British Civil Service

British Civil Service

Current Issues and Future Challenges

Morphet, Janice

Bristol University Press

05/2025

240

Mole

Inglês

9781529234923

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Abbreviations


Preface


Introduction: What is the Civil Service For?


Introduction


The role of the civil service: an international context


How does the civil service relate to the constitution?


Is the senior civil service politically aligned?


Does the civil service have a public service or public


value obligation?





What qualifications, skills and training do civil servants have?


Pressures for reform


The civil service in the UK


How does the civil service relate to the constitution?


Is the Senior Civil Service politically aligned?


Does the civil service have a public service or public


value obligation?





What qualifications, skills and training do civil servants have?


Pressures for reform


Conclusions


What Kind of Civil Service do we Have? The Structure


of the Home Civil Service in England





Introduction


How many civil servants?


Tripartite structure of the civil service


Implementing the GPA: competition in central government


The Senior Civil Service


Functional departments


Operational departments


Issues for the civil service as an employer


Recruitment and retention


Training and development


A career for life?





How Does the Civil Service Develop Policy?


Introduction


What is policy?


What stimulates policy development?


International agreements and obligations


Political manifestos


Sofa government


External shocks: climate and humanitarian catastrophe,


economic turbulence, war





Royal Commissions and government committees


His Majesty's Inspectorates and coroners' reports


Domestic events: dangerous dogs,


NHS failures





Forthcoming elections - general and local


Ministerial entrepreneurialism


Members' ballots and individual campaigns


Donors


Lobbying by think tanks and APPG


Petitions and public demonstrations


Deliberative assemblies


Policy bandwagons


Who makes policy - ministers or civil servants?


How are policies constructed?


Recycling past approaches with new names


Copying another country - policy transfer and convergence


Policy communities and networks


Evidence based on pilots or previous policy roll out


Conclusions


How Does the Civil Service Administer Policy?


Introduction


The context for the administration of policy


Administration vs implementation and delivery


Issues to be considered when designing the administration


of policy





Demand management


Competing policies


Regulation


Redistribution


Short or long term


Determining the mechanism for delivery


King's speech


Machinery of Government


Spending reviews
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Civil Service; British Civil Service; Policy Development; Brexit; Devolution; Conservative Government; Public Administration; Public Sector Management