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As government gears up to celebrate the centenary of voting rights for women, Tamsin Rutter catches up with gender champion Melanie Dawes and women’s network co-founder Keela Shackell-Smith on their priorities for 2018

BT brought together some their top security experts and CIOs from well known UK organisations to discuss digital transformation and the impact that it’s having on organisations

Transport Select Committee says failure has wider implications for rail franchising 

As the pay cap is being lifted for other parts of the public sector, SCS pay reform needs ambition and commitment, not aspirational blather

New unit set up in department to tackle safeguarding across the aid sector

Union accuses tax agency of 'throwing IT staff on the scrap heap' as it emerges there may not be room for them in new regional centres

Report highlights the need for system to be in place before the UK leaves the European Union in May 2019

Civil Service Commission eyes relaxation of competition rules if they are “unlikely to secure suitable appointees”

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

The fall of construction firm turned outsourcing giant Carillion comes at a time when criticism of private provision of public services is rising. Richard Johnstone looks at Whitehall’s response and takes soundings for the future

Move follows Public Accounts Committee observation that up-front borrowing could have reduced the cost to consumers of the £20bn Hinkley Point C project

MPs credit department with bringing programme “back from the brink” but warn that biggest challenges are yet to come

Tailored review urges Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to give garden city development corporation more financial freedom

Response to FOI request also reveals that department spends £66m a year on IT

Appointments watchdog publishes advice letter to Ameetpal Gill over contract with Oliver Letwin’s cross-party Brexit initiative

Study finds that a quarter of officers need to access six or more databases in working on a single case

Treasury has handed £150m to official receiver for overseeing company’s liquidation, it has been revealed 

Damning report finds no evidence of department-driven workforce planning for sector since Gordon Brown was prime minister

David Jones said there was a “huge improvement across the board in the preparedness of departments” in the first year following the creation of DExEU

Tax agency will move 2,700 staff to second Scottish regional centre by 2021

Proposals indicate that the firm, which went out of business last month, expected to be able to get double its profit margins on some Whitehall contracts

MPs criticise slow progress on “byzantinely complicated task” but Brexit department insists capability is constantly under review

Head of the watchdog, Elizabeth Denham, says ICO will be expected to do “more of everything” as strict new data compliance law comes down the track

Brexit is creating a mammoth task for government. The new Brexit|Org|Gov Project is attempting to understand and track what needs to be done across the public sector ahead of leaving the EU