Ken Thomson is the Director General for Constitution and External Affairs in the Scottish Government. As a member of the Leadership and Learning Board, he has been involved in shaping...
...some training for your team, please email CSL at policy.profession@policyprofession.gov.uk. Throughout the year we are organising a series of Parliamentary Insights events for civil servants. Some of these are open...
...innovators. There is no single correct answer to these questions. However, by hearing what is working and what is not in other countries (including, for example, learning more about Free...
...But it hasn’t all quite landed as we wanted – yet. For example, the new fully digital Tax Free Childcare service having some teething problems in its opening months. Trying...
...for International Trade (DIT), we aim to be an exemplar of a 21st-century department, pioneering a new way of working. We have an outward-facing agenda – promoting free trade –...
...Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations”. In 1931, the Statute of Westminster formalised arrangements that applied to Canada without the need for ratification (which...
...and promoting the free online Commercial Awareness course on Civil Service Learning. This course is suitable for all civil servants and takes two and a half hours to complete. Commercial...
...for commercial capability and contract management) will explain why commercial awareness is important for all of us, and what this involves. You can register online for the webinar, which is...
Sir Jeremy Heywood From 16 to 20 April we welcomed world leaders, foreign ministers and thousands of delegates from across the Commonwealth to London for the bi-annual Commonwealth Heads of...
...taking stock and building on what we’ve already achieved. I’ve just had my ‘360’ for my end-of-year appraisal. It’s got lots of encouraging messages but equally some good pointers for...
