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World Cancer Day: our journeys are unique, but we thrive when united

World Cancer Day: our journeys are unique, but we thrive when united

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 …

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Mutual respect and trust - the secret of successful job sharing

Posted by: Civil Service Job Share Network, Posted on: 23 March 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Two ladies one with glasses (right)

May El Komy and Nerissa Steel explain why being in a job share gives them confidence they can do justice to their job and have a comfortable work/life balance.

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Racial discrimination - shake it off and step up!

Posted by: Iris Anderson, Posted on: 23 March 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
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Iris Anderson tells how academics, senior leaders, civil servants and a rapper and poet came together to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - and the message they sent out.

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My priorities as Civil Service Disability Champion

Posted by: Sir Philip Rutnam, Home Office Permanent Secretary, and Civil Service Disability Champion, Posted on: 22 March 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
Graphic showing increase in proportion of disabled civil servants 2006 and 2015

One year after being made Disability Champion of the Civil Service, Philip Rutnam reviews his commitments and asks civil servants to hold him to account.

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Working across administrations – the shape of things to come

Posted by: Leslie Evans and Robert Devereux, Posted on: 21 March 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders

Scottish Government and DWP Permanent Secretaries Leslie Evans and Robert Devereux look at the future of joint working under devolution.

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Devolution is genuinely fascinating (even without the offer of cake)

Posted by: Belinda Volans, Posted on: 18 March 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
A sponge cake inside a red circle cut by a diagonal red line

Do you know which was the first legislative body to have equal numbers of male and female members? Find out this and other fascinating facts thrown up by Devolution Learning Week.

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Ten tips for leading organisational change

Posted by: Peter Vowles, Posted on: 18 March 2016 - Categories: Leadership Statement, Leading and managing change
'Engagement' graphic

Pete Vowles passes on some of the practical lessons he's learned helping to lead a change programme at the Department for International Development.

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The Budget and the Civil Service

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 17 March 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
Graphic with legend "Budget 2016" and image of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's red Budget box

Jeremy Heywood looks at the Budget and how it underlines the Civil Service's existing priorities.

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Apprentices who remind us why we do the job

Posted by: Mark Lowcock, Posted on: 17 March 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders

DFID Permanent Secretary Mark Lowcock reflects on what apprentices bring to the Civil Service.

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Social mobility - more support to progress

Posted by: Geraldine Clement, Posted on: 16 March 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Group of school-leavers

Geraldine Clement welcomes two new staff networks to support social mobility - support that, coming from a lower socio-economic background, she would have welcomed in her early Civil Service career.

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Devolution: should I worry?

Posted by: Andy Robinson, Posted on: 15 March 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Devolution and You guide seen behind blurred bars

This is Devolution Learning Week. As Andy Robinson from the Department of Transport says, being more informed can allay any fears about what it means for you.

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