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Civil Service Syndrome
Talkback Over several decades of interacting with the civil service I became well aware of the civil service syndrome. Unfortunately, in the civil service, there is no such thing as failure and those who had responsibility are rapidly promoted and moved...
[June 23, 2009, 9:43]
Civil Service Failures
Talkback Yet again we have another costly management failure in the Civil Service - and yet again there is no acceptance of responsibility by those responsible for the waste. Senior and middle management must be made to take career responsibility for their...
[December 16, 2008, 12:28]
Civil service will spend £2.5b on IT this year
News The Civil Service IS Market Profile 1997' costs £3,950. London-based Kable says IT spend has been on an eight per cent of total budget plateau for several years. One interesting movement is towards outsourcing which accounted for just £23 million...
[April 16, 1997, 16:31]
Civil Service denies email foul play
News The Civil Service department insisted the move was part of an ongoing management policy to avoid wasting taxpayers' money and not a way of ducking the Freedom of Information Act (FoI). But many inside Parliament have criticised the Civil Service...
[December 20, 2004, 12:30]
HP Frees Italy's Civil Service From Supplier Anarchy
White Papers The Italian Civil Service has for some time been in the throes of a technological evolution aimed at improving both direct and indirect levels of service to the public. When Italy's civil service embarked on a technological revolution aimed at...
[May 24, 2006, 0:00]
Tech investment hits civil service jobs
News Chancellor Gordon Brown has said the government's investment in technology paved the way for impending civil service job cuts. The headlines have emphasised his announcement that 104,000 civil service jobs will be shed around the UK in order to...
[July 13, 2004, 10:45]
Civil Service denies email foul play
Talkback This is typical of a government in crisis. Delete everything and they 'hope' they cannot be caught. It's time for change - pity there is no credible opposition!
[December 22, 2004, 0:55]
Five years ago: Civil service will spend £2.5b on IT this year
News First published 14 April, 1997. London-based Kable says IT spend has been on an eight per cent of total budget plateau for several years. One interesting movement is towards outsourcing which accounted for just £23 million in 1993/94 but swelled to...
[April 13, 2002, 7:01]
Spendthrift Labour and It's Civil Service
Talkback This is so typical of the continuous spending with nothing to show for it - even Gordon Brown couldn't call this investing! and not the slightest thought about the ever increasing public debt.
[July 13, 2009, 16:00]
Super Civil Service
Talkback Having spent a period of time with one part of the UN, I am well aware that it is a creaking poorly organised organisation, grossly inefficient and full of well meaning people. The leaders are all determined that their part of the organisation will...
[January 16, 2009, 17:29]
Who pays???
Talkback This typifies thinking in government, both political and civil service, that programmes can be funded by various different organisations rather than tax payer funded government purse. Everything is paid for from the earnings of those who work to...
[March 18, 2008, 14:54]
Lack of Parliamentary Control
Talkback To me this is another example of the Civil Service establishment with but vague ministerial approval introducing a grossly expensive scheme without proper approval in Parliament. While ministers and their immediate Civil Service subordinates should...
[August 5, 2008, 9:36]
Northern Ireland orders data-protection review
News The Northern Ireland finance minister has ordered an immediate review of data-protection systems in the Northern Ireland civil service. The need for vigilance within our civil service was reinforced last August through internal guidance issued to...
[November 22, 2007, 10:02]
Government high-tech plans to shake up Whitehall
News The government is to launch an electronic information system aimed at streamlining the civil service and eliminating bureaucracy, it was announced last week. Labour MP and head of the all-party Internet group Derek Wyatt believes that more...
[January 11, 2000, 9:34]
No Chance
Talkback While I agree 100% and affirm that I have been in exactly the same position as you, the chances of getting civil service joint and several liability through the civil service are considerably less than zero.
[September 7, 2009, 18:46]
EU backs ISPs over file-sharing
News The highest court in the EU ruled on Tuesday that, in civil cases, internet service providers should not have to disclose the names of those sharing files over their networks. However, the organisation wanted this information with a view to...
[January 30, 2008, 13:55]
Stern medicine needed for NHS IT failings
Leader Put it in harness with a government and civil service big on posturing but with little real understanding of technology and computing, and you don't need seven years of medical school to diagnose the malady.
[October 12, 2004, 13:20]
Home Office admits to database breaches
News In a response to a parliamentary question at the end of last week, the Home Office said it had had five security breaches in five years, mostly caused by civil service staff. Many security experts have cast doubts over how secure an ID card system...
[August 31, 2006, 9:40]
Living in a bubble environment
Talkback The civil service should recruit to fill at least 50% of vacancies at ALL levels from outside the service, thus bringing new life and freshness and a whole new outlook to work in the civil service. The civil servant enters and lives in an...
[February 6, 2007, 11:01]
NHS IT: A critical case for treatment
Leader The civil service is in open disarray. What we can expect is for the civil service to effectively mediate, telling the politicians what is and is not possible while keeping a firm grip on contract management.
[November 14, 2005, 13:00]
