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Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has supported the recommendations of a new report into civil service reform. Credit: Policy Exchange/Flickr The renewal of UK permanent secretaries’ contracts should be based upon their performance against goals set out by ministers, a think tank has advised in a report backed by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove. The recommendation was included in a report published on Monday by Policy Exchange, a centre-right think tank with links to the governing Conservative Party. It convened a commission to consider civil service reform and modernisation, includ...

Britain’s Government Digital Service sets out new three year strategy Read later Audio version Summary: The Government Digital Service (GDS) has said that it is no longer in start-up mode and has cited what it won’t be focusing on. (Image sourced via GDS website) Britain's recently appointed CEO of the Government Digital Service (GDS) has unveiled the central Whitehall organization's latest strategy, covering the period 2021 to 2024. Tom Read believes that given GDS's position at the center of government, it is still perfectly positioned to look at the work of digital teams across gover...

Topics The Government Digital Service (GDS) will focus on joining up services, identities and data over the next three years, its chief executive Tom Read has said. In a blog on GDS’s strategy from 2021 to 2024, Read outlined five goals for the service with three concerned with joining up. One is to set up a single digital identity system covering all departments that will learn from the experience of GOV.UK Verify, which was recently extended to April 2023. Read said this identity system has to work for everyone, including someone leaving prison who does not have a fixed address, and will...

Digital Government From: 13 May 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) Good morning everyone, and many thanks to Govnet for inviting me here today and giving me the opportunity to share the plans and priorities for the Digital, Data and Technology Function for the coming year, led by the Central Digital and Data Office. The theme of the next two days is enhancing government to citizen engagement through the digital evolution, and there is so much to talk about as always. Earlier this year, the Cabinet Office announced the new DDaT leadership team. The appointments of...

Scores of GDS staff moved to new Central Digital and Data Office Responsibility for controls and standards has been taken on by new entity The east London headquarters of GDS and CDDO. Credit: Derwent London 13 May 2021 In the last month, scores of staff from the Government Digital Service have moved over to the newly established Central Digital and Data Office, which has taken on a range of standards and controls functions that were previously the remit of GDS. CDDO, which is led by former Home Office digital chief Joanna Davinson, now holds responsibility for managing and implementing all ...