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		<title>What the civil service thinks of the coalition’s direction of travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have just surveyed 1,395 civil servants about their opinions of public service reform. What are the key capabilities that departments must improve? What civil service strengths are most at risk? What do they make of key government policies, including localism and transparency? And do they agree that it should be easier to remove poor [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>And so it came to pass…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I was passed a draft policy document that set out plans to outsource civil service training and shut the National School of Government. It has just happened, exactly as predicted.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Open Data – it ain’t that easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The coalition government is keen to give away more public sector data in an effort to stimulate the economy, something dubbed &#8216;open data.&#8217; I caught up with Vanessa Lawrence, chief executive of Ordnance Survey, to find out what her public sector trading fund thinks of the proposals. OS already gives some of its data for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Maude vs the Civil Service – Fast Stream reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, I obtained a letter to civil servants that outlined some internal discussions in Whitehall over how the civil service should look in the future &#8211; in particular, how it trains the next generation of mandarins. Maude wants to radically reform the Fast Stream graduate programme, but his ideas aren&#8217;t universally popular amongst senior civil [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Darling: A decade of stagnation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to use this blog as a place to showcase some of the interviews and features that I&#8217;ve written for Civil Service World over the past few years. First up is an interview with Alistair Darling, which was written at the later part of last year. I knew little about economics past the A [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Filling the Harley-shaped holes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was announced yesterday that government’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), Joe Harley, is leaving at the end of the financial year. This is something of a shock, because Harley has been heralded as the man who will transform government’s IT fortunes. It’s also quite concerning because his own department, DWP, has a very large IT [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do new MPs struggle to properly scrutinise policies?</title>
		<link>https://joshuachambers.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/do-new-mps-struggle-to-properly-scrutinise-policies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dame Anne Begg is a wonderful person to interview: she is insightful, incisive, and good company. Begg chairs the work and pensions select committee, and as well as talking about how media pressure caused her to become Parliament&#8217;s leading welfare policy expert because she is wheelchair bound, she discussed some of the troubles that new [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bickering Delays Open Public Services White Paper … again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First published on the Civil Service Live Network, May 9th. Still relevant. What’s going on with the Open Public Services White Paper? The bill, which is supposed to set out the government’s vision for the future delivery of public services, has been delayed once again. It was initially due in January but is now due [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cease and Dysist: why the Dylan worship has to stop</title>
		<link>https://joshuachambers.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/cease-and-dysist-why-the-dylan-worship-has-to-stop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 08:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was on the Underground the other day, clutching yet another sycophantic Dylan puff piece in a daily newspaper, and I felt compelled to scribble something down to describe my own feelings. I don&#8217;t usually write about music and probably won&#8217;t again. This is not just another Dylan piece: the troubadour has reached 70 this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The government’s special advisers</title>
		<link>https://joshuachambers.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/the-governments-special-advisers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 13:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I led a small team of reporters writing profiles of every government special adviser (spad). It was not an easy task: very early on, a senior spad informed me that he would be telling others not to co-operate, and some believed (erroneously) that providing information about themselves would breach the government code of special advisers. Yet [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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