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A practical guide to addressing Scope 3 within the public sector. Using insights from the 2024 Scope 3 Maturity Benchmark Report, Beth Bradley-Smith, Principal Consultant at Proxima, discusses public sector decarbonisation challenges and offers practical guidance on addressing sustainability initiatives.
Latest civil service & public affairs moves – October 21
8 hours ago · Committee of Selection – Jessica Morden appointed as chair; Joy Morrissey and Tom Morrison added; Stuart Anderson and Wendy Chamberlain discharged. Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments – Bernard Jenkin appointed as chair; Lewis Atkinson, Mark Ferguson, Claire Hughes, Gordon McKee, Charlie Maynard and Julie Minns appointed as members.
Are government skills future ready? - civilserviceworld.com
8 hours ago · 21 Oct 2024. Every government has to ask itself whether it has the skills to do what the public wants – to manage large projects, run complex welfare systems, tackle entrenched disadvantage or handle emergencies like pandemics. There’s often a gap between needs and capabilities, and this manifests in lots of ways: policy failures, botched ...
'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 ...
DWP watchdog seeks 'urgent reassurance' over Pension Credit …
8 hours ago · 21 Oct 2024. The Department for Work and Pensions’ independent advisor on social security has asked for "urgent reassurance” that processing delays will not stop eligible pensioners from receiving Winter Fuel Payments this year. The Social Security Advisory Committee has raised several concerns with the DWP after scrutinising the Winter ...
'Stark' drop in real-terms civil service pay at all grades since 2010 ...
31 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 ...
News - Civil Service World magazine
by Tevye Markson. 18 Oct Justice & Home Affairs. MoJ boosts magistrates' sentencing powers to ease crown court pressures. 18 Oct HR. SSRB gets new permanent chair after two-year job hunt. 18 Oct HR. Entries open for award celebrating civil service recruitment excellence. 18 Oct Digital, Data & Technology.
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.
Redundancies, recruitment freezes and 'deprioritisation': 10 things …
Jun 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.
PCS conference votes for new strike strategy, including demand …
By Tevye Markson. 22 May 2024. Members of PCS – the civil service’s biggest union – have voted for a change in direction to the union’s national strike campaign, including an added demand to boost the civil service headcount by 100,000. Delegates at PCS’s annual conference in Brighton yesterday rejected a motion tabled by the union ...