Form: Voter registration forms (paper versions)
Updated: Added Scottish paper formsYou can also register to vote online.Or contact your local Electoral Registration Office and ask them to post a form to you.Send the completed form to your local...
View ArticleGuidance: Guide to making legislation
Updated: Guidance document updated.This guidance sets out what bill teams need to do at each stage of preparing primary legislation and taking it through Parliament, from bidding for a slot in the...
View ArticleNews story: Applications open for Youth Social Action Fund
Updated: Added information on local funding in the East of England.Organisations working with young people in lower socioeconomic areas in England can apply for funding through the new Youth Social...
View ArticlePress release: All public sector employees who work directly with the public...
new legislation to make fluent English a requirement for all public sector staff working in customer-facing rolespublic sector organisations will be required to ensure staff can speak at least school...
View ArticleNews story: Mike Bracken set to move on from GDS
Having led the transformation of the UK government’s digital services for the last 4 years, Mike Bracken has decided to move on from his role as Executive Director of the Government Digital Service...
View ArticleGuidance: Common areas of spend: data definitions
Updated: Updated procurement documentThe Common Areas of Spend (CAS) work aims to establish agreed standard guidance and definitions. These enable departments to communicate on operational performance...
View ArticleGuidance: Procurement Policy Note 13/15: increasing the transparency of...
This procurement policy note provides guidance on the how to implement the transparency principles published in March 2015. It aims to increase the type and accessibility of contract and procurement...
View ArticlePress release: Kids Company: statement
A government spokesperson said:The government has supported Kids Company over the last 7 years to help it deliver services for vulnerable young people and so we are disappointed it has been unable to...
View ArticlePress release: New steps to tackle taxpayer-funded support to trade unions
outdated practice of state-run union subscription payments to be ended, removing the taxpayer-funded administrative burden on employersunion subscriptions can be paid by direct debit, modernising the...
View ArticleNews story: Applications now open for the Fulbright Cyber Security Awards
During the Prime Minister’s US visit in January 2015, the 2 governments announced the Fulbright Cyber Security Awards as one of the measures to increase US-UK cyber security cooperation. The award will...
View ArticleGuidance: Cross-Government Trial Advice Panel: role and membership
The What Works team in Cabinet Office have brought together trialling experts from across government with 25 external academics, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council. They will advise...
View ArticleGuidance: What Works Network membership requirements
The What Works Network aims to support better public services. The network, and the centres it includes, seek to make available the best evidence of ‘what works’ to the people who make decisions on...
View ArticleDetailed guide: What Works Network
Updated: Updated information about the centres and added links to new guidance publications.IntroductionThis initiative aims to improve the way government and other organisations create, share and use...
View ArticleGuidance: Terrorist attacks in Tunisia: support for people affected
Updated: Added contact phone number for unitMinisterial committeeFollowing the terrorist attack in Sousse on 26 June 2015, and the attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis on 18 March 2015, the Prime...
View ArticleTransparency data: Cabinet Office prompt payment data
From 1 April 2015 all central government departments, including their executive agencies and non departmental public bodies, are required to report on their prompt payment performance. They must...
View ArticleGuidance: Open standards for government
Updated: Added open standards for country codes and language tagsThe UK government is selecting a set of open standards for use in government technology. The aim is to apply these consistently across...
View ArticlePress release: Thousands of Teach First teachers could join NCS movement
New ambition for all Teach First teachers to volunteer with National Citizen Service from 2017As NCS reaches 200,000 participant this year, this initiative will help even more to benefit from PM’s...
View ArticleResearch and analysis: Future of rural communities: discussion paper
In 2014 the Cabinet Secretary’s Advisory Group asked the Horizon Scanning Programme Team and Defra to look into external experts’ views on the future of rural communities. Sir Mark Walport invited a...
View ArticleTransparency data: Cabinet Office workforce management data 2015 to 2016
Updated: June 2015 data addedCabinet Office publishes details about headcount and payroll costs for permanent staff and contractors on a monthly basis.It also includes non-consolidated performance...
View ArticleResearch and analysis: Children and young people’s risk behaviours:...
The Horizon Scanning Programme Team led a research project on ‘risk behaviours’ in children and young people in the first year of the programme.Risk behaviours potentially expose people to harm, or...
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