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  Civil service reform plan will stretch Whitehall to the limit

  Guardian Professional, 20 Jun 2012: Proposals raise several important concerns over issues such as impartiality, pay and the impact of further job cuts, says Jonathan Baume

• Test policies in 'randomised controlled trials', nudge unit urges

  20 Jun 2012: Paper calls on ministers to adopt a 'test, learn, adapt' method to policy-making to gauge effectiveness and halt inadvertently harmful policies
  

• Government spends £70m on poor Whitehall information, says NAO

  Guardian Professional, 20 Jun 2012: National Audit Office slams processes that fail to support Whitehall decision-making

• Civil service reform: dogma, banality, good sense – and disappointment

  Guardian Professional, 20 Jun 2012: Francis Maude's reform plans lack a rigorous base and will result in a diminished government, says David Walker

• Civil service reforms launched on a flotilla of jargon

  19 Jun 2012: Simon Hoggart: The civil service has to be 'smaller, pacier, flatter' – like a pancake-throwing contest

• Whitehall shakeup could lead to fewer ministers

  19 Jun 2012: Reviews will ask what work government departments should be doing and how many staff are needed to do that

• Civil service reform plans unveiled: Politics live blog

  Live 19 Jun 2012:

  Join Andrew Sparrow for rolling coverage of all today's political developments as they happen, including Francis Maude unveiling civil service reform plans

• Civil service leaders defend Whitehall shakeup

  Guardian Professional, 19 Jun 2012: Sir Bob Kerslake and Francis Maude say plan is not attack on civil service, despite job cuts and tough new appraisal system

• Francis Maude to set out plans for civil service shake-up

  17 Jun 2012:

  Streamlining of grades will be among reforms proposed after lengthy and at times heated debates across Whitehall

• Leveson sought reassurance over press standards after Gove remarks

  17 Jun 2012: Judge voiced concerns about comments that inquiry was having a 'chilling effect' on freedom of speech

• Ursula Brennan: the civil servant who is a glutton for punishment

  13 Jun 2012:

  One of Whitehall's most senior mandarins it leaving one troubled department - and heading straight into another

• Ministers' spads could create 'parallel civil service'

  Guardian Professional, 12 Jun 2012: MPs from inquiry committee told more transparency needed in the way special advisers are appointed and numbers employed

• Government's transparency drive stalls amid reports of ministry opposition

  11 Jun 2012:

  Publication of 'traffic-light' reports on major IT projects appears to have been dropped from civil service reform action plan

• Government plans to reform Whitehall risk exodus of civil service talent

  Guardian Professional, 11 Jun 2012:

  Influential thinktank warns that reform needs bold vision and support for civil service

• Conservative ministers must end civil service blame game – thinktank

  10 Jun 2012:

  Whitehall thinktank the Institute for Government says Tory policy must change to avoid exodus of senior civil servants

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