Capability Reviews: Progress and Next Steps - The Civil Service
Capability Reviews: Progress and Next Steps - The Civil Service
Capability Reviews: Progress and Next Steps - The Civil Service
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Foreword<strong>The</strong> challenge to the <strong>Capability</strong> <strong>Reviews</strong> is: ‘Are they bringing about sustainablechange <strong>and</strong> strengthening <strong>Civil</strong> <strong>Service</strong> capability? In short, are they making adifference?’ I believe that this document demonstrates that they are doing justthat. <strong>The</strong>re is a picture of improvement, often against very challenging external<strong>and</strong> internal pressures, in all of the Tranche 1 departments. Permanent secretariescare about their <strong>Capability</strong> <strong>Reviews</strong>, <strong>and</strong> they care about improving theirdepartments. We are seeing this leading to positive outcomes.I have personally been challenged by the <strong>Capability</strong> Review of my owndepartment, the Cabinet Office, <strong>and</strong> also by the recent independent evaluation ofthe <strong>Capability</strong> <strong>Reviews</strong> programme by the Sunningdale Institute. Both of thesepoint to some real successes, but both challenge us to see these as only the verystart of a new transformational agenda.Government needs both strong <strong>and</strong> capable delivery departments <strong>and</strong> also aneffective <strong>and</strong> expert centre, working well together. This report sets out theprogress made to date both in individual departments <strong>and</strong> also by the <strong>Civil</strong><strong>Service</strong> acting corporately. It also looks to the future <strong>and</strong> the next steps for creatingsustainable change.At the annual <strong>Civil</strong> <strong>Service</strong> Awards ceremony last month, I was privileged to hearabout some exceptional achievements by civil servants. I continue to be proud tolead the <strong>Civil</strong> <strong>Service</strong>, to recognise its successes <strong>and</strong> to challenge it to succeedfurther. We face significant challenges ahead, doing much more with less, in anincreasingly complex <strong>and</strong> dem<strong>and</strong>ing environment. I believe this programme of<strong>Capability</strong> <strong>Reviews</strong> is helping us to face up to these challenges <strong>and</strong> move forwardwith increased confidence.I would like to thank again all those who have given their time <strong>and</strong> energy to makingthis programme a success. Nearly 100 review team members, drawn from a widerange of backgrounds, from the private sector to the <strong>Civil</strong> <strong>Service</strong>, including localauthority chief executives, <strong>and</strong> senior executives from the police <strong>and</strong> health service,have worked on reviews <strong>and</strong> returned to departments to provide assurance onprogress, supported by the <strong>Capability</strong> <strong>Reviews</strong> Team in the Cabinet Office.My permanent secretary colleagues <strong>and</strong> their boards have worked together withtheir departments to act on the findings of the reviews, <strong>and</strong> the professors of theSunningdale Institute have produced a stimulating <strong>and</strong> challenging evaluation.CAPABILITY REVIEWS: PROGRESS AND NEXT STEPS1
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