Opening up: how to strengthen the civil service through external recruitment
The civil service’s ability to deliver ministers’ priorities is being hurt by its failure to attract and properly use the skills of external recruits.

The civil service’s ability to deliver ministers’ priorities is being hurt by its failure to attract and properly use the skills of external recruits.
Join us to hear about the Institute’s ideas about rewiring the state, including valedictory reflections from Lord Sainsbury on government reform.
Michael Jary, the government’s former lead Non-Executive Director, sets out his views on Whitehall reform.
There are five broad groupings of grades in the civil service. But what are they, and how have number of civil servants at each grade changed?
Piecemeal interventions do not add up to coherent view of how the modern state should work.