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Managing difficult conversations in private office
Because private office teams’ sit between ministers and civil servants, they often need to deliver difficult messages across the department.
How special advisers can work with departmental communications teams
Special advisers need to build close, trusting relationships with departmental communications teams.
Working with private office as a special adviser
Your dedicated private office plays a key role in enabling you to do your job.
From mayor to prime minister
Does Andy Burnham’s experience as a regional mayor prepare him for No.10?
When trust is lost: Making sense of the damaged relationship between ministers and civil servants
Ministers have lost trust in the civil service: that is damaging.
Brexit at 10
To mark the 10th anniversary of the EU referendum, the IfG has reflected on how leaving the EU has changed UK government.
Insights from early years settings
What government can learn from effective frontline practice for boys from low-income families.
Early years policy making: How can government ensure that boys from low-income families are not left behind during delivery?
The government’s early years target is doing little to incentivise the system to focus on boys from low-income families.
Ministers reflect on the civil service
What can ministers learn from their predecessors' work with the civil service?
Crisis response checklist: How well is the government managing the Iran crisis?
There is more that ministers should be doing to manage the response well.