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1 day ago · Government officials are more satisfied with their pay and increasingly inclined to stay with their current organisation longer, according to the just-published results of the 2024 Civil …

22 hours ago · We all know that the civil service has a people problem . At Reform we speak to civil servants week in week out, all of whom express frustration with some part of the machine. …

Jan 23, 2025 · On the cover of the winter 2025 issue of Civil Service World is Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government permanent secretary Sarah Healey. In her first CSW …

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3 days ago · Fewer than one in eight public appointments recruitment campaigns was completed in line with a longstanding three-month target in 2023-24 – representing a new low, a report …

Aug 29, 2024 · Two decades is a long time in government. When we launched as Whitehall & Westminster World in 2004, Tony Blair’s New Labour drove the policy of the day. Our archives …

Jan 24, 2025 · The civil service's biggest union has said it will continue pushing for reform of the current fragmented system of pay bargaining for officials as the government's Employment …

Dec 11, 2024 · We end a year in which more people across the world have participated in elections than ever before. Faced with complex global and domestic challenges, political …