Associate Director at Institute for Government, and former civil servant (cabinet office, dfid).
Hannah Keenan
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Danny Kruger put out some ideas about how to fix the centre of gov and they are both good and bad. But Kruger's plans only make sense when you see that they're based on a fiction of an all-powerful cabinet office and civil service.
@alexgathomas.bsky.social and I got our thoughts down here:
This is such a sad / demotivating view of performance appraisals and not at all what they have to be.
"I have never learnt anything about myself as a result" is a horrible indictment of the lack of skill of your managers, the culture of the org, your own approach or some combo of the above.
Reform UK are yet to understand the complex realities of power inside government.
Have written about why this is so good. Yes, there's miles more that's needed, but before you dunk on this it's worth getting to grips with the bind civil servants are in at the moment, where your choices are: move dept, move job, or see your pay stagnate. This is a route out, and that is good.
Defence secretary John Healey has just resigned over the govt's Defence Investment Plan, writing that it "falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time". We're getting our @instituteforgovernment.org.uk resignation chart fired back up..
Hannah Keenan
New people survey demographic data for 2025 has been published - the numbers on socio-economic background of civil servants does not seem to have changed significantly from 2024 data. A very slight (1pp) increase in representation at SCS of civil servants from a lower SEB, but broadly static (1/2)
Hannah Keenan
A new piece from @hannahkeenan.bsky.social and me on Danny Kruger’s plans for the centre of government under Reform UK
Some useful proposals, some mistakes, but based on a fundamental misdiagnosis
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/dann...
Performance-related pay progression for senior officials is a good, if limited, move.
Earlier this year, I set out plans to modernise the civil service.
Now, for the first time ever (!), pay rises for senior civil servants will be linked to performance - including the delivery of our political priorities.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Megan Bryer
Reform UK are yet to understand the complex realities of power inside government.
Earlier this year, I set out plans to modernise the civil service.
Now, for the first time ever (!), pay rises for senior civil servants will be linked to performance - including the delivery of our political priorities.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Further to my posts on performance management, someone has rather delightfully replied with an old Lucy Kellaway column about why appraisals should just be scrapped outright. www.ft.com/content/a72a...
Heloise Dunlop
The Government has today, 21 May, published its response to the recommendations of the independent Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) on pay for the Senior Civil Service (SCS) for 2026-27.
The Government has today, 21 May, published its response to the recommendations of the independent Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) on pay for the Senior Civil Service (SCS) for 2026-27.
