All posts tagged "Permanent Secretary"

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  Shifting pair bonds: Canada’s former public service chief shares his top tips for working with ministers

  In his new book, Michael Wernick shares insights gathered over 13 years in the top echelons of the Canadian public service. He talks to Mia Hunt about one chapter of

  • Posted February 3, 2022
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  UK perm secs reject calls for chief risk officer, Cypriot MPs approve civil service hiring reforms, and US feds gain further discounted education: management & workplace news roundup

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of all the news you need to know but might have missed Permanent secretaries baulk at calls for chief risk officer in UK government Alex

  • Posted January 20, 2022
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  Ministers should set UK departmental leaders’ goals, says reform commission

  The renewal of UK permanent secretaries’ contracts should be based upon their performance against goals set out by ministers, a think tank has advised in a report backed by Cabinet

  • Posted May 25, 2021
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  UK appointments regulator condemns briefings against civil servants

  First civil service commissioner Ian Watmore condemned briefings against civil servants today. “I absolutely, absolutely hate it,” he told an online evidence session for the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs

  • Posted March 16, 2021
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  ‘An iconoclastic government’: former DEXEU chief Philip Rycroft on threats to the UK and its democracy

  Philip Rycroft ran both the UK’s Brexit department, and Whitehall’s relations with the devolved governments. Now the former permanent secretary is speaking out: the Johnson government, he says, is ‘challenging

  • Posted October 16, 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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  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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  UK launches new search for digital chief

  The UK has begun a recruitment drive for a government chief digital officer (GCDO), Cabinet Office permanent secretary and chief operating officer of the civil service, Alex Chisholm, revealed in

  • Posted August 24, 2020
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  UK appoints head of merging foreign and aid departments

  Sir Philip Barton has been appointed permanent under-secretary at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Barton will head up the new department, which is to be formed next

  • Posted August 4, 2020
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  Role of No10 permanent secretary returns after eight-year gap

  Simon Case, former principal private secretary to Theresa May and private secretary to Prince William, has been appointed as Number 10 permanent secretary, with responsibility for the implementation and delivery

  • Posted May 22, 2020
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