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Statement from the Security Minister in response to CT Policing guidance
Security Minister, Brandon Lewis, has responded to coverage regarding CT Policing guidance that included protest groups and the Ukrainian coat of arms, following his statement in the House of Commons earlier today. Security Minister, Brandon Lewis: In recent days I …
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Social mobility across the UK
Talent is evenly spread across the country, but opportunity is not, which is why we are committed to making sure every child, in every part of the country, has a fair chance.
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Project Delivery Excellence Award
In our Week of Winners, we look at the Defra recipients of the 2019 Civil Service Award for Project Delivery Excellence and the work that won them this recognition.
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Growth: cautionary tales from history
Historian Sheilagh Ogilvie explains what lessons policymakers should take from the UK's past economic development.
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Digital Award
The award-winning team behind HM Passport Office's Digital Customer Service replaced a complex, multi-section paper form with an online application designed to make application easier, quicker and more accurate.
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Factsheet: Police Funding Settlement 2020-21
The Home Office has published the police funding settlement for 2020-21. This sets out the total amount of money going into policing next year, including how much each individual Police and Crime Commissioner in England and Wales will receive.
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Developing People Award
The 2019 Civil Service Award for Developing People was won by the Department for Education's Care Leaver Policy Team and HR Recruitment Team.
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Bursary applications now open for genetic risk assessment and counselling course
The NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia (SCT) Screening Programme is offering 25 funded places on this year’s course at King’s College London.
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Communication & Engagement Award
The latest post in our series on 2019 Civil Service Award winners looks at the team in the Welsh Government who won the Communication & Engagement Award.
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My first posting
Emma talks to us about her first posting in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Digital, Data and Technology at DIT: What being 'agile' means to us
Find out from our Head of Digital Delivery how important agile is in our work and why our organisation's mission lends itself to agile.
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Tackling shortages in the breast imaging workforce
Working together to increase the breast screening programme imaging workforce
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Join us at the School Outreach Network meeting
Would you like to explore how you can work with colleagues from across the Civil Service to raise the aspirations of young people across the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber? Join us at the next meeting of the School Outreach Network.
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Scotland help us shape the Civil Service vision 2020
Are you passionate about being a civil servant? Would you like the opportunity to play a part in helping to shape the future direction of the Civil Service Vision, A Brilliant Civil Service in 2020 and beyond
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Policy & Use of Evidence Award
This week we are featuring blog posts on all the 2019 Civil Service Award winners. Here, we celebrate the civil servants who won the Policy and Use of Evidence Award for their work on the Scottish Government's Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest strategy.
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Collaboration Award
In our series of blog posts celebrating the winners of the 2019 Civil Service Awards, we focus on the Ministry of Justice's Offender Accommodation Pilot Project, which won the Collaboration Award.
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Hack the North 4.0: solving problems for real users
Join us at Hack the North 4.0 where Amy will be on hand with other frontline colleague to focus on the issue of financial inclusion.
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Citizenship Award
The second of our blog posts around the 2019 Civil Service Awards focuses on Mairi Macneil, winner of the Citizenship Award.
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Public Service Award
We kick off our Week of Winners coverage of the recipients of 2019 Civil Service Awards with the Home Office's Midlands Intake Unit, winners of the Public Service Award.
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Environment Agency manages the return of waste to the UK
In today's blog we look at how the Environment Agency is managing the repatriation of 42 waste containers from Malaysia to the UK.
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Civil Service Careers website: applying for a new role
The new 'How to Apply' page on the Civil Service Careers website is designed to answer your questions if you are considering a career in the service, or if you are an existing civil servant looking for new opportunities.
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Recognising the value of great teachers
We want to make teaching attractive to the most talented graduates by recognising the prestige that we as a society place on the profession.
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All a Board for the Environment
The recruitment process for four new Environment Agency board members has just opened, with board members helping governments, businesses and communities to understand the benefits of particular environmental measures, as well as the risks of not acting.
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Home Secretary writes about new counter terrorism measures
Today, the Government announced tougher sentencing and monitoring in an overhaul of the response to terrorism. The Home Secretary has written in the Sun about how these measures deliver on promises to keep the public safer. She wrote: Two months …
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A handy guide to saving shortcuts on smartphone home screens
We’ve created a short guide on how to create shortcuts to screening resources.
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How iXBRL is shaping our digital future
Our Director of Finance, Michelle, spoke at the XBRL Digital Financial Reporting CEFPRO Conference and explained how we want to increase the use of iXBRL in our aim to become the most innovative and open register in the world.
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Fighting ash dieback and protecting the future of our woodlands
We have at least 3 million ash trees across the MOD estate, so managing the tree disease ash dieback is a significant objective of our sustainable woodland management and long-term forest planning. Read on to find out more.
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Village halls funding, white-tailed eagle success in Oxfordshire and wild animals in circuses ban
In this afternoon’s blog we take a look at positive coverage of the government’s grant scheme to help rejuvenate village halls, the progress of a white-tailed eagle released onto the Isle of Wight last summer and our ban of wild animals in circuses.
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My role in issuing Debt Relief Orders
Read about Debt Relief Orders and how one of our team, Andrew Cumming, ended up working on the project that helped establish this important service.
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Fighting Period Poverty
Periods are a normal part of everyday life and we do not want young people missing out on lessons because of them.
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From the private sector to the Fast Stream
Sam talks to us about his experience spending a decade in the private sector before joining the Fast Stream.
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GSE Opportunities: G6 / A1 Senior Advisor and Deputy Head of Lessons
This blog post is a collection of vacancies, events and learning and development opportunities for people working in Government Science and Engineering.
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Living with PKU – a parent's perspective
As part of our special series on 50 years of newborn blood spot screening, Caroline Bridges shares her daughter's screening story and tells us what life is like living with PKU.
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Mentoring Care Leavers in the North East
Could you share your knowledge and experience as a civil servant to support young people leaving care in the North East?
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Join us for A Brilliant Civil Service Workshop in Sheffield
Would you like the opportunity to play a part in helping to shape the future direction of the Civil Service Vision, A Brilliant Civil Service?
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Guidance updated on PSA testing for prostate cancer
We have published updated guidance for GPs and well men aged 50 and over about prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer.
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The National Living Wage, inequality and job progression: two research projects
Does the minimum wage have an impact on wage inequality? Do increases in the minimum wage help or hinder people moving into better-paid jobs? These were the questions posed by a major, two-part research project which the LPC published in …
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Sunday Times on tree guards in woodlands
Today’s Sunday Times reports on the use of tree guards in woodlands to help rebuild Britain’s lost woodlands. The story notes that around 200 million of the plastic tubes have been deployed by the Woodland Trust, Forestry England, the National …
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Natural England’s licensing statistics for 2018
Dave Slater, Natural England’s Acting Director for species licensing work, takes a look at Natural England’s licensing statistics for 2018.
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Higher Education Statistics
Today’s Education in the Media blog looks at the publication of annual student statistics from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) which showed an increase in the number of university graduates being awarded first class degrees and a rise in international students.