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From Promise to Reality: Our School Nursery Journey

From Promise to Reality: Our School Nursery Journey

Jessica Crawley and Jasmine Hussain joined the DfE because they believed in its power to change lives — and now they’re seeing that in action, helping to build and expand 3,000 nurseries across England's schools. Let them tell you how …

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Courses to improve your project delivery skills

Posted by: CS Learning and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 20 January 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Learning, Programme and project delivery
Posters in Cabinet Office advertising Project Delivery week

Delivering successful projects and programmes is one of the 4 priority capability areas set out in the Civil Service Reform plan. Some skills are already in place at expert and...

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The benefits of the High Potential Secondment Programme

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 20 January 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, More skilled
Sir Jeremy talking at the event

...Plan as we know that civil servants can learn a lot from spending time in the private sector and that the Civil Service can really benefit from bringing in some...

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#AskCivilService: Richard Hill talks volunteering

Posted by: Russell Barnes, Posted on: 16 January 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service

What are the benefits of volunteering and where's best to begin? Civil Service Local south West & Wales' Richard Hill, who won this year's Civil Service Volunteering Award, took to...

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5 ways to find the right volunteering opportunity for you

Posted by: Ed Pikett, Charlotte Tucker and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 16 January 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Civil Service Local North West staff at the Brandon Trust

...us is entitled to at least 1 day of special leave to spend supporting a community activity that matters to you. Why volunteer? Volunteering can provide a great development opportunity...

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Civil Service priorities for 2015

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 15 January 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
Sir Jeremy Heywood at Civil Service Live 2014

...that show how individual civil servants are successfully taking forward key elements of the reform programme. This work has been jointly led by the Minister for Cabinet Office, Francis Maude,...

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Diversity and Inclusion: Are we making progress?

Posted by: Sir Simon Fraser and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 15 January 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, Diversity and inclusion
Diversity Award Winners

Sir Simon Fraser looks at the next steps we need to take as an organisation to address the comments raised in the updated Talent Action Plan.

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I'm a civil servant and I... help others to help others

Posted by: Richard Hill and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 13 January 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service

...a long story! Six months ago, I was seconded to Civil Service Local in South West & Wales as the Community Engagement Manager. This role was a dream come true...

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The Smith Commission

Posted by: Sir Peter Housden and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 13 January 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
Smith Commission front cover

...(amazing) facts first, then some implications. The weeks since then have seen the appointment of Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister and the announcement of a new Cabinet, our Programme for...

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Where do I put my cornflakes?

Posted by: Simon Morys and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 12 January 2015 - Categories: Smarter working
Close-up of a bowl of cornflakes

Picture credit: Justin Pinkney under Creative Commons People think smarter working is all about hot-desking and wonder where they'll keep their morning cornflakes, but it’s not really about that. Or...

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Digital by default is coming to our internal services

Posted by: Olivia Neal and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 9 January 2015 - Categories: More digital
Office sign saying 'Service Standard'

Across the Civil Service, teams have been using the Digital by Default Service Standard to help them build digital services of a consistently high quality. The service standard has 26...

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