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Services

  1. Government Economic Service: summer vacation placement job descriptions

    Sample job descriptions for summer vacation placement candidates.

  2. Government Economic Service summer vacation placements: application form

    Form to apply for a place on the Government Economic Service summer vacation placement scheme.

  3. The Commissioning Academy: application form

    Complete this application form to apply for a group to attend the Commissioning Academy's development programme for senior commissioners.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. National security vetting: advice for people who are being vetted
    • Guidance
    • Cabinet Office and Government Security Profession
  2. Civil Service competency framework
    • Guidance
    • Civil Service
  3. Government Security Classifications
    • Guidance
    • Cabinet Office
  4. Civil Service: values and standards of behaviour
    • Statutory guidance
    • Civil Service
  5. Civil Service management code
    • Guidance
    • Civil Service
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News and communications

Press release

FCO dedicates room celebrating LGBT+ staff and their contribution to the department

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

  1. Race to change the face of the diplomatic civil service
    • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
    • Authored article
  2. Jeremy Hunt launches reverse mentoring scheme for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff
    • Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
    • News story
  3. Civil Service transformation speech
    • Cabinet Office
    • Speech
  4. Civil Service ‘hub’ to bring growth to Cardiff
    • Cabinet Office and Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Black skin, Whitehall: Race and the Foreign Office, 1945 to 2018
    • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
    • Research
  2. Bullying, Harassment and Misconduct Review
    • Cabinet Office
    • Research
  3. Socio-economic diversity in the Fast Stream: the Bridge report
    • Cabinet Office, Civil Service, and Civil Service Fast Stream
    • Research
  4. Removing the barriers to success in the Civil Service: survey findings
    • Civil Service
    • Research
  5. Civil Service Quarterly: Issue 6
    • Cabinet Office and Civil Service
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Consultation on reform of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme
    • Cabinet Office and Civil Service
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 04 May 2016
  2. Government Commercial Operating Standards
    • Government Commercial Function
    • Policy paper
  3. Civil Service workforce plan: 2016 to 2020
    • Cabinet Office and Civil Service
    • Policy paper
  4. Talent Action Plan 2016: Removing the barriers to success
    • Cabinet Office and Civil Service
    • Policy paper
  5. Better public appointments: review of the public appointments process
    • Cabinet Office and Commissioner for Public Appointments
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Competition and Markets Authority: Civil Service people survey
    • Competition and Markets Authority
    • Corporate report
  2. DVLA Civil Service people survey
    • Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
    • Corporate report
  3. MHCLG: Civil Service people survey
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Corporate report
  4. Government evidence to the Senior Salaries Review Body on the pay of the Senior Civil Service
    • Senior Salaries Review Body and Civil Service
    • Transparency
  5. FCO diversity and equality report 2019
    • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
    • Corporate report
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