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The department's slow response to a price hike last year was "doubly worrying in the context of uncertainty over supply chains after Brexit", committee chair Meg Hillier said

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

After it won the Civil Service Communication Award last year, Helen Duggan, head of marketing for Public Health England, reflects on how the Stay Well This Winter campaign leveraged people's trust in health professionals to change their behaviour

Tom Smith, managing director of the ONS Data Science Campus, tells CSW's sister title PublicTechnology how and why he wants to 'move the needle' for the use of data across the public sector

Jon Thompson's revelation that the police had investigated two threats after he gave evidence on Brexit custom costs “represents an escalation that cannot be tolerated”

MPs slam “serious administrative failings” in communicating nominations for public appointments

Roderick Crawford of SAS on real use cases, powerful outcomes, and how to achieve them

Thompson says that it is incumbent on civil servants to tell truth to power after speaking of personal impact of comments on Brexit

Five of the service’s seven existing commercial partners will assume responsibility for the product

To mark World Mental Health Day, CSW asked two of the civil service's mental health first aiders to reflect on what they've learned so far

Unions criticises home secretary Sajid Javid’s lack of engagement after members had rejected pay plan

Lord Deben is as intrepid and combative an advocate for the environment as anyone concerned about climate change could want. Better known as John Gummer, the former environment minister and now chair of the Committee on Climate Change tells Geoffrey Lyons why the UK’s current climate trajectory is worrying, and how it will be affected by Trump and Brexit.

International development secretary Penny Mordaunt calls for ‘national conversation’ to promote private investment in aid as part of reset of DfID’s work

Rising demand for services “will make it even harder to achieve the government’s ambition”, the watchdog said

Carole Mundell is the first departmental science adviser to be appointed since Patrick Vallance became government chief scientific adviser in April

Perm sec Jonathan Slater has instructed his head statistician to work with DfE's comms and policy teams to ensure its stats “meet the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality and value”

Government reversed plan to disclose civil service pay figure to unions before announcement amid fear of leaks, court hears

Fraud is estimated to cost the UK government £73.6m per year

Education secretary Damian Hinds has been rapped by the government's statistics watchdog over a string of claims about school funding and performance.

Cisco's Dominic Elliott shows how global organisations can embrace the benefits of SD-WAN without adding complexity

Haldane's appointment "will give the council authority and independence", business secretary Greg Clark said

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

Consultation analysis underscores weight of organised opposition to Cameron-era proposals ditched by May regime

The Institute for Apprenticeships was 'playing catch-up for the mistakes the department made before it was created', MPs said