Tevye Markson

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Home/Office: Great Britain and Northern Ireland This new series explores how civil services in other countries have approached the hybrid working conundrum. To kick things off, CSW takes a look a...

The first in the series is on the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales, and the Northern Ireland Civil Service. Look out for the next one which will be on a close neighbour
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To kick things off, we've launched a new series looking at hybrid working policies in civil services around the world and how they compare to the UK civil service.

I'm delighted to announce I'm now Online Editor at Civil Service World (@civilserviceworld.bsky.social). I'm looking forward to shaping our online coverage for civil servants – from news, op-eds and long-read features, to our daily newsletter.

'No one department owns all the bright ideas': An interview with standards watchdog Doug Chalmers Committee on Standards in Public Life chair speaks to CSW about empathy, rapport and why 'zigzagging between departments is a really healthy thing'

Now we know the Committee on Standards in Public Life will become the beefed-up Ethics and Integrity Commission, here's what CSPL chair Doug Chalmers had to say to @tevyemarkson.bsky.social recently on empathy, rapport and "zigzagging between departments": www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/art...

An Open Letter to Arsenal Football Club Today, the news broke that Thomas Partey, an Arsenal player until the beginning of this month, is being prosecuted for five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.

I'm planning on continuing to talk about Thomas Partey, Arsenal and rape culture as long as it is a problem within football
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PCS announces six weeks of strikes at Civil Service Pension Scheme administrator MyCSP Dispute centres on the lack of formal recognition for the union ahead of the transfer of staff to outsourcing giant Capita

MyCSP dispute centres on the lack of formal recognition for PCS ahead of the transfer of staff to outsourcing giant Capita
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MoD and NHS to open joint medical centre at Catterick Garrison Catterick Integrated Care Centre will treat military personnel and their families as well as members of the public

First-of-its-kind health partnership will employ more than 300 medical personnel from the MoD and the NHS
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How do we restore trust between ministers and civil servants? The Civil Service World Podcast · Episode

In this episode CSW editor-in-chief Jess Bowie talks to Tom Brown, author of The Mind of the Minister, about the unique relationship between senior civil servants and politicians
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DWP and University of Sheffield win award for campus partnership Judges said Sheffield Campus partnership had 'an incredible multi-year strategy, with societal impact beyond employability'

Judges said Sheffield Campus partnership had "an incredible multi-year strategy, with societal impact beyond employability"
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Treasury working with departments to build integrated finance system Tech will give HMT and departments real-time shared understanding of their performance against budgets and objectives

New cross-government digital system will give the exchequer and departments a shared understanding in real time of how they are performing against their budgets and objectives
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Hybrid working: 60% in office is Scottish Government’s ‘ultimate aim’ FoI documents reveal Scottish Government's office and home-working plans

FoI documents reveal Scottish Government's office and home-working plans
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This sounds like the basis of what could be a really interesting comment piece for our readers (Civil Service World). Would you be interested in writing something?

More seriously, I was interested by your comment: "We'll have to wait and see how transformative the interventions will be—but it's encouraging to see a genuinely whole-of-government framework, with a clear effort to align policy levers across departments".

Tera Allas Tera Allas joined BIS as Director General for Strategy, Analysis and Better Regulation in January 2011. In addition to her departmental duties, Tera is also the Deputy Head of the Government Economic ...

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Tera your background in the civil service is very impressive. Must be a record! 😆

Now it's giving everything was shit (first song) now everything is going be great (second song)

What's with the emotional guitar music on Sky News before Keir Starmer's AI speech? Sad Monday morning vibes. Ok now we have something more upbeat...

Cafes, please stop putting food on top of napkins

Baroness Meyer faces suspension over offensive racial remark Baroness Meyer called a fellow peer of Indian origin

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3 weeks what a joke

Wrote this as an AI image prompt but too scary to share

A civil servant lying in a bath suddenly darts out and runs outside to find an apple cart and dashes it with all the apples to the ground and screams "IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED?!!!!!". Then sighs and walks back to their bath and continues to lay in it

Having minions bring you in steak for lunch is certainly an interesting definition of being working class. And how can sandwiches not be food but be breakfast? So much to unpack...

Civil servants are hungry for reform, but Starmer's 'tepid bath' jibe has done a lot of damage Starmer has undermined the leadership of the civil service in the very week that he appointed a new cabinet secretary

"Tepid Bathgate" needs fixing, and quickly, says the FDA's general secretary Dave Penman
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Starmer asks civil service to be 'emboldened to upset the apple cart' Email to civil servants promises that ministers will provide the leadership officials need for delivery

NEW: Starmer writes to civil servants promising that his ministers will provide the leadership officials need to deliver and asking them to be "emboldened to upset the apple cart"
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Chris Wormald named cabinet secretary DHSC permanent secretary will replace Simon Case as head of civil service

DHSC permanent secretary Sir Chris Wormald has been named as the next cabinet secretary, replacing Simon Case www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...

Civil service being marginalised and over-politicised, former cab secs warn Political staff in No.10 'have almost completely taken over', former top civil servants say

As well as criticising over-politicisation at No.10, ex cabinet secretary Lord Butler also took aim at Americanisation. He said the concept of having a “chief of staff” is “like chewing gum and Halloween: an unwelcome import from the United States”.
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Is DESNZ’s HQ the government’s most crowded office? CSW takes a look at recently-released data on desk space across government

NEW @civilserviceworld.bsky.social deep dive. I took a look at recently-released data on desk space across government and asked what DESNZ has been doing to address capacity concerns at its HQ
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'No religion' becomes largest faith group in the civil service Around 15% of civil servants now report that they have no religion, up from 10% five years ago

Faith in the civil service - @tevyemarkson.bsky.social talking to @teodorgrama.bsky.social

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