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With the general election looming, Geoff Mulgan and Stian Westlake of the innovation think tank Nesta​ say any prime minister who wants to get things done needs to seriously consider changes to the centre of government

Five years ago, Gus O’Donnell was a key player in the delicate transition to a coalition government. Peter Hennessy asks the former cabinet secretary what we might expect after next month’s vote

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg promises above-inflation payrise for public sector from 2019 if party holds "balance of power"

Journalist Jane Dudman assesses the state of Whitehall as it prepares for a new government

Exclusive: Labour peer in charge of preparing party for government says he wants to avoid "civil service wars" associated with creating, scrapping and merging departments, but eyes greater role for Number 10

A learning support assistant tells Sarah Aston about the unintended effects Labour’s inclusion policy is having on mainstream schools over a decade after it was introduced. Illustration by John Levers

Policy-makers around the world are using open data to bolster their development programmes, says Liz Carolan of the Open Data Institute

SNP leader and Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon sets out party's plans to 'change the direction' of next government, as David Cameron pledges yearly Treasury and Cabinet Office review of impact of devolved decisions

Across the world, central and local governments are doing more to share common IT systems. Joshua Chambers looks at global examples of “government as a platform”

Changes to civil service media rules dreamt up in Whitehall look very different to officials on the frontline, argues FDA union general secretary Dave Penman

‘Fragmentation’ and coalition wariness will make post-election talks more ‘complicated’, Institute for Government director Peter Riddell tells UCL event

Naureen Khan, Associate Director, Central Government at techUK outlines techUK's Three Point Plan for better public services

Tackling the cultural and organisational changes needed to optimise and improve digital customer experience across the public sector

Foreign Office announces that its permanent secretary Simon Fraser is to leave Whitehall at the end of July

In the second of CSW's in-depth assessments of the party manifestos, Mark Rowe picks apart the Tory document to find out what the party has in store for the civil service

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg says education budget boost will have 'near religious status' in future coalition talks

Following the Home Office’s introduction of exit checks at ports and border crossings last week, air transport specialist SITA’s Ray Batt discusses how technology can help ensure security while reducing passenger delays

A glance at the new pledges contained in today's Conservative manifesto, as party praises the "impartial, professional and highly capable civil service"

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan says civil service's Fast Stream graduate programme will have 'diversity targets and quotas' to improve black and minority ethnic representation

Lord Kerslake tells the Financial Times pressure on other budgets could be made "more acute" by protection of defence spending

Mark Gibson, former civil servant and outgoing chief executive of the Whitehall and Industry Group (WIG), talks to CSW about secondments, pairing up perm secs with chief execs, and bridging the gap between the public and private sectors

This week on Civil Service World we'll be picking apart the main parties' election manifestos with an in-depth analysis of what they mean for the civil service. Here's a first glance at the new pledges contained in Labour's manifesto, published today by leader Ed Miliband

Conservative party vows to close funding gap identified in NHS Five Year Forward View, but Labour questions source of the extra money