Volunteering to help others and our own skills
...I am also a trustee of the HALO Trust (the international demining charity) and TeamRubicon UK (a new disaster relief charity). I was motivated to take on these volunteering opportunities...
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Virtual coffees, real connections with real people
...up a conversation with someone new while waiting for a tea to brew, the joy of meeting new people from across teams, Directorates, and Departments has been much harder to...
Civil Service Learning – what’s it all about then?
...like this has felt exciting, and the secondment was definitely a good move. I’ve enjoyed learning new skills but also having existing skills recognised anew by a different audience. I’d...
My Life, My Career
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Clare Nasir, Author, Meteorologist, Climate Communicator and Mostly Climate podcast producer and TV broadcaster, Posted on:
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A great place to work, A Modern Civil Service, A Skilled Civil Service, An Innovative Civil Service
...touching on latest global weather, climate news and forecasts. We also reinstated the original Mostly Weather podcast, a longer show based on evergreen weather content, lead by our very own...
Happy World Humanist Day
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Liz Lutgendorff, Liz Lutgendorff, Lead Insight and Analysis Advisor, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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A great place to work
...more personal reflections on someone’s life, including more poetry, literature and secular music rather than sermons and hymns. Humanism isn't new In a nutshell, Humanists believe that people have one...
The Civil Service Fast Stream vs Oxford: which is more socially diverse?
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Charlotte Dring and Russell Barnes, Posted on:
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Diversity and inclusion, Our Civil Service
...Secretary at the Ministry of Defence - was announced as the Civil Service’s new social mobility champion. Both spoke passionately about their commitment to helping people from a wide range...
Civil servants in the 2016 New Year's Honours list
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Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on:
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Civil Service Leaders, Our Civil Service
Sir Jeremy Heywood Many congratulations to all those civil servants whose dedicated public service was recognised in the New Year's Honours List. The range of recipients brilliantly illustrates the great...
Raising disability awareness and breaking down barriers
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Sir Philip Rutnam, Home Office Permanent Secretary, and Civil Service Disability Champion, Posted on:
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Civil Service Leaders
...the United Nations General Assembly. Its aim is to promote an understanding of disability issues, galvanise action that addresses barriers to access for people with disabilities, and draw attention to...
New Master’s degree to support better policymaking
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Chris Wormald, Posted on:
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Better policymaking, Civil Service Leaders, Professions
...to have the skills and tools to do the best possible job. New approaches to policymaking, the increasing availability of data, and the development of evidence-based and behavioural insight techniques...
International Week of the Deaf People 2021
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Ben Jaab, Posted on:
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A Modern Civil Service, A Skilled Civil Service, An Innovative Civil Service
...departments,” which may prevent colleagues from taking on new challenges. Most concerning was feedback around visibility, with one colleague sadly explaining that “It is embarrassing and humiliating to keep asking...