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'Stark' drop in real-terms civil service pay at all grades since 2010 ...
WEB31 Jan 2023. Real-terms pay has dropped "starkly" at all civil service grades since 2010, with senior civil service wages dropping by nearly a quarter in that time, a new analysis has found. This cut in spending power at all levels of the civil service is fuelling record levels of exits and putting off top talent – all while failing to ...
Civil Service People Survey: Engagement and pay satisfaction …
WEB11 May 2021. Staff engagement hit a new high as officials worked to meet the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and the UK’s departure from the EU, the results of the latest Civil Service People Survey reveal. The data, which was given an unusually low-key release by the Cabinet Office, also showed pay satisfaction among civil servants at ...
McFadden: Next civil service pay award will be 'as close to start of ...
WEB4 days ago · The government is aiming to announce next year’s civil service pay awards “as close to the start of the pay year” as possible, Pat McFadden has said. In a letter to the Senior Salaries Review Body, officially kicking off the 2025-26 pay round, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said public sector workers "deserve timely pay awards ...
Why civil servants are leaving and other concerning scores: What …
WEBMar 31, 2023 · The 2022 Civil Service People Survey results have finally been published. Anger over pay is the standout reaction in the poll: salary satisfaction has dropped by more than 10 percentage points to the lowest level in the People Survey's 14-year existence.
Redundancies, recruitment freezes and 'deprioritisation': 10 things …
WEBJun 10, 2022 · Senior officials have been told to model reductions of 20%, 30% and 40% to their departmental headcounts, to help the government meet the PM's goal of cutting 91,000 civil service jobs over the next three years.
'Great news': Former cab sec welcomes increased Fast Stream …
WEB1 day ago · Former cabinet secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell has welcomed the increase in applications to the Fast Stream this year. Earlier this week, Civil Service World reported on the newly-published data for fast stream applications to the 2024 intake which showed a big rise in interest following three years of falling numbers of applicants. Speaking to CSW, O’Donnell said: “This is great news.
'It has felt increasingly hard to get things done': Why civil servants ...
WEB25 May 2023. Civil servants are leaving their jobs at the highest rate in a decade. Some 44,000 officials departed in 2021-22, half of them resignations. The government says large numbers are leaving “naturally” because so many have joined since 2016, while many jobs related to Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic have also been phased out.
Civil service grows again as diversity indicators hit record highs
WEBAug 2, 2023 · Women now make up 54.6% of the civil service in 2023, a 0.1 percentage point uptick on 2022. But the increase in representation at Grade 6/7 and in the SCS is more significant. At SCS level, 47.9% of roles are now held by women, compared to 47.2% a year ago. At G6/G7 level, 49.5% of officials are women, up from 48.9% in 2022.
Read the October 2021 edition of Civil Service World
WEBNov 4, 2021 · Read the issue here. Cop26 will be the largest international event ever held in the UK, with almost 25,000 people expected in Glasgow from the 31st of October for the most important talks on the global response to climate change since …