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Civil Service Code Of Conduct
The Civil Service Commission regulates recruitment to the United Kingdom Civil Service, providing assurance that appointments are on merit after fair and open competition, and hears appeals under the Civil Service Code. The commission is independent of government and the Civil Service. The Civil Service Commission was established by Gladstone through an order in council on 21 May 1855 following the publication of the Northcote–Trevelyan Report by Charles Trevelyan and Stafford Northcote that advocated the decoupling of appointments of senior civil servants from ministers to ensure the impartiality of the Civil Service. Following a report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, ''"Defining the Boundaries within the Executive: Ministers, special advisers and the permanent Civil Service"'' in 2003, the appointment of the First Civil Service Commissioner is made by Government after consultation with the leaders of the main opposition parties. They are then appointed by the Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Service (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, the Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or Secretariat (administrative office), secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government, which is led by a Cabinet of the United Kingdom, cabinet of Minister (government), ministers chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. As in other states that employ the Westminster system, Westminster political system, the Civil Service – often known by the metonym of Whitehall – forms an inseparable part of the Government of the United Kingdom, British government. The executive decisions of government ministers are implemented by the Civil Service. Civil servants are employees of the The Crown, Crown and not of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, British parliament. Civil servants also have some traditional and Statute, statutory responsibilities which to som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Helsby, Baron Helsby
Laurence Norman Helsby, Baron Helsby (27 April 1908 – 5 December 1978) was a British civil servant. Early life Laurence Helsby was born on 27 April 1908 and educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria, before studying at Keble College, Oxford. He lectured in economics at the University College of the South West of England (a predecessor institution of the University of Exeter) between 1930 and 1931 and at the University of Durham between 1931 and 1945. Career In 1946, he joined the Civil Service, initially as an Assistant Secretary in the Treasury, before becoming Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, between 1947 and 1950. After a period working in the Ministry of Food, he was appointed First Civil Service Commissioner in 1954, transferring in 1959 to become Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour. In 1963, he was made joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Head of the Home Civil Service. Following his retirement, he was created a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Watmore
Ian Charles Watmore (born 5 July 1958) is a British management consultant and former senior civil servant under three prime ministers, who served from October 2016 to September 2021 as the First Civil Service Commissioner. Early life and business career Born in Croydon, Surrey, he was educated at the Trinity School of John Whitgift and then graduated with a degree in mathematics and management studies from Trinity College, Cambridge. He trained as an management consultant with Andersen Consulting, and ultimately became Accenture's managing director for the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2004. This career involved IT and consulting in the private sector, and involved him joining the board of e-skills UK, the Sector Skills Council for IT, from 2000 until 2006, and serving as the president of the ''Management Consultants Association'' from 2003 to 2004. Government career Watmore joined the civil service of the United Kingdom as the first Government Chief Information Officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathryn Bishop
Kathryn Ann Bishop (born 2 August 1958) is a British businessperson, educator and author. She has worked with private, public and voluntary sector organisations undergoing change. She combines her practical experience, as a leader, director and non-executive director, with her teaching at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, where she is an associate fellow. and writing business books. Early life and education Kathryn Bishop attended secondary school in Worcestershire, and graduated from Wellesley College, Massachusetts in 1979 with a BA Honours, Summa Cum Laude. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the American Honor Society, in 1978. She returned to the UK to study at Jesus College Oxford, earning an MPhil in English Studies in 1981, specialising in the literature of the period 1660 to 1798. Career During her career, she has worked in the private sector, holding senior roles at Accenture, Allied Dunbar and Eagle Star, as well as in the public sector, at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Normington
Sir David John Normington, (born 18 October 1951) is a retired British civil servant. He served as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education and Skills from 2001 to 2005, and then of the Home Office until 2011. From 2011 until 2016 he served as both the First Civil Service Commissioner and the Commissioner for Public Appointments for the British government. Career Normington attended Bradford Grammar School. A graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Normington's career began in the Department of Employment. There he was responsible variously for the previous Government’s programme of trade union reform, for measures to reduce unemployment, and for youth training. He was Principal Private Secretary to Tom King, Secretary of State for Employment in 1983 and 1984. He was also responsible for co-ordinating the efforts of central Government to regenerate the seven most deprived London boroughs. In 1995, when the Department of Employment and Department of Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Paraskeva
Dame Janet Paraskeva (born 1946, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a British government official. She was appointed as the First Civil Service Commissioner on 1 January 2006. On 15 November 2007 Paraskeva was announced by Peter Hain, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, as first Chair of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission. Her appointment, which lasted four years, took effect on 19 November 2007. Paraskeva began her career as a science and mathematics teacher in 1967. After graduating from the Open University in 1983 with a degree in social sciences, Paraskeva joined HM Inspector of Schools where she served until 1988. She has served as chief executive at the Law Society's Council and as Director for England of the National Lottery Charities Board. She also established and managed the England operation, awarding more than £1.5bn to voluntary organisations. Paraskeva has also served as a magistrate and as a member of the Youth Justice Board. She is affi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar
Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar is a British politician and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chair of a variety of public and private sector organisations. She became the first chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission upon its creation in April 2006. Early life and education Born in Kenya, she came to Yorkshire with her father Naurhia Lal Prashar and family in the 1960s. She was educated at the then direct grant school Wakefield Girls' High School, becoming head girl in 1967. Prashar read Politics at Leeds University, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, after which she undertook postgraduate studies in Social Administration at the University of Glasgow. Career Private sector Baroness Prashar was a non-executive director of Channel Four Television Corporation from 1992 to 1999, of UNITE Group plc from 2001 to 2004, and became a non-executive director of ITV plc in February 2005. Public sector Baroness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bett
Sir Michael Bett, CBE (born 1935) is a retired English business executive, personnel manager and public servant. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Bett became director of industrial relations at the Engineering Employers' Federation in 1970; he was subsequently personnel director at General Electric (1972–77) and the BBC (1977–81), before moving to British Telecom (BT) where he held a series of management roles before becoming managing director BTUK in 1988 and then deputy chairman in 1991 (stepping down to be a non-executive director in 1994); he was also chairman of the telecommunications company Cellnet (1991–99),"Bett, Sir Michael" '''' (onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Bowtell
Dame Ann Elizabeth Bowtell (''née'' Kewell; born 25 April 1938) is a British retired civil servant. She was the UK's First Civil Service Commissioner The First Civil Service Commissioner heads the Civil Service Commission, a statutory body which ensures that appointments to the Civil Service in the United Kingdom are made openly and on merit, and hears appeals from civil servants under the Civ ... from 1993 to 1995. Early life and education Bowtell was born in 1938 to John Albert Kewell and Olive Rose Sims. Bowtell was educated at Kendrick Girls' School in Reading. She studied Economics at Girton College, University of Cambridge, where she was made an honorary fellow in 1997. In 1961, she married Michael John Bowtell. They have two sons and two daughters. References External links Civil Service Commissioners 1938 births Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge British civil servants Dames Commander of the Order of the Bath Fellows of Girton College, Camb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Holroyd (civil Servant)
John Hepworth Holroyd, (10 April 1935 – 29 November 2014) was an English public servant. Educated at Worcester College, Oxford, he entered the civil service in 1959. After chairing the Civil Service Selection Board (1978–80) and serving in Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and in the Cabinet Office, he was the First Civil Service Commissioner from 1989 to 1993. He was then Secretary for Appointments to the Prime Minister and Ecclesiastical Secretary to the Lord Chancellor from 1993 to 1999.Charles Gordon Clark"Obituary: John Hepworth Holroyd" '' The Church Times'', 12 December 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2021."Holroyd, John Hepworth" '''' (onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angus Fraser (civil Servant)
Angus McKay Fraser (10 March 1928 – 27 May 2001) was a senior British Civil Servant politician and cabinet minister from 1979 until 1992, and a lifelong scholar of Gypsies, and of the author George Borrow. Early life He was born at Dumfries, the son of a prison officer. He grew up in Falkirk, attending Falkirk High School where his interest in the life and writings of George Borrow was first kindled. After school he studied modern languages at the University of Glasgow. After graduating he did Military Service in the Royal Artillery. He continued his association with the military as a member of the Territorial Army, receiving the Territorial Efficiency Decoration in 1966, at which time he held the rank of Major. Career Fraser joined the Customs and Excise in 1952. His career tended to alternate between central Whitehall departments ( Civil Service Department, The Treasury) and his own department. He rose to become Deputy Chairman of the Customs and Excise in 1978, follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fergus Allen
Fergus Hamilton Allen CB FRSL (3 September 1921 – 22 July 2017) was a civil servant and author. Allen was educated at Newtown School, Waterford before going up to Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ... ( MA, MAI, ScD). References External links Debrett's People of Today {{DEFAULTSORT:Allen, Fergus 1921 births 2017 deaths [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
