...not just desirable, but necessary, in order to drive improvements and better outcomes. This is why the digital and open data agendas have become such a central part of the...
...businesses. Digital should mean there is take-up from a wider pool because it means construction no longer being seen as dominated by trades involving manual labour. Following on from this,...
...now we estimate that for many civil servants Stage 5 is the norm. Why come to the office at all? With workforces distributed by time and location, accessing buildings only...
...groups face barriers to progression and promotion. Women are underrepresented in senior grades, and the proportion of senior BME staff is shockingly low. Although not everybody declares, the same applies...
...develop smarter working practices throughout the Civil Service - which was one of the central themes at last year’s Civil Service Live. TW3 is an attempt to break away from...
...to recruiting and retaining Reservists, allowing them to balance their career and Reserve commitments, alongside their personal lives. Central government aspires to be an exemplary employer. As such, we have...
...diversity One of the important advantages of the secondment programme - which I had not appreciated at first - is that there are no predetermined jobs or vacancies to be...
...via the following links: Procurement Policy Note 03/15: reforms to make public procurement more accessible to SMEs Procurement Policy Note 02/15: Public Contracts Regulations 2015 Transposing the EU procurement directives...
...information and performance metrics that were not readily available from other sources. Since then, it’s evolved significantly to the extent that it now collects around 1,500 data points from over...
Now, more than ever, senior leaders across the Civil Service are acknowledging that physical and mental wellbeing are at the heart of a motivated and productive workforce. One of the...
