Comments on: Breaking the granite ceiling http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/3946/breaking-the-granite-ceiling/?source=rss Institute for Government Blog Tue, 08 May 2012 17:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jill Rutter http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/3946/breaking-the-granite-ceiling/comment-page-1/#comment-961 Jill Rutter Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:52:10 +0000 http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/?p=3946#comment-961 I agree -- there are a number of dimensions on which the Treasury is horribly insular: Oxbridge; time spent outside the Treasury (at least Sharon brings experience of DfID and MOJ as well as No.10 and the World Bank) - but there is noone there who made their career in another department. That sort of traffic is very much one way. But this is an improvement. and the Treasury has been quite pioneering on job sharing for example at lower levels. I agree — there are a number of dimensions on which the Treasury is horribly insular: Oxbridge; time spent outside the Treasury (at least Sharon brings experience of DfID and MOJ as well as No.10 and the World Bank) – but there is noone there who made their career in another department. That sort of traffic is very much one way.

But this is an improvement. and the Treasury has been quite pioneering on job sharing for example at lower levels.

]]> By: David Laughrin http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/3946/breaking-the-granite-ceiling/comment-page-1/#comment-960 David Laughrin Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:58:30 +0000 http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/?p=3946#comment-960 Good to see any glass or granite ceilings go, and Whitehall has I am sure benefited from the long term goals to improve gender balance in both public appointments and senior civil service appointments - in both of which I was involved in the 1990s. But from the point of view of the Treasury I would equally want to see more movement out of the Treasury and then back again, so more Treasury folk understand what it is like to run delivery programmes in a department. The habit of sending Treasury mandarins out late in their careers to run other departments with no prior relevant experience was never a great idea - as one of them once confided to me. So let's break the traditions of the past in more than one dimension? Good to see any glass or granite ceilings go, and Whitehall has I am sure benefited from the long term goals to improve gender balance in both public appointments and senior civil service appointments – in both of which I was involved in the 1990s.

But from the point of view of the Treasury I would equally want to see more movement out of the Treasury and then back again, so more Treasury folk understand what it is like to run delivery programmes in a department. The habit of sending Treasury mandarins out late in their careers to run other departments with no prior relevant experience was never a great idea – as one of them once confided to me.

So let’s break the traditions of the past in more than one dimension?

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