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Does it really matter who represents your department at stakeholder meetings – or whether you’ve done a secondment outside Whitehall? Yes, says insider-turned-outsider John Dowie, who moved to work for First Bus after a 27-year civil service career. Here, sharing his observations of government from the other side, he explains why

£22bn scheme has exposed the government to significant risk and has tied up significant public financial capacity says NAO

Permanent secretary admits there is "more we can do" to improve access to education stats

Seven months after launching recruitment campaign, department reveals interim digital chief will continue in role

Speaking at a think-tank event, Lord Macpherson also offered thoughts on the economy to incoming prime minister, while Treasury Select Committee chair said a full leadership contest is needed “so the maddest ideas perhaps don’t make it to asking for official civil service advice”. 

Other initiatives unveiled in hotly anticipated strategy include a cross-government plan to ‘tackle legacy technology’

Payments include £8.2m paid to people who had been wrongly detained

Update also reveals Windrush taskforce has rejected 1,445 applications for documentation proving status

The scale, constraints and pressure of Brexit have very few comparators – and the clock is ticking. Is it any wonder that the complexity of trying to deliver it is keeping civil servants up at night?

Ensuring the right connectivity between hybrid networks and cloud services can be difficult. BT has provided free advice on how to balance the risk and reward of the cloud

Read CSW's list of civil servants honoured

Former diplomat Kumar Iyer becomes department’s first BAME board member

Former Cabinet Office minister flags “keep calm and carry on” spirit amid Brexit abnormality

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

MPs warn practice is undermining the nation’s international climate and development targets

In the latest of our series about civil service leavers, we meet former deputy principal private secretary to the prime minister Ed Whiting, who is now director of strategy for the Wellcome Trust

Plan goes beyond Dame Judith Hackitt’s 2018 review recommendations following west London tragedy

MPs say a new department for constitutional affairs should take on the UK government’s role in devolved areas

Public health professor has been a chief scientific adviser to government departments for a decade

Former Treasury second perm sec Sharon White to join retailer on far-from-undersold pay package

Department says Brexit-related workload will see 600 additional staff located at Stratford centre

Former BIS and DIT permanent secretary will be troubled aerospace giant's "senior representative" in Europe and the UK and Ireland"

Truss also hints at buildings sell-off to avoid having “land that could be used for housing sitting on the government balance sheet”

Civil servants could be either ‘too fresh or too jaded’ to maximise no-deal Brexit preparation for October, highlights think tank