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Scheme launched days after cabinet secretary admits there were "underlying structural causes" for scandal

Calls to advice lines for child support and probate services "do not generate revenue", minister says

Cabinet secretary admits he was "always uneasy" about the Home Office's overly ambitious ESN programme but insists it's not a failure

Prisons minister says state "better placed" to retain control of HMP Birmingham after stepping in last year

Department for Transport insists “HS2 is happening" as release of funds delayed

Four unions join forces to call for an end to "inherent unfairness" of differing pay deals across sectors

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

Probation services would be 'safer' under public ownership, chief inspector says

Department for Transport-funded services start as one firm says "there is no turning back at this late stage"

Report details seismic Whitehall shifts, two years after Theresa May triggered Article 50

 

Commercial skills still lacking in some departments, Reform report finds

Two decades after the Scottish Government and Welsh Government came into existence, politicians reflect on how staff reacted

Environment secretary also reveals rising number of secondments from Natural England

Data-enabled technologies can present "major ethical and practical challenges" for public bodies, committee chair Lord Evans says

More than 1,000 pieces of optical and radar data are now available under licence

CDC is doing too little to ensure the billions it invests have maximum impact, ICAI says

New pharmaceutical regulator chief must oversee industry's post-Brexit transition 

Confidential document warns no-deal "structure will quickly fall if too many decisions are unnecessarily escalated to the top levels"

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

Report shows numbers of arm's-length bodies remained fairly stable in 2017-18 despite falling in previous years

Committee says department’s refusal to engage on key site for Richmond House redevelopment could also add £350m to project cost

Eight-hundred staff on the move, hundreds of millions in wage costs and holiday bans – how the civil service is preparing for Brexit day

Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation will look at how algorithms could reflect the biases of their developers

DWP minister Justin Tomlinson claims department wants to ‘avoid transferring errors from legacy benefits’