potentially on 1 november, the day after boris johnson insists the uk will leave the eu. that has prompted jeremy corbyn to write to whitehall's top civil servant, cabinet secretary sir mark sedwill, demanding a block on brexit during an election ...
Karl O’Connor is Professor of Public Administration and Policy within the Centre for Public Administration at Ulster University, UK. He is also the Research Director for Social Work and Social Policy. Karl’s research examines the role of the civil servant in multiethnic societies and in internat...
He has been a chief executive of a local authority and a senior civil servant. Latterly, he was head of local government at the Government Office for the East Midlands. He is also a non-executive director of several NHS organisations. Peter has strong research interests in leadership and ...
It is possible that CSAs can avoid this conflict by virtue of having less sense of corporate “belonging”: they are very often still part of their academic or industrial community, not a civil servant, normally have little or no management responsibility and a limited term in their role. Th...
Peter Ricketts, a former head of the Foreign Office, wrote on Twitter that Sir Kim had been an outstanding public servant. “It should not have ended like this. He has been taken out by an act of political sabotage. What does this say about the state of our country?”...
The UK’s Changing Democracy: The 2018 Democratic Audit,Patrick Dunleavyconsiders the responsiveness of traditionally dominant civil service headquartered in Whitehall, and the wider administration of key public services, notably the NHS, policing and other administratio...
Back in the day, the only record of their conversations would have been in the form of minutes, from which the naughty bits would have been washed away by some diligent civil servant, or diaries published years later. Should yesterday’s great and good have been able to communicate via ...
While he was living at this house his mother was struck and killed by a drunk driving civil servant nearby as she walking down the road. I am not sure John ever got over it. Although Paul lived in Allerton there was no real obvious geographic marker that would have told me they lived ...
On the scale of the cost and education of a UK civil servant, one day of training and the cost of PGP is very cheap and easy. Yep, and it won’t solve your problem. Look, if I have one paranoid user with important data and encryption, I can probably have a secure solution. If ...
be to convert civic buildings in smaller, more deprived areas into remote working spaces that could be used by any civil servant. This would go further than the current policy ofcreating public sector “hubs” in cities such as Leeds and Darlingtonthat were already likely to gain, Ussher said...