Culture

Not long ago, the team overseeing digital transformation in Whitehall was in need of some significant changes itself. Zara Farrar, leader of the Government Digital Service’s women’s group, tells Rebecca Hill how GDS reinvented its attitude to women

Geoffrey Lyons reviews Sonia Purnell’s enthralling new biography of one of Britain’s most misunderstood figures

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

University College London academics spearhead drive for independent inquiry into both sides’ “misinformation” and “outright falsehood”

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

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

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 Balancing careers in the European Commission and corporate world with a young family have given Ian William Vollbracht and his wife valuable insights into having it all - some of the time 

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

This time last year, Louise Haigh had only just become an MP. Now she’s Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow Cabinet Office minister, holding the government to account on civil service issues – and making her voice heard on Whitehall’s diversity record. Matt Foster meets her

Microsoft looks at the digital infrastructure that allows cities to prosper

Civil service diversity champion wants more info on levels of awareness and take-up of workplace adjustments among disabled officials – and says tackling bullying and harassment will require a change in culture

Former Department for Work and Pensions permanent secretary Leigh Lewis finds that Martin Stanley’s new book How to be a Civil Servant offers a valuable guide, but not quite the whole picture

Tory MP Richard Bacon gets a cheeky question in about the internet sensation... 

Mental health, musculoskeletal disorders and encouraging healthy lifestyles top priorities for newly-created cross-Whitehall role

International Development permanent secretary Mark Lowcock tells CSW that asking other departments to take on aid commitments won't undermine DfID's mission — and says some of his staff have been poached for their expertise

Microsoft looks at how digital technology can improve firefighter safety 

Former private secretary Dunstan Hadley recalls how an encounter with the fifth Beatle at Abbey Road studios led him to compromise his professionalism... 

Although attitudes are changing, officials with dyslexia are still underrepresented in the senior civil service. Having more visible role models will be vital in remedying this, says David Whineray of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

As the civil service vows to improve the diversity of its graduate intake, former senior official Andrew Greenway asks whether Oxford's famed PPE degree is really a golden ticket to the top of the political and administrative elite 

Cabinet Office-commissioned report finds flagship Fast Stream graduate programme remains “unrepresentative of the population at large”, as minister Matt Hancock vows to take action

Report by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee says that final round of funding to the beleaguered youth charity — subject to a warning from then-Cabinet Office perm sec Richard Heaton — "should not have been authorised"

Lord Grocott reviews Chris Austin and Richard Faulkner’s Disconnected! Broken Links in Britain’s Rail Policy

Upper chamber pushes for income-related measures to be retained