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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.
Guidance for academy trusts on how to request approval for appointing an off-payroll accounting officer or chief financial officer.
Information about non-executive appointments to the Department for Education’s public bodies.
Information about ministerial appointments to a non-statutory office (known as direct appointments).
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has appointed Thomas Harris, Dan Jones and Dame Caroline Michel as trustees of HRP on 15 April 2025.
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments' advice in relation to appointments it is aware have been taken up, or announced, in 2018-2019
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...
What to do when you are leaving, or have left, Crown service or ministerial office, and you're starting another role.
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