Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s CEO Julie Lennard will take the post of chief operating officer at CPS, where she will continue to play a key role in digital government […]...
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ONS workers back strike action over office-attendance dispute
Following a process that closed last week, almost three quarters of the hundreds of officials at the Office for National Statistics that were balloted voted in support of strike action […]...
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Whitehall graduate scheme reintroduces dedicated cyber track
The civil service Fast Stream graduate programme is to undergo another update, with the cyber element to be split out of the technology segment and given its own specialist focus […]...
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Staff at ONS to ramp up dispute over in-office demands
Since May, officials working for statistics agency have been required to spend two fifths of their hours in the office and, after non-compliance, are now set to take work-to-rule action […]...
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Data and transparency bodies issue call for ‘revival’ of open government
A wide range of organisations, including the Open Data Institute and Transparency International, have written to the PM to encourage the new government top operate in line with openness principles […]...
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Labour cool on return to Whitehall homeworking, reports suggest
As the country goes to the ballot box today, it has been reported that senior Labour figures would be keen for the party to retain expectations for officials office attendance […]...
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Expert body calls for stats training for ministers
The Royal Statistical Society calls for additional education and claims that pandemic highlighted instances where senior parliamentarians were often unable to correctly interpret and present to the public key numbers […]...
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Home Office sets 2024 delivery date for much-delayed immigration casework system
Completed delivery of Atlas – which will replace the Case Information Database, first implemented in 2000 – has been delayed by several years, as the new system has been beset […]...
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Government rolls out online hub for evaluations
Evaluation Registry has been launched and made mandatory for all Whitehall departments, but the publicly available site that was due to go live at the same point has been delayed […]...
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Cabinet Office clarifies ‘negotiated settlement’ over tech contract
The department’s chief had previously indicated that deal had been terminated for ‘non-performance’, but has now written to MPs to apologise for this inaccuracy and reveal details of payoff agreement […]...
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