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Dave Penman tells union conference conspiracy claims from both ends of political spectrum are a threat to the fabric of Whitehall

Following the Windrush scandal that felled home secretary Amber Rudd, former perm sec Sir David Normington and UKBA chief Rob Whiteman tell Tamsin Rutter what it’s like to lead the Home Office

YPO explains why temporary recruitment is one of the most complex categories HR professionals in the civil service face today. 

Home Affairs Select Committee told 8,000 cases are being reviewed to see if there have been ‘incorrect removals or detention’

BT's Simon Godfrey explains how a focus on people, places, and ideas can transform the UK public sector

New 'success profiles' will roll out at vanguard departments next month, with all departments expected to have adopted them by early 2019

Politicians work within a hierarchical system where they are arbiters of their own fate – but the hierarchy itself can provide a solution to the harassment problem

BT's Mike Pannell argues that organisations should get rid of data they no longer need

Recruitment of trade negotiators leaves department needing to cut overseas trade promotion posts

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

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