All posts tagged "Institute for Government"

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  Turning the tanker: rebuilding public trust in government

  Over recent years, public trust in politicians and governments has taken a pounding. Last week, some of the key players in the debate over public standards discussed how the new

  • Posted November 27, 2024
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  The heart of the problem: reviving the centre of UK government

  After a series of missteps and a very public turf war inside No 10, new UK prime minister Keir Starmer’s reputation for quiet competence has taken a beating. Former Downing

  • Posted October 22, 2024
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  Set departmental targets to reduce UK civil service staff turnover, says thinktank

  “Ministers have inherited a civil service in urgent need of reform,” says the Institute for Government (IfG) – and last week the thinktank set out ‘20 ways to improve the

  • Posted August 7, 2024
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  UK government to launch attraction strategy for recruitment, a reform idea from Romania, and more

  Welcome to the latest edition of our Management and Workforce Monitor newsletter. This month, we cover insights on attracting and retaining civil service talent and a proposal for a new

  • Posted June 4, 2024
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  UK urged to create ‘Department for the Civil Service’ | US government expands apprenticeships | Milestone public service reform in South Africa

  The latest management and workforce developments in government Hello and welcome to a new Global Government Forum newsletter looking at the latest management and workforce developments in governments around the

  • Posted March 13, 2024
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  Canada reviews public service values; UK’s opposition leader vows to tackle civil service churn: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Canada looks to update public service values and ethics The Canadian public service has released

  • Posted January 11, 2024
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  Third of UK officials looking for jobs outside civil service, FDA survey finds

  Low and stagnant pay is pushing a large number of civil servants to eye alternative career paths, a new survey by the FDA union has revealed. The trade union’s annual

  • Posted November 29, 2023
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  Republicans could politicise 50,000 civil service jobs, US academic warns

  A Republican president would revive Trump’s bid to take powers to dismiss any civil servant involved in policy work, a leading American academic has said at an event on civil

  • Posted July 12, 2023
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  Fiscal fictions: what the UK Budget says – and what it omits

  On Wednesday, the UK government produced a Budget that made no provision for big public sector pay rises; on Thursday, it promised £5bn to striking NHS staff. Matt Ross explains

  • Posted March 17, 2023
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  The UK budget: behind the headlines

  At two events last week, experts picked apart Jeremy Hunt’s Budget – finding heroic optimism, implausible plans, and some hard realities for departments and public servants. Matt Ross listened in

  • Posted November 24, 2022
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