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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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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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From 'dragons' den' to California: the trip of a lifetime for Innovation Challenge winners

Posted by: Chris Felton, Posted on: 13 May 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
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As we launch the 2016 Civil Service Live Innovation Challenge, one of last year's winners describes their project and the impact the prize has had on their work to curb the incidence of an abhorrent crime.

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Why mental health awareness is everyone's business

Posted by: Natalie Ceeney, Posted on: 13 May 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
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With Mental Health Awareness Week starting on 16 May, Natalie Ceeney talks about her own experience of depression and why we all need to be more aware of mental health issues.

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Opportunities for all in the Government Legal Department

Posted by: Jonathan Jones, Posted on: 12 May 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
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Jonathan Jones says giving staff more flexible working options is helping the Government Legal Department recruit and retain the talented people it needs.

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The PACAC experience

Posted by: John Pullinger, Posted on: 12 May 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
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UK National Statistician John Pullinger describes the experience of giving oral evidence at a recent hearing of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee - and how civil servants helped him prepare for it.

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New award for customer service - let’s hear it for the 70%!

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 11 May 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
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As the categories for the 2016 Civil Service Awards are announced, Jeremy Heywood reveals what civil servants said they wanted to see in the list.

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The Innovation Challenge is back at Civil Service Live 2016!

Posted by: Simon Holder, Posted on: 11 May 2016 - Categories: More digital
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There's another chance for civil servants to win a once-in-a-lifetime learning and development trip to California in the Civil Service Live 2016 Innovation Challenge.

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10th-anniversary Diversity & Inclusion Awards – tell us who's making a difference

Posted by: Sue Owen, DCMS Permanent Secretary, and Civil Service LGB&TI Champion, Posted on: 9 May 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders

Civil Service Diversity & Inclusion Champion Sue Owen urges civil servants to mark the anniversary by setting a new record for nominations.

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Walking to well-being

Posted by: Elizabeth Dymond, Posted on: 6 May 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
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After 16 years in the Civil Service, Elizabeth Dymond is now a director of The Charity for Civil Servants and about to take part in its biggest fundraising event, the Walking Challenge – and you can join her.

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Devolution and you – the Scotland Act 2016 and the fiscal framework

Posted by: UK Governance & Devolution Team, Posted on: 6 May 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
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Moving at speed from the Smith Commission recommendations, to a Bill, to an Act has been "a challenge and an historic achievement" for the hundreds of civil servants involved in the devolution of new powers to Scotland.

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