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At the first Civil Service World leadership lecture, Defra permanent secretary Clare Moriarty shared the four principles that inform her leadership style. Suzannah Brecknell reports

MPs urge Defra to admit it has an unmanageable workload and accuse DIT of lacking the capacity to do new trade deals

Department reveals that G4S’s contract to run the centres has been extended for two years until a long-term manager is identified.

Despite Whitehall’s global reputation for integrity, it can still learn from a developing country civil service survey

Report argues Whitehall, the NHS and local government will not be able to fill key roles without tailored agreement with the European Union

Minister reveals reaction from permanent secretary Melanie Dawes to “storm in a teacup” revelations

Pay deal in Scotland follows “sustained cross-union campaign”, with talks ongoing with Whitehall

Ahead of next week’s Sprint 18 event, GDS director general Kevin Cunnington outlines the organisation’s focus areas for the coming months, and its achievements of the past two years

Appointment of Janet Young comes ahead of updated Government Estates Strategy

John Manzoni announces launch of “success profiles”, which will allow managers to recruit on past experience as well as competency-based framework

Many internationally lauded ideas for improving how government work have come from the UK – but even when they are copied many in the civil service view central reforming units like the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit to the Government Digital Service as irritants. This should change, says Andrew Greenway

Newly updated policy implements a pipeline model which could make it easier for departments to self-approve 'business-as-usual' spending

Philip Rutnam organising inquiry into Windrush leaks, Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden reveals to PACAC

BT's Mike Pannell on why any organisation that holds personal data should have a compliance strategy in place 

Government’s chief trade negotiation adviser brings together officials from 11 departments

Senior Home Office civil servant in charge of migration under pressure over Rudd resignation

Cabinet Office's annual figures show four-fold increase for Brexit department

Windrush scandal turns spotlight on numbers shortfall with high-fliers programme

There can often be a daunting space between policy development and delivery in government – a space where policy ideas can be undermined as they move from one team to another. Here are Infrastructure and Projects Authority chief executive Tony Meggs’s top tips for closing it

Research from Dods ranks the performance of 29 of the government’s biggest IT suppliers

Unusual intervention from cabinet secretary comes as government chief whip and prime minister’s chief of staff also move to defend Robbins

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

First BAME home secretary announced following leaks from Home Office that led to Rudd resigning

Treasury select committee chair calls for assurances that the error will not be repeated as HMRC undertakes internal investigation