This year the Civil Service Working Through Cancer Network will show support for World Cancer Day on 4 February by focusing our events on the unique human story behind every cancer diagnosis, and how by uniting we are stronger and …
...opened today for this year's Civil Service Awards. DWP and the CPS have made the early running with nominations, but you've got until 25 July to get yours in. If...
The Prime Minister presenting the Growth Award to the Britain is GREAT campaign team The Civil Service Awards celebrate and promote excellence across government. They are an opportunity to reward...
HM Treasury's Daniel Poxon became a dementia friend for both profession and personal reasons, but the scheme has become a useful tool in his day-to-day role organising volunteering activities in the department.
Every year, civil servants are tasked with delivering some of the UK’s most ambitious and transformative projects. Even a very quick scan of the Major Projects Authority (MPA’s) second annual report, published today, would leave you in little doubt of …
...it can count towards one of your five learning days a year. Quite right too. CS Live shouldn’t be about a day out of the office for the sake of...
...by our predecessors for standing still while the world around them was changed by social, technological and economic factors. If we are to build on this position of strength and...
When the Government Office network was abolished, and we both applied for the same position in the newly created Local Intelligence Team in the office of Civil Society (Cabinet Office), we were offered the post on a job-share basis. We are part of a team of 9, with 1 colleague based in each of the other 7 English regions and we have an outward facing role, engaging with stakeholders from voluntary and community sector organisations, local authorities and business across the whole of the South West.
...to form a single Board reflecting the wider membership; Renaming the Profession to reflect the more holistic nature – Government Property Profession; Formalising membership through registration; Acting as a single...
On Monday 24 February the DWP Digital Academy started its first course at Fulham Jobcentre in London.
The Academy has been set up to ensure that DWP has a coherent programme of activity to develop and grow our own in house capability to build effective digital services.
My husband and I have been job-sharing the role of Ambassador in Armenia for the past two years. We decided to use the format pioneered by the first couple to job-share the head of post role – four months on/off – and have found this has worked very well, for us, for the Embassy team and for our wider external contacts. It is a long enough period to see a lot of decisions/ business through and to (re)establish yourself as the person in the hot seat; but it is not so long that you lose touch with the key issues or the key people.
