Tag: Civil Service

  • We’re all a little weird down here

    Yesterday Dominic Cummings, the PM’s senior aid, wrote in his blog about the need for number 10 to hire assorted super talented weirdos, unusual software developers, fantastic communicators and great project mangers (amongst other things). This clarion call for change in the public sector followed up from his previous statements about the need for change…

  • Finding your tribe. My path to the Civil Service:

    That’s been some great stories shared on twitter today, and it really got me thinking about why I joined the Civil Service, and why I’ve stayed in the public sector. Homeless till I was almost 4, I grew up on a council estate, daughter of a single mum, and like many others seemed to do,…