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To win at the dice game Perudo, players need to calculate risk and read their opponents. No surprise, then, that Gus O’Donnell is a master. Britain’s former top civil servant talks Blair, Brown and life after Brexit with The House magazine's Sam Macrory

This year's People Survey provides a snapshot of morale at Whitehall's newest organisations: the Department for Exiting the European Union, the Department for International Trade, and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Matt Foster crunches the numbers

Staff responses signal across-the-board plunge on all key measures, and make department Whitehall’s lowest employee-engagement performer

2016 People Survey shows overall year-on-year rise in staff engagement, but claims of bullying, harassment and discrimination at highest recorded levels

Former Foreign Office permanent secretary warns Brexit committee over morale concerns if outside experts are paid more than civil servants delivering UK's exit from the EU

Figures from mid-point of the applications window, highlighted by the Social Mobility Commission, suggest applications from working class candidates have risen sharply

Aid watchdog hands international development department an amber/red rating for its exit and transition work, but DfID disputes the "rushed" report

Former Cabinet Office minister says he "very much" doubts more staff will be needed for Brexit and says departments can "reallocate" existing officials – as Downing Street claims leaked memo may be an attempt by consultants to win business

Manzoni and Gummer convene refreshed advisory panel as government reiterates commitment to channel 33% of procurement spend through SMEs

Next week's set piece fiscal statement will not include extra resources to cope with Brexit, according to a memo leaked to The Times

National Audit Office flags "fundamental weaknesses" in Defence Infrastructure Organisation deal with Capita and says the Ministry of Defence faces a "huge challenge" in funding its estate programme

Public Administration Committee says vote to leave the EU means it is "all the more important that the civil service is clear about its mission and role"

Senior DH official will need to show “flexibility, adaptability and resilience"

Short stints in top jobs make firefighting a more rational career plan than pushing for systemic changes – and may make it harder for outsiders to break in

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

Joint FCO and DIT recruitment campaign offers up to £117,800 a year for new faculty within Diplomatic Academy

"Shadow" body takes shape ahead of next year's move to centralise ownership of government estate and charge departments market-level rent

Latest government commercial standards focus on building in-house clout and ask departments to justify use of interims

Microsoft's Natalia Boldyreva looks at how Office 365 can fundamentally transform how government work gets done

David Cameron’s policy guru ruminates on his career over lunch with CSW's Suzannah Brecknell

Public Accounts Committee move follows National Audit Office concerns over £434m “private sector support” and other costs in annual accounts

Appointment will bring number of female permanent secretaries to five, partially reversing recent downturn

Union research shows Grade 6 staff have seen a 16% pay cut in take-home pay since 2011, amid warnings that rises at lower grades will fail to keep pace with the National Living Wage

After a career in journalism spanning the Financial Times, The Times and Prospect, Bronwen Maddox has taken the helm of the Institute for Government. She tells Jess Bowie about her vision for the IfG’s future – and spills the beans on dinner with Russian president Vladimir Putin