Home Office – Civil Service

International Women’s Day: unfinished business

Elisabeth Ukanah, 12 March 2020 - Diversity and inclusion, Year of Inclusion

To mark International Women's Day 2020, the Home Office invited women leaders from the worlds of sport, finance, publishing and the media to explore how we can make gender equality a reality.

Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Digital Award

Civil Service Blog Team, 22 January 2020 - A Brilliant Civil Service, Improved outcomes

The award-winning team behind HM Passport Office's Digital Customer Service replaced a complex, multi-section paper form with an online application designed to make application easier, quicker and more accurate.

Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Public Service Award

Civil Service Blog Team, 21 January 2020 - A Brilliant Civil Service

We kick off our Week of Winners coverage of the recipients of 2019 Civil Service Awards with the Home Office's Midlands Intake Unit, winners of the Public Service Award.

Six steps towards greater inclusion

Martin Vernon, 7 June 2019 - Diversity and inclusion

Reading a recent post here on inclusion in the Civil Service inspired the Home Office's Martin Vernon to give his personal reflections on how we can all challenge ourselves to be more inclusive in the workplace.

Working together for the benefit of all

Melanie Dawes and Jason Ghaboos, 21 April 2019 - A great place to work, Diversity and inclusion

Read the reflections of the Home Office's Jason Ghaboos after his year on secondment at Cambridge University researching the power of engaging men in gender equality.

Not a stereotypical apprentice

Alex Sutton, 6 March 2019 - A Brilliant Civil Service, A great place to work

Doing an apprenticeship has opened new doors for the Home Office's Alex Sutton.

Personal disability stories: Part 7 – Seonaid's story

Sir Philip Rutnam, Home Office Permanent Secretary, and Civil Service Disability Champion, 2 November 2018 - A Brilliant Civil Service, Civil Service Leaders, Diversity and inclusion, Health & Wellbeing

Marking the anniversary of the Disability Confident scheme, this story focuses on how one person's experience of cancer led her to create a new staff support network for those diagnosed with the disease, their carers and colleagues.