Senior managers do value finance function, survey finds
Finance professionals believe that the senior management teams of their organisations have a “deep understanding” or are “aware of the importance” of the finance function, [...]
View ArticleEditorial: Let’s disentangle this complex debate
The ‘bureaucrat bashers’ are only making things worse Recent weeks have seen a wide-ranging set of attacks on civil servants; but while the media outlets [...]
View ArticleHeed Olympic lessons, says IfG
The civil service must make the most of expertise built up whilst preparing for the Olympics, according to a report published yesterday by the Institute [...]
View ArticlePASC chides PM on Mitchell
The prime minister should not have asked cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood to investigate allegations that Andrew Mitchell had broken the ministerial code last September, according [...]
View ArticleIntern scheme launched
School leavers will be placed in government departments as part of a new apprenticeship scheme, to be launched this April. A hundred 18-21-year-olds will join [...]
View ArticleNAO queries IT savings data
Initiatives aimed at reducing ICT spending saved the government £316m in 2011-12, but a lack of evidence makes it impossible to validate all the savings [...]
View ArticleDepts to share services by 2014
Most Whitehall departments will have to move their transaction services – meaning HR, payroll, and accounts processes – into a shared service project by 2014, [...]
View ArticleDWP CIO Langsdale dies
The Department for Work and Pensions’ chief information officer Philip Langsdale has died. Langsdale was appointed to the role of CIO in May last year, [...]
View ArticleExclusive – Kerswell: civil servants have a ‘duty’ to challenge poor ideas
It is the duty of civil servants to challenge weak policy ideas, the director general of civil service reform, Katherine Kerswell, has told Civil Service [...]
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