Societies fail if their governments are ineffective, and governments are ineffective if their civil servants are ineffective. This website accordingly examines the skills and effectiveness of the UK Civil Service. It has two parts.
- The first part - originally published as a book How to be a Civil Servant - contains a series of notes which summarise civil servants' skills, duties and responsibilities.
- The second part provides detailed information and analysis about the UK civil service and civil service reform.
The whole site contains around 120 separate pages of information. The most popular or key pages are listed below, together with links to detailed lists of content. You might also like to use this Google search tool.
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As our professional lives are currently dominated by spending cuts, readers might find it helpful to see this chart which shows the way the UK public sector deficit has grown over recent financial years, totalling £144bn last year. The government's aim is to have the blue line start to trend below the red line. Cutting civil service pay will have a part to play in this - but probably only a small part. This is because total civil service pay is less than £15bn pa, around 10% of the total public sector pay bill. Follow these links for information about Civil Service numbers, pay and pensions. |
