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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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Shared Parental Leave: a dad’s experience

Posted by: Steve Marshall, Posted on: 23 May 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
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Steve Marshall of MOJ Digital recounts his experience - the joys and challenges - of shared parental leave and why he'd recommend it to expectant parents.

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Banging the drum for policy-making across the UK

Posted by: Graham Pendlebury, Posted on: 20 May 2016 - Categories: Better policymaking
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Graham Pendlebury hails the success of the first four-nation 'policy lab' event in the UK, and looks forward to repeating the experience.

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In praise of vulnerability

Posted by: Clare Moriarty, Posted on: 20 May 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
Speech bubble "Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength." Sigmund Freud

Clare Moriarty, Defra Permanent Secretary, on why vulnerability is a strength for effective leaders.

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Supporting good mental health in the workplace

Posted by: Rupert McNeil, Government Chief People Officer, Civil Service Human Resources, Cabinet Office, Posted on: 19 May 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
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Chief People Officer Rupert McNeil looks back at Mental Health Awareness Week, at the support available to civil servants who may suffer from mental ill-health, and what more we can all do.

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Tell us about your best learning experiences

Posted by: Civil Service Learning team, Posted on: 18 May 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Learning
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People learn in different ways. In Learning at Work Week, read about the best learning experiences of some of your colleagues - and tell us about yours.

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Ten tips for looking after your mental health

Posted by: Sir Philip Rutnam, Home Office Permanent Secretary, and Civil Service Disability Champion, Posted on: 17 May 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
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In Mental Health Awareness week, Philip Rutnam draws our attention to ten practical tips for safeguarding our mental health.

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The FCO – "less Ferrero Rocher, more Jack Bauer"?

Posted by: Sir Simon McDonald, Posted on: 17 May 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
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FCO Permanent Secretary Simon McDonald looks at the findings of the Fletcher Report on the future of the FCO.

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The MOOC - back again and building commercial capability in government

Posted by: Douglas Macbeth, Posted on: 17 May 2016 - Categories: Commercial skills

Douglas Macbeth welcomes the return of the government-supported Massive Open Online Course in contract management, of which he is Co-Academic Lead.

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Nominations for Civil Service Awards 2016 now open

Posted by: Sir Richard Heaton, Posted on: 16 May 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
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Richard Heaton, the new Civil Service Awards Champion, announces the opening of nominations for the 2016 awards - and sets us all a target.

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Female leaders in the Civil Service

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 13 May 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
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Jeremy Heywood responds to a blog post by Jill Rutter of the Institute for Government on the representation of women at senior levels in the Civil Service.

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