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Following news of Olly Robbins' likely departure, Brexiteers must stop treating civil servants like parents turning up at your first Glastonbury and act with level-headedness

Labour say report reveals 'unconstitutional political intervention', but FDA accuses Times of reporting 'tittle-tattle over coffee' as if it was the settled view of civil servants

Prospect members protest at imposition of rejected 1.3% pay offer

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

Latest move comes after Institute for Government warns government may never be as ready for no deal as it was in March

Report commissioned by the department says civil servants were ‘rightly appalled by what happened’ but this was ‘often juxtaposed with a self-justification’

Problems affected ‘a very small number’ of the 350,000 businesses now signed up for digital platform, according to perm sec

Government chief commercial officer Gareth Rhys Williams has set out ambitious plans to improve contract management across government. He tells CSW what has been achieved in the first six months of a new accreditation scheme

Tweaks for 2019 include Public Value Framework sections but IfG warns openness project is still very much a work in progress

Lidington pledges government will only pay for capacity it uses after £50m payout to scrap no-deal ferry contracts

Meg Hillier also queries “surprising” lack of ministerial directions for some Brexit-related spending

Health department says it has done no impact assessment of how no-deal Brexit would affect disabled people

NAO criticises government for tolerating and working around poor data

Select committees have a key duty to hold those who hold power to account. Former MP Huw Edwards looks at how they have changed in the 40 years since they were created, and what parliamentarians are looking for when they are taking evidence.

Public Accounts Committee says department lacks detailed implementation plan for delivering policy

Department chiefs twice as likely to have attended a fee-paying school than a comprehensive, education charity says

Office for Disability Issues expansion hailed as a "bold statement from the government" to address injustices

Migration Advisory Committee asked to look again at regional earnings thresholds and ‘high public value’ jobs with low pay

They play an increasingly important part in parliament’s scrutiny of government and can inspire dread in even the most experienced perm sec. Forty years on from the creation of the modern select committee on 25 June 1979, Richard Vize looks at how they affect policy – and the lives of civil servants

BT has huge experience working with global multinationals on their business case for SD-WAN, and here they lay out a detailed understanding of the real benefits and challenges 

The cabinet secretary says his leadership style is founded on three core elements. Beckie Smith reports on Civil Service World’s 2019 leadership lecture

McLean was awarded damehood for services to mathematical biology and advice to government

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

Laughter and tears as prime ministers, former colleagues and a pop star pay tribute to late cabinet secretary