Public Sector HR & Training News

• £22m fund launched to boost construction skills
• Highways England throws open its doors for budding engineers
• Review launched to encourage more disabled people to take up high profile public appointments
• Adult Education Budget (AEB) 2018 to 2019 increased flexibility for learners in receipt of low wage
• Five new commissioners appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission
• New Government Chief Property Officer appointed
• New Housing Secretary appointed
• Appointment of new Chair of the Civil Service Commissioners for Northern Ireland
• Sir Simon Bollom appointed Chief Executive of Defence Equipment and Support
• Government appoints new board members to the UK Atomic Energy Authority
• Government hits target of 2,500 new prison officers 7 months ahead of schedule
• New ‘Find a Job’ service to support thousands of jobseekers into work
• Help for nursing students affected by loan overpayments
• New Director General of the Propriety and Ethics Team: Helen MacNamara
• Appointment of Edward Timpson CBE as new CAFCASS Chair
• Ciara Eastell appointed to Arts Council England
• Recruitment for new Director of Public Prosecutions to be launched
• Amanda Spielman speech to Annual Apprenticeships Conference
• VisitEngland Appointment
• Appointments to National Park Authority and AONB Conservation Boards
• Apprenticeships and Skills Minister celebrates National Apprenticeship Week
• New bursary to get veterans into teaching
• A new apprenticeship programme kicks off National Apprenticeship Week 2018
• Applications now open
• 48 charities and non-profits attend Brightman’s GDPR workshops
• Measures announced to ensure talented trainees get into teaching
• National College for Nuclear opens its doors in Cumbria
• Julie Lennard appointed interim Chief Executive of DVLA
• Police and National Crime Agency remuneration review bodies - chair and members
• Food and Drink Sector Council meets for first time
• Prime Minister announces £20 million Institute of Coding
• Search for leader of Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation launched
• Anne Milton: speech at Bett show 2018
• Anne Milton: speech at Sixth Form Colleges Association conference
• DBS basic checks - coming soon
• Charles Forte appointed new MOD Chief Information Officer
• Boost to get more top professionals into teaching
• Multimillion-pound contracts awarded for apprenticeship training
• Justice Secretary pledges commitment to tackling racial inequality in the Criminal Justice System
• Government commits to increase diversity of all public appointments by 2022
• £170m competition launched for new Institutes of Technology
• Hilary Florek appointed Chair of the Marine Management Organisation
• BEIS: Civil Service people survey 2017
• More cancer specialists to be employed by the NHS
• Strategy seeks one million more disabled people in work by 2027
• Purposeful branding: too good to be true?
• What can internal communications learn from Social Media?
• Universities Minister breaks ground at the Dyson Institute
• Apprenticeship Live broadcasts in schools
• Basic disclosure changes
• Do you want to be a Data Scientist at Dstl?
• Thousands of higher and degree apprenticeship vacancies announced
• Plans to further boost teacher recruitment and development
• Appointment of Mike Parsons as Director General of the Government Property Unit
• HS2 appoints Neil Hayward as new HR director
• Anne Milton: Good careers advice helps you to a rewarding career
• New Government Envoy for the Year of Engineering announced
• Do you want to be a Data Scientist at Dstl?
• New support for flexible working in schools pledged at summit
• Ministerial appointments: 27 October 2017
• Unpaid internships are damaging to social mobility
• New route into classroom for aspiring teachers
• Prison officer recruitment passes halfway target
• Higher executive officer role available at the Intellectual Property Office
• Appointments to the Civil Justice Council
• Jeremy Hunt announces salary supplement for trainee GPs
• Education Secretary announces first new T levels
• Education Secretary opens new high speed rail college
• Institute for Apprenticeships launches new website
• New Minister for Trade and Export Promotion starts at the Department for International Trade
• Office for Life Sciences appoints new Director
• New Chair of the Defence Science Expert Committee appointed
• Dstl is looking for out-of-this-world space scientists to join its programme
• New rail academy to train 500 apprentices opened by Transport Secretary
• Dstl opens graduate recruitment scheme for 2017
• Health Secretary announces nursing workforce reforms
• Sir Theodore Agnew appointed as minister
• Culture Secretary appoints Ofcom board member
• Government extends suspension of minimum wage enforcement in the social care sector
• New members of the Council for Science and Technology confirmed
• Home Office advertises for extremism commissioner
• HMRC’s Executive Chair to step down
• New training opportunities for thousands of teachers
• Public sector pay awards confirmed for 2017/18
• Deputy Chief Economist role
• Skills Minister John Hayes brings together transport and further and higher education experts in new advisory group
• Record numbers of new prison officer recruits
• Come and work at DVLA
• Vacancy: Finance Officer
• Why You Should Be Advertising On Bing
• Applications open for new trainee government lawyers
• Transport investment boost to apprenticeships and skills
• Justine Greening: Speech at the Business and Education Summit
• £100 million Rutherford Fund to attract best researchers to the UK
• Department for Education Reports Gender Pay Gap
• Vacancy: Receptionist
• New Chief Executive for Calderdale
• Our Economists talking about the exciting opportunities in the Government Economic Service
• Data Science Accelerator now open for applications
• Ofcom Board Member appointed
• View Gender Pay Gap Information
• New Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport
• Public and crown servants can now join the GSE profession
• New levy to double annual investment in home-grown skills
• Institute for Apprenticeships to ensure quality skills training
• Report shows change in NHS workforce over time
• Public sector pay awards for 2017-18
• Talented graduates wanted for career in social work
• Business Minister Margot James urges FTSE 350 chief executives to improve diversity and inclusion
• Professor Andrew Thompson appointed Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Council
• Inspection of apprenticeships from May 2017
• Foreign Secretary appoints new GCHQ Director
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• Huge response to join cyber security apprenticeship scheme
• A generation to drive society forward
• Jobsgopublic release new white paper to aid employers in their apprentice recruitment
• Secretary of State member appointments to six English National Park Authorities
• Cabinet office: new senior appointments and changes
• 750 apprenticeships in government open for applications
• New government guidelines will end the practice of boomerang bosses
• New ministers for life sciences
• Chairman of new BBC Board is formally appointed
• Susan Park appointed as Director General, Universal Credit operations
• Charlotte Hogg appointed new Deputy Governor, Markets and Banking
• Robert Halfon: BETT 2017 speech
• Robert Halfon: careers speech at Westminster Academy
• New interim Chief Executive announced for the Rural Payments Agency
• Department for International Trade Director of Communications Appointment
• UK Statistics Authority chair appointment
• Thousands of apprentices set to transform the public sector
• New Board chairman appointed
• New Director for Corporate Strategy, Ofsted
• Industry professionals to lead technical education panels
• Justice minister opens first Halfords Training Academy for female prisoners
• Justice minister opens Timpson’s training academy for female prisoners
• Covenant means coding careers for military community as Amazon Web Services sign up
• Lord Chancellor welcomes historic promotion of talent for new silks
• Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport reappoints Sport England Chair
• Michael King appointed as new Local Government Ombudsman
• Tom Smith appointed Chairman of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
• Nick Walkley appointed Chief Executive of the HCA
• Funding awarded to Education and Training Foundation
• New nursing degree apprenticeship
• Robert Halfon: Association of Colleges Conference 2016
• Apprenticeships in spotlight at skills show
• Millions invested in degree apprenticeships
• Skills Minister and Crossrail’s 600th apprentice mark the start of ‘Tomorrow’s Engineers Week’
• More support planned for part-time and doctoral degree students
• UK Government passes power to set teachers' pay to Cardiff Bay
• Young Londoners Sample Life as a Treasury Official
• Find apprenticeship training tool is now live
• Technical education fit for the workforce of tomorrow
• Applications open for chair of new Office for Students
• Search begins for the Chair of the new BBC Board
• New apprenticeship funding to transform investment in skills
• Supporting apprenticeships
• New Director General, Financial Services appointed at the Treasury
• Roy Hill to join HS2 as interim Chief Executive
• New Highways Academy to train A14 apprentices
• Recruitment of schools adjudicators
• Latest employer survey results show high satisfaction with providers
• Jim Harra appointed as HMRC’s new Tax Assurance Commissioner
• Internal Comms with Impact
• National College of High Speed Rail takes major step towards completion
• Up to 1,500 extra medical training places announced
• New Chief Executive for Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service
• Government plans to make the UK one of the most digitally-skilled nations
• Sarah Rapson to leave Home Office
• Civil Service Fast Stream opens to recruit the brightest and best UK graduates
• CCS appoints new commercial specialists
• Shadow CEO for the Institute for Apprenticeships announced
• Ofsted welcomes 31 new apprentices
• Government reforms to public sector exit payments confirmed
• National Apprenticeship Week 2017 date announced
• Culture Secretary extends term of Chair of Royal Armouries
• Appointments to the Prison Service Pay Review Body
• Employment reaches a record high with 31.77 million people in work
• Free workshops to help NHS trusts manage their workforce needs
• Global search launched to recruit Permanent Secretary for Department for International Trade
• Announcement of Health and Safety Executive appointments
• Employers and training providers to road-test the new digital apprenticeship service
• Work placements boosting prospects of young people
• Prime Minister orders government audit to tackle racial disparities in public service outcomes
• Certification Officer: amendments to the lists
• Secretary of State appoints new member to Natural England Board
• Graduate opportunities at Highways England
• New apprenticeship centre to help resolve skills shortages
• UKCES' Employer Perspectives Survey 2016 concludes fieldwork
• Civil Service pilots new social mobility measures
• Senior management changes at Ofqual
• Views sought on plans to boost apprenticeships
• DfE ministerial appointments 2016
• Universities and small businesses lose out by not working together
• New directors appointed to Civil Service Learning
• 5 tips to improve your current website design
• Plans for changing healthcare education funding
• Emma Howard Boyd announced as preferred candidate for Chairman of the Environment Agency
• Workforce future plan: Matt Hancock speech
• Further education and skills providers falling short in protecting learners from risk of extremism
• Technical education overhaul unveiled by Skills Minister
• Natural England is set to double its number of apprentices
• Permanent Secretary appointed to lead the new EU unit in Cabinet Office
• The UK is looking for a candidate to be nominated as the High Commissioner on National Minorities at the OSCE
• Dstl – Supporting National Women in Engineering Day 2016
• The Public Sector Fox - Twelve ways to become a brilliant public sector manager
• Economic Secretary to the Treasury's keynote speech at Women in Banking and Finance Awards
• BHS: update on support for workers, pension schemes and the investigation
• Thousands of apprentices to take part in major pay study
• Higher Education and Research Bill to deliver choice and opportunity for students
• Fit for the future: public health people
• UKCES' Employer Perspectives Survey 2016 now underway
• Nicky Morgan at the Careers & Enterprise Company Conference
• New Foresight project to explore lifelong learning
• Nicky Morgan: Leicester Enterprise Adviser Network launch
• Graduate opportunities: Highways England
• Free workshops for NHS trusts: implementing the new agency rules
• Three million quality apprenticeships
• Rising to the top: why the government is committed to apprenticeships
• NW Launch of Mindful Nation UK report taking place in Salford Media City
• Digital Predictions for 2016
• Plan to end inequality in the public sector
• Government and industry unite to drive UK rail growth
• Pioneering LinkedIn project to change the face of recruitment in Manchester
• Employers facing talent poverty as skills shortages rise 130% in four years
• New NHS apprenticeships
• Ministers call on public sector to open doors to apprentices
• Government puts top businesses at the heart of apprenticeship drive
• A diverse apprenticeship for a diverse society
• Civil Service Fast Stream second round application window opens 1 February 2016
• NHS clampdown on staffing agencies saves millions of pounds
• Government calls time on public sector parachute payments for boomerang bosses
• Thousands more find work through jobs scheme
• Award of learning contracts to provide training for civil servants
• PM: We will not stand by – failing children's services will be taken over
• Sir Michael Wilshaw at Business and Education Summit
• PM Speech: This is a government that delivers
• Apprenticeships offer young people a chance to reach their potential
• Chancellor George Osborne's Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 speech
• Research finds women paid less than men in 90% of sectors
• Technical and professional education revolution continues
• The Skills Challenge
• Junior doctors' contract offer
• National teacher recruitment drive gets underway
• Army chefs lead the way thanks to quality apprenticeships
• PM: Time to end discrimination and finish the fight for real equality
• Too many apprenticeships not meeting the needs of young people, employers or the economy
• Women on top as skills gap widens
• Restrictions on nurse recruitment from overseas changed
• More people than ever are doing an apprenticeship
• Clampdown on NHS staffing agency costs
• Monitor approves temporary health staff agreements
• Top graduates to get up to £30k to train to teach core subjects
• Speech given by Harriett Baldwin at the launch of the 6th FTSE '100 Women to Watch'
• New experts appointed to help improve initial teacher training
• Employment Minister: ‘recruitment diversity holds key to unlocking skills gap’
• Brandon Lewis calls on youngsters to build a career in construction
• Fast Stream looks to recruit diverse future civil service leaders
• New rules launched to reduce agency spend in the NHS
• 2,000 starts by young people every week into work experience or sector-based work academies
• Advisory Committee on Business Appointments publishes Annual Report
• Civil Service Fast Stream to reopen for applications on 1 September 2015
• Make your views heard: BIS apprenticeship levy consultation
• Government commits to civil service excellence with new learning and development contract
• CCS supports Government's apprenticeships pledge
• Building apprenticeships in transport sector at heart of government infrastructure investment plans
• Young people NEET hits record low
• Hancock: Every young person should be earning or learning from April 2017
• Employment figures in Wales reach record high
• All public sector employees who work directly with the public to have fluent English
• How sustainable is motivation in a low or zero pay rise environment?
• Young people can help renew Britain's transport networks
• New agreement launched to help the NHS meet temporary worker needs
• On target for a higher skilled workforce
• New agreement launched to help NHS reduce reliance on agency staff
• New cyber security training to boost procurement security
• Festival of education: Wellington College
• Britain’s fastest-growing companies to support apprenticeship recruitment
• Real wage growth highest in 7 years
• Government kick-starts plans to reach 3 million apprenticeships
• Hospital productivity report shows how NHS can make large savings
• Opening up education
• One year on: supporting female talent in the energy sector
• Clampdown on staffing agencies charging NHS extortionate rates
• Improving working lives for women in the care, cleaning and catering industries
• £11 million EU-backed project to promote gender equality in Wales’ workplaces
• Further education colleges awarded £20 million to improve estates
• Vince Cable announces successful partners delivering £20m adult skills project to help mental health
• Government announces refreshed Talent Action Plan
• Increasing opportunities for young people and helping them to achieve their potential
• Cyber First: improving cyber skills in the UK
• £15 million to train next generation of quantum engineers
• Millions more saving thanks to Automatic Enrolment
• UK businesses could gain additional £18bn revenue from apprenticeships
• Sir Charlie Mayfield tells parliament: we need a cross-party plan for skills
• Simon Hughes speech to ICO’s 2015 Data Protection Practitioner Conference
• Government announces £4.36 million for support worker skills in the NHS
• Qualifications' place in a high performing vocational system
• £17.5 million for skills in Leeds City Region
• Government launches 750 apprenticeships for talented young people
• Webinars, e-learning, emails and videos on employing people
• £1 million available to help UK manufacturing firms develop skills to maximise value of innovation
• Avoid regional accent discrimination when recruiting
• £250,000 funding announced for more than 1,500 new training opportunities
• More young people continuing in education, employment or training
• UKCES supports call for more employers to work with schools
• Government and industry creating pipeline of growth for UK tunnelling and underground construction
• Ofsted to inspect early years initial teacher training
• £3.6 million for technology experts to train computing teachers
• Government and automotive industry start the motor on £30 million skills investment
• UKCES welcomes Cities Outlook 2015
• Pension Wise unveiled
• WordPress Templates vs Bespoke WordPress Design and Build
• It's Time to Ditch the Hard Sell
• Carillion creates 5,000 new construction apprentices
• Cable: new generation of National Colleges will lead revolution in hi-tech skills
• Maths and science must be the top priority in our schools, says Prime Minister
• Bridging the divide between academic and vocational education
• £52 million boost for skills and training in UK science sectors
• Creating A Data Led Culture In Your Business
• Spending Round 2013: next stage in government’s plan to move from rescue to recovery
• eSourcing Suite training - more new dates added
• City Council gains £222,600 in three hours
• Transformation Through Technology – mind the gap
• Details of government’s major projects revealed
• Scotland can more than afford to be independent
• New analysis of complaints by Ombudsman shows government departments need to raise their game
• Prime Minister: Apprenticeships are central to rebuilding the economy
• Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust makes improvements to services
• More training to identify and support victims of human trafficking
• The Housing Services team at Barking & Dagenham Council are part-way through the Design Councils Public Services by Design me
• The Prime Minister is 'tilting at windmills' on working time, says TUC
• Reducing unfair dismissal compensation will punish victims, warns TUC
• Jon Rouse to take up key Department of Health appointment
• HR and social media in the NHS