Civil Service

A survey reveals that senior civil servants think their leaders are not up to scratch in most Whitehall departments.

Most senior senior civil servants think government departments are no good at performance management and change management

Sir Gus O'Donnell, the head of the Civil Service, today launched a new Civil Service Code, which details the standards of behaviour expected from civil servants, and will now form part of their contract of employment

Government statistics have revealed high levels of bullying, dissatisfaction and low morale among workers across Whitehall and the Civil Service.

A radical shake-up of the structure of the Civil Service would lead to more accountability and improve the performance of Whitehall departments, according to the conclusions of a year-long study.

The civil service is poorly managed and in desperate need of reform, a major report has claimed.

Concern over how change is managed and fears about job security are rife throughout the Civil Service, internal Whitehall department staff surveys have revealed

Sickness absence in the Civil Service fell by an average of one day per person in 2004, with 40% of staff taking no sick leave at all, according to the latest government figures

Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union working in Jobcentres, benefit offices, pension centres and the Child Support Agency have voted to strike in a dispute over service levels and job cuts

The chief executive of the Law Society is to become the new First Civil Service Commissioner, in charge of making sure recruitment in the Civil Service is open and equal

Members of the Scottish Parliament are furious at news that 16 senior civil servants in the Scottish Executive are to share a ‘golden goodbye’ totalling £1.8m on top of their pensions

The government has saved £4.7bn so far by implementing the recommendations of the Gershon efficiency review, chancellor Gordon Brown announced on Monday

The government is making progress in reducing sickness absence across the Civil Service, but more needs to be done, according...

Newly-published Civil Service sickness figures for 2004 have highlighted the massive disparity between the best- and worst-performing government departments

Private sector employers should learn from their public sector counterparts when it comes to promoting diversity, according to the UK's top civil servant