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  Real progress in sustainability

  As the UK plays its full part in the talks in Copenhagen to get an international deal on tackling climate change, UK civil servants are doing their bit closer to home.

  Today, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) published key performance data on Whitehall’s sustainability targets.

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  Manchester Civil Service campus plans go to consultation Plans for a new Civil Service campus near Manchester’s Piccadilly Station will go to public consultation in January.
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  Whitehall set for future challenges The latest Capability Reviews show the Civil Service is continuing to improve as it prepares to tackle the challenges of the next decade. 
   
  
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  Top civil servant honoured for exceptional service

  ‘Trailblazer’, ‘innovator’ and ‘exceptional’ are just some of the words used by colleagues to describe Lori Chilton, individual winner of the Cabinet Secretary Award and winner of the Leadership Award at the 2009 Civil Service Awards in December.

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  Civil Service Live North West 2009 in Manchester

  Around 1,800 civil servants came together for Civil Service Live North West on Monday 7 December to look at how to increase innovation in the delivery of public services.

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  'We can be passionate about better public services' – Sir Gus O'Donnell tells the Sunday Times In an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, which was published this weekend, Sir Gus O’Donnell said he wants civil servants to go that 'extra mile' when delivering public services to the disadvantaged.
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  Young people take their ideas to Cabinet Three young people from around the country today had the unique opportunity to pitch their ideas to the Prime Minister at a full Cabinet meeting.
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  Prime Minister unveils plans to streamline centre of Government Prime Minister unveils plans to streamline centre of Government
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  UK’s biggest staff survey will help improve Civil Service More than 340,000 people took part in Britain’s largest ever employee engagement survey aimed at improving innovation, efficiency and staff wellbeing in the Civil Service
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  National Identity Card launched in Manchester Members of the public who live or work in Greater Manchester can enrol for a National Identity Card from today, 30 November 2009.
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  Top negotiators seek deal on climate change

  UK civil servants are supporting ministers in seeking an international agreement to tackle the challenge of climate change. 

• Outstanding civil servants honoured in national awards ceremony

  The achievements of civil servants from across the UK were celebrated by Lord Mandelson, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, and Sir Gus O’Donnell, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service, at the fourth annual Civil Service Awards on Tuesday 17 November.

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  Refresh for Civil Service website to make browsing easier for staff and public

  An updated Civil Service website is unveiled today to make browsing easier for our thousands of visitors.

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  Black History Month (BHM)

  To celebrate this year’s Black History Month a number of Departments came together to organise a cross-government event “No more Excuses” - The power of positive role models which was held in DEFRA’s Nobel House on 5 October.

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  Big Lunch film competition winners meet Sir Gus Three budding filmmakers are celebrating after winning a Civil Service film competition aimed at showcasing a new community project.
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  Awards showcase variety of roles within Civil Service The Civil Service Awards 2009 shortlist has been announced and the nominees show how different the modern Civil Service is from the old-fashioned image of pen-pushing bureaucrats.
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  Day three: Civil Service Live - Let’s hear it for the girls

  A woman’s place is in the boardroom, says Peninah Thomson, and we couldn’t agree more.  As today’s  observations are brought to you by the letter G (for girls) and the Cabinet Office, we’d like to point out that we’re stocked to the Ministerial brim: Tessa Jowell,  Angela Smith and Shriti Vadera make up our team, thank you very much, and we have a number of women in Director roles.

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  Exam nerves, innovation and the A-Team

  Greeted in the foyer of Olympia 2 with a check-in process so efficient it would put the first class lounge of an airline to shame, I very quickly find myself registered and looking around the Civil Service stand.

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  Suits, silver service and superheroes It started with insights from Alistair Campbell on his time working for Tony Blair and ended with a request for Gus O’Donnell to dress as a superhero. Day One of Civil Service Live was certainly lively, as the Cabinet Office’s Claire Atherton reports.
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  New Civil Service job-share board launched Civil servants hoping to find a job-share partner can now use a new online job-sharing board to help match them with a suitable person.
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  Employer of Choice – Public Sector Award The Civil Service Fast Stream celebrates at The Times Graduate Recruitment Awards 2009.
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  Gus visit to Northern Ireland On Thursday 12 and Friday 13 March 2009, Gus O’Donnell visited Belfast where he met staff from the Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Civil Service. 
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  Delivering on sustainability in times of downturn

  Permanent Secretaries visited Dorset on 29 January for a joint session with Local Authority Chief Executives and other public servants to discuss how to make sure sustainability issues don’t get forgotten in the current economic downturn.

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  Civil Service Live 2009 in Gateshead

  Just over 1,600 civil servants from across the North of England and Scotland came to the Sage Centre in Gateshead on Monday 9 March for the first ever regional Civil Service Live event. They came together to hear how even in times of economic turmoil the Civil Service is still innovating to deliver excellent public services, and learn how they can have an impact on continuing to improve the services they deliver themselves.