All posts tagged "Civil Service Commission"

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  Developers to share AI safety tests with US government; Canada launches tech talent recruitment platform: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. AI developers to begin sharing safety test results with US government The US federal government

  • Posted February 8, 2024
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  ‘Self-regulation has failed’: former UK Treasury chief backs civil service appointment overhaul

  The former head of the UK Treasury has backed calls for greater external oversight of civil service appointments, warning that the current system of allowing departments to regulate their own

  • Posted November 15, 2021
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  All change at the UK’s Civil Service Commission

  Four new civil service commissioners have been appointed to the independent statutory body that oversees appointments to the UK civil service, and a fifth is being sought to replace outgoing

  • Posted October 5, 2021
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  Crisis response: an interview with Sir Suma Chakrabarti

  Suma Chakrabarti, the former UK permanent secretary and EBRD chief, sees opportunities as well as risks amidst the COVID crisis; but western governments, he warns, are fumbling their response. Matt

  • Posted August 27, 2020
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  Managing a distributed workforce now and beyond COVID-19

  Earlier this year, civil services worldwide found themselves having to transition thousands of employees to working remotely, often with just a few days’ notice. And as panellists explained during a

  • Posted August 11, 2020
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  UK Cabinet secretary ousted as fears grow over politicisation of the civil service

  Sir Mark Sedwill, who has served as Cabinet secretary and head of the UK civil service since 2018, and national security adviser (NSA) since 2017, is to stand down in

  • Posted June 29, 2020
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  FDA union chief slams government’s approach to civil service reform

  The UK civil service reforms being trailed by Tory advisers risk undermining government’s effectiveness while creating “huge destabilisation” at the top of the civil service, the head of the civil

  • Posted January 7, 2020
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  Cummings blog challenged by top Whitehall figures

  Top Whitehall figures – including a former cabinet secretary, a former civil service commissioner and a former head of the civil service, plus the head of the senior civil servants’

  • Posted January 6, 2020
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  Opinion: Labour’s appointment plans say little about civil servants, but much about politicians

  Last week, unnamed Labour sources floated the idea of letting politicians directly appoint departmental leaders. Matt Ross argues that the plan fails to understand either government or management – and

  • Posted November 13, 2019
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  UK civil service to expand ex-offender recruitment programme

  The UK’s Civil Service Commission chief executive, Peter Lawrence, has appealed to colleagues to join a scheme that finds work for ex-prisoners in the civil service. In a blog post

  • Posted September 15, 2019
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