GOVERNMENT ZONE
- Central government
- Defence Management
- Devolved government
- Education
- Health and social care
- Home affairs
- Local government
- Transport
AREA OF INTEREST
BLOGS
Cheating and lying in the public sector
Fiddling the figures in the public sector is not as unusual you may think. What’s the point of statistics if you can’t have confidence in their accuracy?
Shared goals for an era of change
Tightened budgets, shrinking tax revenues and a possible incoming Conservative administration focused on greater private sector influence in Whitehall mean an era of uneasy change ahead for civil servants.
A school's role goes way beyond its gates
Schools can support the vulnerable, make perpetrators understand the consequence of their actions at an early stage, cut down on the number of abused people, on broken families and even on crime itself
Optimism hides a stark warning
One of the inbuilt perils of being in government is that it is well-nigh impossible to stop talking up expectations in public services
THE THINGS THEY SAY...
Every day, I wake up in a state of wonderment that I've been elected - obviously, knowing millions of others wake up in a state of wonderment that I have been elected too. 
Public Servant magazine and Public Servant online have a finger on the pulse of public sector operations and offer interesting and informed reports and reviews of what is going on in Whitehall. They are a useful supplementary source of information for the Office of Government Commerce