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Government is changing shape. Departments have reorganised, powers are moving to mayors & new approaches to procurement are emerging.
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Applications are open to individuals and teams of two to five people in the UK working in government, legislatures and public bodies at all levels of seniority
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What can action taken in Sweden and the Netherlands teach us about social value in procurement?
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MPs seek answers on why targets and timelines for the greening government commitments have been allowed to drift and expire
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Civil servant found guilty of nine counts of fraud for holding multiple full-time jobs with government departments and other public sector organisations at the same time
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"Small adjustments to a variety of components will interact to create huge increases in momentum. Each one is completely achievable, at very little cost and without the use of external consultants"
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Helen MacNamara appointed as chair of UK Community Foundations, a movement of organisations focused on place-based philanthropy
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PCS said the Scottish Government is "replacing trust with surveillance, flexibility with rigid targets and constructive employment relations with the threat of disciplinary action"
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"Most of the priorities the civil service is now being asked to deliver – AI adoption, productivity, joined‑up services, faster delivery under tighter budgets – depend on people who can hold more than one professional lens at once"
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Iain Murray, director of public financial management at Cipfa, sees the fiscal devolution reforms as a first step towards some “potentially quite exciting and quite significant changes"
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JP Marks says measures have been implemented to better protect future digital and data innovations
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Committee “unconvinced” Whitehall’s “siloed policy-making architecture” is fit for purpose
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NEW: Interview with ex-HMRC second perm sec Angela MacDonald for our Trailblazing Women series
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Antonia Romeo has added a commitment to streamline the state and devolve power away from Westminster to her official work goals
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"Bringing policymakers closer to people who understand delivery could improve decisions. However, a critical question is what authority will those regions actually hold?"
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Experts give their verdict on the fiscal devolution roadmap
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Sarah Healey said "experience shows that attempting to change these systems very quickly tends not to be very successful"
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Staff in regional NHS England teams will not join DHSC and will instead be supported by a new temporary Special Health Authority
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