Senior civil servants might be deliberately undermining vital fraud detection work in an attempt to protect their organisation’s reputation, according to counter-fraud workers.
The Conservative Party “will always protect public services”, the chancellor insisted as he announced his ambition to cut civil service numbers back to their pre-pandemic level.
To get brilliant people from the private sector or local government into Whitehall, the Civil Service needs to fix its reputation, increase pay and ensure there are sufficient senior roles to...
Keeping records of people’s skills in the civil service, perhaps through a system of formal qualifications, would help teams make best use of their people to deliver services, a panel heard.
The government has outlined plans to shrink the size of its office portfolio by £1.5bn to help reduce running costs and provide funding to maintain properties.
Government plans to cut 90,000 jobs from the civil service mark a return to the austerity that hurt economic growth and damaged public services in the 2010s, a trade union leader has warned.
Current redundancy terms for civil servants will remain in place until at least the end of this year, the government has told the Public and Commercial Services Union.
Civil servants are in line for a pay increase of up to 2% this year – with the potential for higher increases in departments that are undergoing transformational reform or struggling to recruit.
The relationship between ministers, accounting officers and civil servants is currently not working, the outgoing auditor general of UK’s spending watchdog has said in his last speech in the role.
Excessive staff turnover in the civil service is costing the taxpayer up to £74m a year in recruitment, training and lost productivity, according to a think-tank.
