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, civil service reform, and regulation.

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.