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"We do not require wider education legislation in this session to make progress on our ambitious education agenda," says education secretary

UKEF chief Louis Taylor tells CSW he has struck deal with Treasury to end "very inefficient use of money" through contractors

National Audit Office finds “no evidence" chief social worker influenced decision to award contracts to consultancy she used to hold shares in — but raises concern over the way the department sought to manage conflicts of interest

Career diplomat David Frost returning to Whitehall to become foreign secretary's Spad

First central government department to offer payroll credit union savings scheme reveals take-up

Find out which civil servants and departmental teams are in the running for an award

Experience working across Whitehall will be essential for new director, but candidate pack hints that external experience valuable too

New deputy director for international trade to lead a team promoting UK's transport industry in a post-Brexit world

Susan Acland-Hood on the move as courts service presses ahead with digital shake-up

Peter Lawson and Samantha Ulyatt to take up post in the coming weeks

Civil service-wide staff survey "will directly influence real and observable change", vows cabinet secretary

Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union says work that redeployed HMRC staff normally do "will be building up" as they focus on Concentrix tax credit queries

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Interim chief stepping up to permanent role, as the agency in charge of government procurement oversees a shift in its funding model

The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments says it is not willing to give "retrospective" approval to Sir Andrew Gregory's new job as chief of the armed forces charity SSAFA

Pia Wilkes returning to the agency responsible for testing safety and emissions of vehicles after four years in the private sector

McKibbin says it has been "an honour and a privilege" to lead the separate Northern Ireland Civil Service since 2011

National Audit Office finds 9,000 data breaches recorded by the 17 biggest government departments in last year – and says Cabinet Office must do more to help departments clamp down on loss and theft

The outsourcing firm says HMRC's decision – which comes amid pressure from MPs over wrongly halted tax credits – is an attack on its "professional credibility"

Downing Street source says prime minister Theresa May is "100% committed" to HS2 despite departure of Britain's highest-paid civil servant

Trade secretary Liam Fox says his department will launch an "open, international recruitment for a new permanent secretary" once Sir Martin Donnelly steps down

PCS union says plan to move organisation employing more than 4,000 civil servants into the private sector appears to have been "quietly dropped" after it fails to appear in the new Neighbourhood Planning Bill

Department urged to ensure that "drive to deliver greater numbers" is not "delivered at the expense of delivering maximum value"

New group chief technology officer will be responsible for driving shared IT services – with DCLG looking for candidates who will challenge "the status quo"

Independent advisers to the government say law on misconduct in public office is "unclear" and "ambiguous"

Former deputy PM says decision to try and avoid an "infantile Whitehall turf war" left him buried under a "tsunami of paperwork"

Council chiefs urge greater say in DWP's replacement for the Work Programme

Elizabeth Denham says she will consider making it easier for the Information Commissioner's Office to step in when departments are slow to respond to public requests for info

The highest proportion of top public sector jobs on record went to women in the last year, new figures from the Commissioner for Public Appointments show

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Catch up with all the latest appointments at the Department for Exiting the European Union as it begins to flesh out its senior management team – plus all the usual Whitehall moves

Latest Labour Market Outlook from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development finds concern over employment law and migration policy

IBM’s Vice President, Public Sector, Sharon Bagshaw sits down with Civil Service World to discuss cognitive technology and the future of government digital transformation

Pessimism about EU referendum fallout “particularly high” among public sector workers, finds the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Advisory Committee on Business Appointments gives the nod to unpaid Birmingham University role for the former HMRC chief