Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service Building a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the people we serve is one of my main priorities as...
On a bitterly cold Saturday in January, 200 people from all around the country descended on the National Audit Office in Buckingham Palace Road. We – for I was one...
Keela Shackell-Smith Plans are well underway for the Civil Service’s biggest cross-government International Women’s Day celebration to date, with not one event but six! Last year, we listened to feedback...
...diverse teams perform better, especially those that are trying to solve complex, ambiguous problems. This is because diversity is not just about physical characteristics but about differences in thought, outlook...
Sir Jeremy Heywood Thank you to everyone who completed the 2016 People Survey. In all, 279,708 of you took part, meaning an overall response rate of 65%, the same as...
...for implementing one of the most ambitious government programmes for decades, at the same time as making preparations for Brexit – itself a project virtually unprecedented in our modern peacetime...
...at least one profession - policy, science, economics, operational delivery, comms or investigation, to name only a few. Professions are characterised by required skills at different levels of capability, and...
...to add new perspectives. Out of those who came forward I recruited four people to join the group. Each has served for six months alongside one other volunteer and the...
...happening. And the pace of change is accelerating. Government is adopting new ideas and new ways of working to make everything we do better for users, and more efficient. Technology...
...Name one barrier standing between you and your goal – and how are you smashing through it? Maybe the trickiest thing about the 1.5m homes milestone is timelines. It can...
