In January 2026, Fiona Cannon added her name to the 70-strong list of candidates applying to take on the role of commissioner ...

A National Crime Agency officer who was jailed for stealing cryptocurrency while he was investigating crime on the dark web has been hit with a confiscation order for more than £1.8m. Paul Chowles, ...

The government is continuing to recruit fewer fast streamers, with the amount recommended for appointment this year less than ...

The Department for Work and Pensions is boosting its civil service headcount by onboarding 2,700 outsourced workers who are ...

The state no longer just designs policy; it runs vast, complex operational systems, from prisons to jobcentres. Citizens no ...

Burnham needed to embed a core purpose for his reconfigured centre. The party conference has made that purpose much clearer ...

Burnham announced Great British Grid, a new publicly-owned body within Great British Energy that will "challenge" private ...

Public confidence is shaped by the services government delivers, and by the partners it trusts to deliver them. Gary Gates, ...

Huw Leslie has been named as the first director of the newly launched AI Economics Institute. He will join the ...

Government chief scientific adviser Angela McLean says toolkit will help officials make connections 'with greater confidence' ...

Susan Acland-Hood is permanent secretary at the Department for Education and head of the policy profession. Policy Festival 2026 is open exclusively to serving UK civil and public servants, including ...

There are hundreds of contracts where outsourced workers are getting a raw deal. Insourcing is the way forward ...