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TCS is using Big Data to help you see GE2015 in a whole new way

The civil service has taken a battering – but could Sir Humphrey’s time be about to come again?

As CSW launches its new Transformation hub, BT’s vice president for central government Julie Tankard shares her perspectives on achieving long-lasting change, building services around the citizen, and the importance of listening to and supporting your frontline staff

As the civil service embraces smarter working, The Way We Work programme is helping officials develop strategies to promote more flexible and cost-efficient work strategies. BT shares best practice from the inaugural TW3 awards

Ian Dalton CBE, President of Government and Health, BT Global Services reveals the winner and runners up in a competition to find small companies that will make a big difference to public services and change lives, through imaginative digital products and services. 

Digitalisation is inspiring a new breed of public sector CIO to unlock their creativity and take a leading role in their organisation 

Exclusive: Cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood sets out revised Talent Action Plan after 'worrying' government-commissioned reports on LGBT, BME and disability representation in the civil service

How has performance management changed following the emergence of less hierarchical business structures? 

Justifying investment in employee development is challenging but achievable, according to Cornerstone OnDemand 

Report by former Stonewall chief executive, commissioned by the Cabinet Office, says many LGBT staff feel 'pressured to fit into a conventional mould'

SCS requirement for 'supreme flexibility' in working is holding back disabled civil servants, one of three government-commissioned reports on diversity finds

Whitehall officials recruited to teach friends and family basic digital skills in Cabinet Office drive to get more people online

The next government must think creatively and form joint ventures and partnerships capable of leading delivery if it is to secure an infrastructure legacy, says AECOM

A former police call centre worker tells Freya Pascall about the pressures – exacerbated by central government – that led to their resignation. Illustration by John Levers

After a rocky start, the government’s ambitious plan to integrate health and social care is ready for launch. But is the challenge simply too big? Mark Rowe asks the experts

Lords Economic Affairs Committee says Department for Transport has not made case for why High Speed 2 more 'cost-effective' than alternatives

 The next government must build on existing Whitehall reforms if it wants to avoid mid-term failures, says think tank the Institute for Government

Cabinet Office says contracts for private firms running public services will include 'presumption in favour of disclosing information' to the public

GDS's Mike Bracken appointed to new chief data officer role aiming to improve Whitehall's use of data

Report by MPs on the Defence Committee says UK must be prepared to deal with both 'unconventional and conventional threats'

Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude says £11bn of £20bn annual Whitehall efficiency drive identified, but Labour warns of little room for more 'back office efficiencies' 

From the homeless and crime victims to the abused children of Rotherham, Louise Casey has spent her career fighting for society’s most vulnerable. Sarah Aston meets her. Photos by Tal Cohen

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude confirms that Standard Life's Sir Gerry Grimstone will review work of the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments