All posts tagged "Levelling Up"

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  Australia publishes new government data and digital strategy; UK to accelerate plans to move 22,000 civil service roles out of London: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Australian government sets out ‘unified blueprint’ for maximising digital and data capabilities The Australian government

  • Posted December 20, 2023
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  The centre cannot hold: the future of UK regional policy

  Successive governments have failed to reverse the UK’s regional inequalities and over-centralisation. At a Strand Group event last week, some of those who’ve tried to do so set out their

  • Posted October 31, 2023
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  People, planet and profit: how can the UK government supercharge the transition to net zero?

  Climate change is one of the world’s biggest and most urgent problems – and tackling it provides a huge economic opportunity. During a webinar hosted by Deloitte, panellists discussed what

  • Posted September 19, 2023
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  Australian Public Service to tap talent outside Canberra

  The Australian Public Service Commission is developing a strategy that would reduce the need for government employees to work in the capital, as part of its mission to become a

  • Posted May 28, 2023
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  ‘The British civil service is relatively insular’: GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with political scientist Colin Talbot

  A new Global Government Forum podcast is out featuring professor Colin Talbot – author of the compellingly titled Whitehall watching: reflections on innovation, inertia and ineptitude in British government –

  • Posted December 1, 2022
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  US federal staff to be deployed to rural communities to boost economic opportunities

  US president Joe Biden has launched a programme to deploy federal government employees to rural areas to help local leaders access the resources they need to boost their communities.  The

  • Posted April 28, 2022
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  If Levelling Up is to work, then it must meet the needs of a green economy

  Later today, the UK Government will publish its Spring Budget, hot on the heels of last month’s Levelling Up White Paper. Many questions remain about how levelling up will be

  • Posted March 23, 2022
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  Levelling up lessons: how to make regional development work

  Levelling up has become the UK government’s top priority, but it is not alone in considering how to boost its overlooked cities and regions. Jeffrey Matsu, CIPFA’s chief economist, shares

  • Posted February 22, 2022
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  APS plans to centralise recruitment, Singapore public service’s attrition rate on the rise, and Belgium to investigate four-day working week for federal employees: management & workforce round-up

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of all the news you need to know but might have missed Singapore public service resignation rate increasing, says minister Singapore’s public service has seen

  • Posted February 17, 2022
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  UK chancellor announces largest departmental spend increase ‘this century’

  Spending by UK government departments is to grow by £150bn (US$206bn) over the period to 2024-25. UK chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the increase in his Budget and Spending Review today,

  • Posted October 27, 2021
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