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Ministers are drafting new laws so the Government can continue imposing sanctions on foreign countries after Brexit, it has been reported.

BT has launched Tech Factor 2017, a competition inviting schools to show how they would use technology to help pupils prepare for the challenges of the evolving jobs market

Institute for Government report draws lessons from global take-up of Blair-era innovation

Public Accounts Committee says Better Care Fund failed to meet goals

Public Accounts Committee says the Department for Education lacks grip on school places plan

Announcement comes as Labour announces Jeremy Corbyn has held talks with Sir Jeremy Heywood

Spending watchdog finds departments are getting better value for money from their estates, but warns plans to share and centrally manage property are not making headway

Policy for 2017-18 also sets out latest steps taken to end progression pay in Whitehall

Momentous life events remind us why the last thing we need is politicians playing fast and loose with our public services

Commissioners will oversee recruitment into the civil service and sit on selection boards for top posts

 

New pay guidance for the civil service shows why the government must adopt a more sophisticated approach to pay and reward

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People

Civil servant who led Troubled Families programme to leave Whitehall to take up roles in voluntary sector and academia

Former Cabinet Office minister details plan of action for newly-launched drive to free industry from unnecessary EU bureaucracy

An epiphanal moment in Saudi Arabia prompted Sherin Aminossehe to swap life at a major global architecture practice for the civil service, where she now leads the Government Property Unit. She spreads the word to Colin Marrs

Review suggests priorities and spending decisions should be “more explicitly informed” by the return they provide on investment

National Audit Office investigation finds £120m-plus spent in south-east has so far led to just one train operator introducing flexible part-time season tickets

Move will free the institution from public sector ownership, says minister

BT, TechHub and the Cabinet Office have announced the winners of their Securing the Nation competition at an event at the iconic BT Tower

Insolvency Service investigator Claire Entwistle recounts the impressions and insights she picked up while shadowing Louise Haigh MP

Prospect calls for end to 1% pay cap as well as independent review of Whitehall wage levels

Tory policy guru launches cross-party initiative to consider how post-Brexit regulations can support the economy, with support from former cabinet secretary Lord Butler and business leaders

Rail Group DG takes up post at the Department for Transport, increasing number of female departmental chiefs to five