Thinking of applying for our 2024–25 research internship programme but wondering what the IfG is like as a place to work?

📺 Watch as our current interns share their experience.

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Cat Little has taken over as civil service chief operating officer during a time of change for the civil service.

Jack Worlidge looks at the challenges she will face
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An easy to overlook detail in The Times and The Sunday Times piece on that MRP poll - someone in government seemingly briefing against the King.

The Palace shooting down claims like this is not a normal place to be. This is *mad*

“We have an underlying, much more systemic problem here, which is the difficulty in recruiting and retaining experienced staff.”

UK prisons have dealt with underinvestment “for decades”, says Justice Select Committee Chair Sir Bob Neill KC (Hon) MP.

Lord Ed Vaizey | #TimesRadio

[NEW] Declining fast stream applications are a warning sign for the civil service

A collapse in the number of applications to the fast stream should be taken seriously, say Alex Thomas Jordan Urban Jack Worlidge

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Early winner of best anonymous quote in weekend papers, in The Times and The Sunday Times

🚨 Double insistence alert

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Looking forward to this - starting shortly 👇

Climate Change Committee pointed out yesterday that as climate impacts start to hit the UK is not prepared to adapt.

New Institute for Government report out today looks at how govt could move adaptation up the agenda

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Great piece by one of our centre commissioners Baroness Sally Morgan explaining why we need a new Department for the Prime Minister and Cabinet to drive the government’s priorities and give the prime minister and cabinet the support they need 👇 newstatesman.com/politics/the-s…

The cap on civil service numbers has failed - there are now over half a million civil servants, for the first time since Blair was in No10.

If anything, growth in the civil service has *increased* while govt's insisted it's capped it.

Great analysis from Sameer Aiyar-Majeed 👇

Photo du Jour: Former Prime Minsters John Major & Gordon Brown at the launch of the final report of the Institute for Government's (IfG) year-long Commission on the Centre of Government. By Stefan Rousseau/PA

Thank you Institute for Government for your ground breaking report today. Delighted to have given my insights.

It's crucial for any democratically-elected government to be able to implement its agenda effectively and appropriateIy.

Full report here:

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A selection of amazing endorsements for the Institute for Government Centre Commission #IfGCentre

Thank you so much to everyone we spoke to or who otherwise supported the work

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