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Mission Moments: Cutting Through Complexity: How We're Backing Britain's Businesses to Grow

Manisha Gohil

Mission Moments: Cutting Through Complexity: How We're Backing Britain's Businesses to Grow

From 70 stakeholder sessions to 1,200 partner inductions, one civil servant shares how the new Business Growth Service is turning government support for SMEs from a maze into a motorway – and why every simplified application brings us closer to …

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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What we've learned from Policy School

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 15 March 2016 - Categories: Better policymaking, Civil Service Leaders
Group shot with ten men and women in front of projection screen, with two women (centre front) holding flowchart.

Jeremy Heywood applauds the results of the latest Cabinet Office Policy School for civil servants.

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My apprenticeship route to Permanent Secretary

Posted by: Jon Thompson, Posted on: 15 March 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders

Jon Thompson kicks off National Apprenticeship Week by explaining what being an apprentice did for his career.

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Staying true to yourself

Posted by: Wendy Hardaker, Posted on: 11 March 2016 - Categories: Leadership Statement
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Wendy Hardaker won the 2015 Civil Service Award for Leadership. But she explains why telling her story as a carer, and raising awareness of carer-related issues in the workplace, are just as important to her.

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