Upskilling for better contract management
...changes to our contracts and suppliers, it is a crucial time to be at the top of our game on contract management. The recent release of the Prompt Payment Code...
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World Mental Health Day - how we can all help to make a difference
As you may have read in Jonathan Jones’s blog post, today is World Mental Health Day, and this year’s theme is mental health in the workplace. Mental health is a...
Empathy, curiosity and openness
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Rt Hon. Matthew Hancock, MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, Posted on:
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...principle of public service reform is curiosity, curiosity about what actually works. Today the best reformers are mining the data for insights, trialling out variations of a policy, discarding the...
The future of digital government
Kevin Cunnington, Director General, Government Digital Service Today, the Minister for the Cabinet Office announced the launch of the Government Transformation Strategy 2017 to 2020. This is a vital step...
What ‘purdah’ means for civil servants
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Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on:
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...before an election or referendum when there are restrictions on the activity of civil servants. More literally, it is also called the 'pre-election period'. For this election, purdah begins today....
Technology and data – it’s all about the people
...and introduced me to binary systems, programmable calculators and early home computers such as the ZX81. In 1981, before going to university, I worked for GEC’s research lab, writing code...
Timeless values in an age of change
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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
...a permanent, meritocratic Civil Service, based on the guiding principles of integrity, honesty, objectivity and political impartiality that we still adhere to today. There have been officials, advisers, administrators and...
Time to Talk Day
...talk today. In my own department – the Government Legal Department – we’re using today to talk about the launch of our own mental health First Aider scheme. Have a...
Top tips in preparation for a new government
...uncertainty Beware of media impact on staff morale Celebrate success of previous policies, address any sense of loss but demand professionalism Reinforce the Civil Service values and code Managing moves...
Different cycles and diverging tracks... How the different parts of the UK can learn from each other
With 24-hour news and social media now an established part of public life, it’s been a very long time since recess was a code-word for relaxation – either for the...