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Mission Moments: Cutting Through Complexity: How We're Backing Britain's Businesses to Grow

Manisha Gohil

Mission Moments: Cutting Through Complexity: How We're Backing Britain's Businesses to Grow

From 70 stakeholder sessions to 1,200 partner inductions, one civil servant shares how the new Business Growth Service is turning government support for SMEs from a maze into a motorway – and why every simplified application brings us closer to …

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60-second leadership interview: Thomas Cleaver, UK Visas & Immigration

Posted by: Thomas Cleaver, Posted on: 23 November 2015 - Categories: Leadership Statement
Head and shoulders of Thomas Cleaver

In our latest interview around the Leadership Statement, Thomas Cleaver talks about his work with the People's Forum at UK Visas & Immigration to improve leadership and address the results of the People Survey.

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Parliament, the legislative process and the secrets of good teamwork

Posted by: David Cook, Posted on: 20 November 2015 - Categories: Better policymaking, Our Civil Service
Parliament and government buildings viewed from elevated position.

To mark Parliament Week, Second Parliamentary Counsel David Cook explains the crucial role of teamwork by civil servants in helping bills to and through Parliament.

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Putting trans voices on the a:gender

Posted by: Jacqui Gavin and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 19 November 2015 - Categories: Diversity and inclusion, Our Civil Service
Jacqui Gavin

...of how they may characterise themselves. This meeting led to the first Transgender Day of Remembrance event in the Castro district of San Francisco. Every year since then, 20 November...

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Four steps to greater staff engagement at DCMS

Posted by: Sue Owen, DCMS Permanent Secretary, and Civil Service LGB&TI Champion, Posted on: 18 November 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders

With the 2015 People Survey showing DCMS in the top four departments for staff engagement, Permanent Secretary Sue Owen looks at what the department has been doing to improve its standing.

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Equality and fairness... why do I bother?

Posted by: Kevin Oliver, Posted on: 17 November 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Group of men and women talking in a conference room

Kevin Oliver of HM Passport Office doesn't belong to any particular minority group, but he is a tireless campaigner for equality and inclusion. He explains why.

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People Survey 2015 – you tell us where we must be better

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 16 November 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, Our Civil Service

Sir Jeremy Heywood looks at the results of the 2015 Civil Service People Survey and where we need to improve.

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#GivingTuesday - make it the start of helping others

Posted by: Rob Wilson, MP, Minister for Civil Society, Posted on: 16 November 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders

Minister for Civil Society Rob Wilson encourages us to support #GivingTuesday and considers all the ways we can get involved in giving and volunteering.

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Civil Service Awards 2015: Storify

Posted by: Russell Barnes, Posted on: 13 November 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Civil Service Award winners 2015

The tenth Civil Service Awards took place at Buckingham Palace this year. Celebrating great public service work that is changing lives for the better in the UK, this year's winners were also presented to The Queen.

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"An honourable calling" - The Queen visits Marsham Street to salute the work of civil servants

Posted by: Civil Service Blog Team and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 12 November 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Mark Sedwill, Perm Sec Home Office, and The Queen

...work of civil servants. Here is the speech the she made at Marsham Street. "To mark the tenth anniversary of the Civil Service Awards, I have come here today to...

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Remembering the civil servants who fell in the First World War

Posted by: Simon Holder and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 11 November 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Memorial column, with urn atop, flanked by two flags, and arch, part of Somerset House, behind

...of Cambrai, where it suffered heavy casualties. It was again in action on the Somme in 1918, and its final engagement of the war was at Tournai in Belgium in...

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