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31 Oct Commercial. From MEAT to MAT: Balancing cost control with quality in public procurement. Public sector procurement has undergone a subtle yet significant change with the transition from Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) to Most Advantageous Tender (MAT). Proxima takes a look at what this means for procurement professionals.
Civil servants to get 5% pay rise - Civil Service World
By Tevye Markson. 29 Jul 2024. Most civil servants are set to get a pay rise of around 5% this year, the Cabinet Office has said. The department published the 2024-25 pay remit guidance, which is for civil servants below the senior civil servants, this afternoon. The guidance confirms that departments will be able to offer an average pay award ...
'Very worrying': Interest in the Civil Service Fast Stream plummets
Applications to the Civil Service Fast Stream have fallen dramatically for the second year in a row, with the 2023 scheme receiving less than half the number of applicants as in 2021. Interest in the graduation scheme has now dropped three years in a row, having reached a high of 64,697 applicants in 2020. A small drop in 2021 – to 59,603 ...
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Mar 31, 2023 · The 2022 Civil Service People Survey results have finally been published. Anger over pay is the standout reaction in the poll: salary satisfaction has dropped by more than 10 percentage points to the lowest level in the People Survey's 14-year existence.
Welcome to the new Civil Service World website
26 Jun 2020. Hello, you may have noticed that there’s a new look to your Civil Service World website today. We’ve worked since the start of the year to redesign and rethink CSW’s online presence, and we’re excited to finally share the results with you. We wanted to do two things with this redesign: modernise the look and feel of the ...
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Building a great career in the civil service shouldn't depend on your background. In this guide, the Government Government Socio-Economic Diversity Network shines a light on the unwritten rules of navigating the civil service and provides officials with practical, honest and …
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03 Oct Policy. Trust in politics and government is shot. Meaningful participation could help fix it. Civil servants can play a crucial role in turning the tide by using participative approaches like citizen panels – but only if they’re well-designed and meaningful. 02 Oct HR.
Civil service grows again as diversity indicators hit record highs
Aug 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.
Hunt announces civil service headcount cap
By Tevye Markson. 02 Oct 2023. The government will cap the civil service at its current headcount of 488,000 and aim to get it down to pre-pandemic numbers. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today announced civil service “expansion” would be “frozen” and a plan would be put in place to return to its size before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read the summer 2023 issue of Civil Service World
Jun 26, 2023 · In the latest issue of Civil Service World, we asked a cross-section of officials to review the large language model as part of our exploration into what the next frontiers of AI might mean for government. We also meet inspiring civil servants from across government – from leaders like Sarah Munby (perm sec of the new Department for Science ...