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Civil Service Local closure

With effect from 1 April 2022, Civil Service Local is no longer in operation.
We would like to thank you for working with us over the last 11 years, it has been a pleasure working in partnership with so many different civil servants across the full range of departments and agencies, and across the whole country.

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Civil Service Live Liverpool 25 June

Posted by: kathieb, Posted on: 24 June 2014 - Categories: North West England
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The Countdown is almost over – ONLY 1 day to go. So, it’s finally here – only one more sleep, so I’d like to take the chance to say a big thank you to everyone who’s been involved in bringing …

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Civil Service Live comes to Liverpool – 2 days to go

Posted by: Glyn Ellis Hughes, Posted on: 23 June 2014 - Categories: North West England
Liverpool, Liver buildung

The Countdown continues – Civil Service Live Liverpool (25th June) – 2 days to go. Each day in the run up to Civil Service Live 2014 Liverpool we’re highlighting a particular stand or session. Today we focus on the session …

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Civil Service Live comes to Newcastle - 10 days to go

Posted by: Michele Crawford, Posted on: 20 June 2014 - Categories: North East, Yorkshire and the Humber
view of Newcastle and bridges from Gateshead

Registration is still open for CS Live 2014 at St James’ Park in Newcastle city centre on 3 July 2014. There is a great range of workshop sessions focusing on a modern civil service, a more skilled civil service, smarter working and …

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Civil Service Live Bristol

Posted by: Nita Murphy, Posted on: 18 June 2014 - Categories: Zzz archive
photo of CS Local Team Bristol

A great day in Bristol at the first Civil Service Live event of 2014. Opened by Sir Bob Kerslake and ending with Francis Maude both celebrating the excellent work of civil servants and challenging us to continue to search for …

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Civil Service Live comes to Liverpool

Posted by: Glyn Ellis Hughes, Posted on: 16 June 2014 - Categories: North West England

The Countdown continues – Civil Service Live Liverpool (25th June) Each day in the run up to Civil Service Live 2014 Liverpool we’ll be highlighting a particular stand or session. Today we focus on the Going Forward Project stand. By …

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East midlands Academy - a great success!

Posted by: Janice Smith, Posted on: 10 June 2014 - Categories: Zzz archive

Mark from the Valuation Office Agency joined other delegates to channelled their inner dragon to pitch reform ideas to senior leaders at the east midlands academy.

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Birmingham goes digital by default

Posted by: Janice Smith, Posted on: 10 June 2014 - Categories: Midlands, Zzz archive

'Digital by Default' was the subject of a recent west midlands discovery session when  staff heard from the Government Digital Service  and the Office of the Public Guardian. The Government Digital Service gave an overview of its work and explained the background …

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Taking government services to the vulnerable in the north west

Posted by: Tariq Siddiqui, Posted on: 5 June 2014 - Categories: North West England
Chris and Chris from the Land Registry outside their office

Chris Hare and Chris Challenger of Land Registry Fylde Office didn't know what they'd learn when they volunteered for a Civil Service Local project to take government services to the vulnerable.

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Discover: Vision 21 in Manchester, 5 June

Posted by: Tariq Siddiqui and kathieb, Posted on: 2 June 2014 - Categories: North West England

Our next bite-sized learning “discovery session” is this week and focuses on Vision 21 - the vision for the Civil Service going forward. Ben Rake from the Cabinet Office will join our Civil Service Local team to lead an interactive session and …

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Keep up to date with news from the East of England

Posted by: Ian Barton, Posted on: 30 May 2014 - Categories: East, South East & London

Do you want to keep up to date with the latest news from Civil Service Local East of England? Take a look at the East of England Key Messages Bulletin for May for just a brief taster of some of the activities we …

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Dawn from HMRC shadows in DWP

Posted by: Dawn Butler, HMRC, Posted on: 22 May 2014 - Categories: North East, Yorkshire and the Humber

My name is Dawn Butler and I work in HMRC. I applied, through Civil Service Local North East, for a Job Shadowing opportunity in a Job Centre in the North East. I went to Job shadow an Employer Adviser at …

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Staff engagement network launched

Posted by: John Mark Haskey and Ian Barton, Posted on: 15 May 2014 - Categories: East, South East & London

Our annual staff survey tells us how we are performing, but it also highlights the huge differences in staff engagement scores across and even within departments and offices. This is worrying because we know that civil servants who are more …

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Walking challenge

Posted by: John Mark Haskey and Ian Barton, Posted on: 14 May 2014 - Categories: Zzz archive

We have been talking to Annette Hooper from the Charity for Civil Servants. Over the past couple of years we have been encouraging people to volunteer for the charity and you can read more about the roles needed on their web …

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How to know if being a mentor is for you

Posted by: John Mark Haskey, Posted on: 14 May 2014 - Categories: Zzz archive
two men at a mentoring event

You have some experience in the civil service. You have expertise in one or many roles. You may or may not have a qualification. Or you may just have a different viewpoint to share. Civil Service Local has been operating …

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Help required for Civil Service Live

Posted by: John Mark Haskey, Posted on: 14 May 2014 - Categories: Zzz archive

I have been asked to help recruit volunteers to help at this year's Civil Service Live. We need a large number of civil servants to take on various roles throughout the day, welcoming, registering, directing and escorting visitors and speakers around the event. …

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Renaissance and Reformation

Posted by: Mark Cassidy, Posted on: 13 May 2014 - Categories: North West England

A quiet revolution is under way, gentle yet insistent as the growing daylight at this time of year; and while the cynic in me had, at first, smiled to hear that so tenaciously traditional an institution as the Civil Service …

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Having our cake and eating it

Posted by: Mark Cassidy, Posted on: 13 May 2014 - Categories: North West England

Dress up, eat cake and help make the world a better place! - That was the challenge issued to us recently at Burnley Benefit Centre back to support our ‘Engaging Our Young People’ schools project. I spoke about it to …

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Discover mentoring: Portsmouth - 9 June

Posted by: John Mark Haskey, Posted on: 6 May 2014 - Categories: Zzz archive

In June we are hosting a 2 hour masterclass in Portsmouth to help those who are interested in becoming a mentor but are unsure of what this entails. The class will help you understand the roles and responsibilities of being a …

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Cabinet Office takes part in Engaging our Schools

Posted by: John Mark Haskey, Posted on: 2 May 2014 - Categories: A National Spotlight

Recently I was privileged to see a series of short presentations given by students from Northumberland Park School in Tottenham after they had taken part in the six-week Engaging our Schools programme. Anna Shotbolt, then on secondment with The Prince’s …

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Mentoring masterclass: Newcastle - 30 May

Posted by: Michele Crawford, Posted on: 2 May 2014 - Categories: North East, Yorkshire and the Humber

If you've ever been interested in becoming a mentor or a mentee, but didn't know what that meant or how to do it, we are running a masterclass explaining it all. The event will be run by Civil Service Learning's Dr James …

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