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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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What the Civil Service story tells us about leadership

Posted by: John Pullinger, Posted on: 30 March 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, Leadership Statement
Cartoon depicting Evelyn Sharp and Alan Turing

John Pullinger looks at what we can learn about leadership from the history of the Civil Service and shares his pledge as a leader.

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Celebrating excellence in operational delivery

Posted by: Operational Delivery Profession, Posted on: 24 March 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service, Professions
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The Operational Delivery Profession celebrates all the nominees for the 2015 Dame Lesley Strathie Operational Excellence Award, underlining the sheer range of work they cover.

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How you can 'inspire the future'

Posted by: Civil Service Blog Team, Posted on: 24 March 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
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In announcing a new Social Mobility Plan, Minister for the Cabinet Office Matt Hancock urged civil servants to volunteer just an hour a year to inspire young people. Here's what it involves.

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An action plan for social mobility

Posted by: Rt Hon. Matthew Hancock, MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, Posted on: 24 March 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
Man talking seated at table to three schoolchildren

Minister for the Cabinet Office Matt Hancock introduces the Talent Action Plan 2016, including a Social Mobility Plan with an opportunity for civil servants to 'inspire the future'.

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Social mobility in the Civil Service - our next steps

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 24 March 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
Front page and chapter two (part of) Talent Action Plan 2016

As the Talent Action Plan 2016 is published, Jeremy Heywood looks at progress on removing the barriers to success for under-represented groups and where we go from here.

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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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