The government is continuing to recruit fewer fast streamers, with the amount recommended for appointment this year less than ...

The Department for Work and Pensions is boosting its civil service headcount by onboarding 2,700 outsourced workers who are ...

Burnham needed to embed a core purpose for his reconfigured centre. The party conference has made that purpose much clearer ...

The state no longer just designs policy; it runs vast, complex operational systems, from prisons to jobcentres. Citizens no ...

Public confidence is shaped by the services government delivers, and by the partners it trusts to deliver them. Gary Gates, ...

Burnham announced Great British Grid, a new publicly-owned body within Great British Energy that will "challenge" private ...

Huw Leslie has been named as the first director of the newly launched AI Economics Institute. He will join the ...

Government chief scientific adviser Angela McLean says toolkit will help officials make connections 'with greater confidence' ...

Susan Acland-Hood is permanent secretary at the Department for Education and head of the policy profession. Policy Festival 2026 is open exclusively to serving UK civil and public servants, including ...

When a crisis hits, the default way of doing government quickly unravels. Carefully constructed media grids, centrally-coordinated plans and timetabled announcements are hastily ripped up, and ...

The Re:State think tank has called for a ban on social value scoring in public contracts. A new report from the think tank ...

Energy department says recruitment drive is part of restructuring that will deliver clearer leadership and strengthen ...