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'Great news': Former cab sec welcomes increased Fast Stream …
WEB16 hours ago — Former cabinet secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell has welcomed the increase in applications to the Fast Stream this year. Earlier this week, Civil Service World reported on the newly-published data for fast stream applications to the 2024 intake which showed a big rise in interest following three years of falling numbers of applicants. Speaking to CSW, O’Donnell said: “This is great news.
McFadden: Next civil service pay award will be 'as close to start of ...
WEB3 days ago — The government is aiming to announce next year’s civil service pay awards “as close to the start of the pay year” as possible, Pat McFadden has said. In a letter to the Senior Salaries Review Body, officially kicking off the 2025-26 pay round, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said public sector workers "deserve timely pay awards ...
'Stark' drop in real-terms civil service pay at all grades since 2010 ...
WEB31 Jan 2023. Real-terms pay has dropped "starkly" at all civil service grades since 2010, with senior civil service wages dropping by nearly a quarter in that time, a new analysis has found. This cut in spending power at all levels of the civil service is fuelling record levels of exits and putting off top talent – all while failing to ...
Civil service headcount rises at highest rate since 2021, despite ...
WEBDec 14, 2023 — The number of full-time equivalent civil servants went up from 489,000 to 496,000 between June and September, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics. This is a rise of 1.4%, which is the biggest quarterly percentage increase since June-September 2021, when the headcount rose by 1.7%.
Breaking down barriers: How civil servants from disadvantaged ...
WEB2 days ago — In the Social Mobility Commission’s 2021 report, Navigating the Labyrinth, demonstrates how civil servants from disadvantaged backgrounds are significantly underrepresented, and that even if they do "get in", they struggle to "get on". There are a series of unwritten rules and cultural norms around progression and …
Redundancies, recruitment freezes and 'deprioritisation': 10 things …
WEBJun 10, 2022 — Senior officials have been told to model reductions of 20%, 30% and 40% to their departmental headcounts, to help the government meet the PM's goal of cutting 91,000 civil service jobs over the next three years.
Civil service grows again as diversity indicators hit record highs
WEBAug 2, 2023 — Women now make up 54.6% of the civil service in 2023, a 0.1 percentage point uptick on 2022. But the increase in representation at Grade 6/7 and in the SCS is more significant. At SCS level, 47.9% of roles are now held by women, compared to 47.2% a year ago. At G6/G7 level, 49.5% of officials are women, up from 48.9% in 2022.
Read the October 2021 edition of Civil Service World
WEBNov 4, 2021 — Read the issue here. Cop26 will be the largest international event ever held in the UK, with almost 25,000 people expected in Glasgow from the 31st of October for the most important talks on the global response to climate change since …
Read the November 2022 issue of Civil Service World
WEBNov 21, 2022 — This month's issue shines a light on science and innovation in the civil service – plus, the civil servants behind Operation Bridges and an exclusive interview with government's chief property officer. In CSW 's science and innovation-focused November 2022 issue, Defence and Security Accelerator Anita Friend tells us how working on crisis ...