Civil Service Reform

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was created in July 2016 as part of changes announced when Theresa May became prime minister. Civil Service World met Angie Ridgwell and Jaee Samant, the civil servants responsible for the transition programme from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Energy and Climate Change, to reflect on the process. By Richard Johnstone

SSAC chair tells CSW the body will monitor the merging benefits system to make sure it matches ministers' pledges

As head of HM Courts and Tribunals Service, the Ministry of Justice executive agency that runs the judicial system in England and Wales, Susan Acland-Hood is overseeing wide-ranging reforms to the operation of courts across the country. She tells Richard Johnstone how the changes will improve access to justice

Digital director John Sheridan tells Civil Service World's sister publication PublicTechnology about changes not only to how the UK’s official archive operates, but to the very nature of archiving

Hollywood has lessons for the long-running compensation scheme saga, but there's no guaranteed happy ending

National Cyber Security Centre marks first 12 months in existence by publishing report into threat landscape

Scottish Conservative leader calls on government to fulfil manifesto pledges to move “significant numbers” of civil servants out of Whitehall

Sir Jeremy Heywood releases survey as new leadership academy starts work helping civil servants manage change

Technology may never replace the need for human civil servants, but our panel of experts recognised a direction of travel. Colin Marrs reports from a CSW round table

Recent years has seen a rise in the number of academic blogs that analyse government plans. How can they help make better policy?

Civil servants have access to an unprecedented amount of data, but how can they better use it to improve citizen outcomes? Geoffrey Lyons reports on a recent round table discussion

Tony Douglas will stand down from role at Defence Equipment and Support to return to aviation sector

Amid tensions between UK parliaments over EU Withdrawal Bill, incoming DExEU perm sec insists devolution is ‘meat and drink’ to civil servants

Cabinet Office accounts reveal big hike in spending on interim workers to ensure key programmes are delivered

Chair of department’s women’s network calls on male staff across the civil service to act as allies to feminist cause

IfG urges civil service to ‘get a grip on Brexit workforce strategy’ as FOI request finds high staff turnover in DExEU

Shadow health secretary said Cabinet Office and Treasury would work together to review contracts

The One Team Government movement has big ambitions to reform how Whitehall works by getting different professions and departments to work better together. PublicTechnology meets its co-founder Kit Collingwood-Richardson to find out more

City centre office block will house 3,600 civil servants

Wireless internet service passes beta assessment and is now available in more than 100 locations across the UK

Committee chair Bernard Jenkin says that Brexit will expose “where understandings are weak and where relationships are strained” in Whitehall

Study from techUK and Dods shows key obstacles becoming more – not less – entrenched

Analysis by GMB finds public sector now employs less than 17% of workers, with civil service headcount dropping by 18% since 2010

Tim Razzall tells Civil Service World he blames government for lack of vision on Brexit