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What is a public appointment and how to apply for one.
Find a voluntary or paid position with public bodies, such as non-executive director, trustee, members of advisory council.
Information about ministerial appointments to a non-statutory office (known as direct appointments).
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments' advice in relation to appointments it is aware have been taken up, or announced, in 2018-2019
Information about non-executive appointments to the Department for Education’s public bodies.
Guidance for academy trusts on how to request approval from ESFA for appointing an off-payroll accounting officer or chief financial officer.
Find out more about our public appointments, latest vacancies and recent announcements.
What to do when you are leaving, or have left, Crown service or ministerial office, and you're starting another role.
The Commissioner for Public Appointments regulates the processes by which ministers make appointments to the boards of national and regional public bodies. The commissioner aims to ensure that such appointments are made on merit after a fair, open and transparent...
Advice provided by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments from 2014-15 to 2017-2018 inclusive, where an outside appointment has been taken up or announced.
The Public Appointments Data Report 2021/22 provides a diversity breakdown of public appointees.
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments' advice in relation to appointments it is aware have been taken up, or announced, in 2019-2020
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) is independent from government. ACOBA is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Cabinet Office .
This series brings together all Head of post appointments
This collection brings together all documents relating to Treasury advice given under the business appointment rules to applicants at SCS2 and SCS1 level and equivalents.
Originally established in 2001, it was renamed the Appointments Commission and was abolished in 2012.
The King has been pleased to approve the following appointments.
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