All posts tagged "defra"

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  UK government releases research and innovation framework for climate change adaptation

  The UK government has identified research and innovation challenges across 11 sectors that will need to be addressed in a bid to drive collaborative action on climate change adaptation. The

  • Posted April 15, 2025
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  UK civil servants make bid for four-day working week

  Civil servants in the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have launched a campaign to work a four-day week. Staff at the department have called for a

  • Posted December 12, 2023
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  UK civil service strikes threaten borders and ports over Christmas; Australian ethics index reveals drop in public trust in government: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Read more: Minister vows to revive ‘mothballed’ APS reform agenda UK civil servants plan

  • Posted November 24, 2022
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  UK Data Challenge launches to unearth and develop staff ideas

  The UK has launched an initiative to gather civil servants’ ideas for how to make better use of data, tapping into the workforce’s expertise to kick off a new set

  • Posted March 30, 2021
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  Moving mindsets and offices: how to successfully relocate civil servants

  The UK government has pledged to move 22,000 civil service jobs out of London by 2030 as part of its ‘levelling up’ agenda. At a recent webinar, experts discussed the

  • Posted March 29, 2021
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  Overcoming uncertainty: former environment and Brexit chief Clare Moriarty

  Following the 2016 referendum, Clare Moriarty ran the environment department then the UK’s EU exit operations. She tells Matt Ross how a focus on human nature helped her to lead

  • Posted November 4, 2020
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  Clare Moriarty and David Sterling recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours

  Two recently-retired UK civil service chiefs, Clare Moriarty and David Sterling, have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Moriarty – who’s quoted in GGF’s latest Brexit analysis – left

  • Posted October 12, 2020
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  Use of earth observation data in UK government to be “mainstream” within a decade

  The use of “earth observation” technology is already common in government and will become mainstream within ten years, according to a UK government chief scientist. Earth observation data is gathered

  • Posted February 6, 2019
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