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For the last five years, Civil Service World has rounded off December by publishing a set of articles written by permanent secretaries and other key figures. This year, Matt Ross finds perm secs focusing on skills, Scotland, global threats – and the creeping advance of Xmas

Sir Jeremy Heywood

Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service

Offender management and rehabilitation services will be spun out from government in 2015

George Osborne's spad enjoys significant pay rise 

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is India’s flagship socially relevant programme to combat poverty. It provides the legal guarantee of the right to employment to the rural poor.

The Andhra Pradesh Government wanted to implement the scheme in the state, and realised that a transparent and accountable system with IT-led execution at the grass-roots level would go a long way in ensuring its success. 

Twenty-one percent of doctors who die while undergoing “fitness to practise” investigations have taken their own lives, a report has revealed

Two of Theresa May's special advisers have been prevented from standing for Parliament because they refused to campaign for the Conservatives in the Rochester and Strood by-election.

The number of special advisers in government has increased from 93 to 103, according to the Cabinet Office

CSW asks former ministers to appraise the UK civil service. This month, Sir Hugh Robertson MP gives his views

Chief of defence staff General Sir Nicholas Houghton (pictured left) calls for “smarter” thinking on big data and finance in the Ministry of Defence 

Emerging markets face many challenges, with fluid social structures and in many cases young infrastructures. These challenges lead to both amplified risks and the innovative opportunities

After a year of big data breaches like Home Depot and Sony, and widespread security vulnerabilities in our shared software, which spawned the likes of Heartbleed and Shellshock, it’s easy to predict that cyber security will be a hot topic in 2015

Executive agency responsible for the “land arm” of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been sold for £140m, it was announced today

Time to stop the blame game and find solutions to clinical failure in the NHS, says PASC

The Home Office has been urged to make "significant improvements" to its strategy for handling immigrants who stay beyond their visas’ expiry date

Commons leader William Hague has insisted plans to restrict voting on English issues to English MPs will not hold up further plans for Scotland

Since 2008, the civil service has seen huge change. Now it’s time for me to follow its lead

Treasury favourite leaves for Ofcom in March 2015

“I pushed through the tuition fees reforms”

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will look into the computer failure which caused chaos across UK airports last Friday

A recent CSW round table examined the potential of Big Data to improve outcomes and cut costs in our healthcare system. Colin Marrs reports. Photos by Paul Heartfield

Turnover in private office and policy jobs is robbing ministers of expert support, special advisers told the IfG. Sarah Aston reports

Service integration and management of multi-supplier IT services (SIAM) is just one of a many IT functions that will be brought in-house, the government’s chief technology officer Liam Maxwell tells CSW

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) has appointed four new board members, it was announced on Monday 8 December.