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Civil Service job share and flexible working – where we are now

Posted by: Brian Stanislas MBE, Posted on: 3 April 2020 - Categories: A great place to work, Diversity and inclusion, Year of Inclusion
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Brian Stanislas rounds up recent activities and developments in flexible working and the Civil Service Job Share Finder.

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A call to action on Anti-Slavery Day

Posted by: Kim Ann Williamson, MBE, Posted on: 18 October 2019 - Categories: A Brilliant Civil Service
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On Anti-Slavery Day, Kim Ann Williamson, a civil servant active in the anti-slavery movement, says there are things we can all do to learn about and fight against modern slavery.

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Six lessons I've learnt through Team Chaffinch and the Junior Leaders Academy

Posted by: Civil Service Blog Team and Gail Peck, Posted on: 26 June 2019 - Categories: A Brilliant Civil Service, Health & Wellbeing
Gail Peck standing in front of a banner with the legend A Brilliant Civil Service

After two years promoting health and wellbeing in the Civil Service through Team Chaffinch, its outgoing leader, Gail Peck, sets out the six most important things she's learnt.

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Birmingham revisited

Posted by: Bernadette Kelly, Posted on: 9 March 2018 - Categories: A Brilliant Civil Service, Civil Service Leaders
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Born-and-bred Brummie Bernadette Kelly explains why she now sees the city in a different light.

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Changing horizons, raising aspiration

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 30 March 2017 - Categories: A Brilliant Civil Service, Civil Service Leaders
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Jeremy Heywood reviews a groundbreaking event attended by over 700 school students and 230 Civil Service volunteers to raise young people's career aspirations.

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What kind of civil servant do I want to be?

Posted by: John Haskey and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 22 July 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
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...routes into the Civil Service and the vast range of jobs civil servants do. Students at the Year 9 event What do civil servants do? As the students arrived at...

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Good leaders stand up for fairness

Posted by: Dr June Milligan, Posted on: 14 July 2015 - Categories: Leadership Statement
Civil Service Reform pledge card on which a civil servant has written - "To develop as a leader"

What do we most want our senior leaders to do? The pledge made by Dr June Milligan, a director-general in the Welsh Government, after co-hosting a Leadership Statement discovery session, was both a personal commitment and a call to action.

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Winning a Civil Service Award – recognition and responsibility

Posted by: Kathie Bates, Posted on: 2 July 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service

Civil Service Local North West took the 2014 Civil Service Award for Excellence in Civil Service Reform. Kathie Bates explains what the award meant to the team and why they are determined to maintain the standards they have set.

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#AskCivilService: Richard Hill talks volunteering

Posted by: Russell Barnes, Posted on: 16 January 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service

What are the benefits of volunteering and where's best to begin? Civil Service Local south West & Wales' Richard Hill, who won this year's Civil Service Volunteering Award, took to...

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Civil Service Awards 2014: 3 days to go

Posted by: Russell Barnes, Posted on: 17 November 2014 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Civil Service Awards 2014

...awards ceremony, taking place at the Foreign Office’s Lancaster House in London on 19 November. We spoke to a few of them about how it felt to make it this...

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