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Officials empowered to innovate, iterative approaches to policy design and delivery, greater experimentation - today’s speech was an exciting realisation of mission-driven practice.
December 9, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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He closes by summarising the government’s approach.

We need more “doers” not checkers, “a system with fewer and better rules,” and we need to attract the best people to join government.
December 9, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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He now turns to civil service recruitment: “It’s time to overhaul the way recruitment processes work,” he says, opening up the civil service’s closed-culture and making the process friendlier to non-Whitehall people.

“Scrub the jargon and focus on what’s needed for the job,” he says.
December 9, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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McFadden’s opens by saying “I haven’t got this all figured out form beginning to end,” signalling a break from the usual Westminster/Whitehall-knows-best attitude.
December 9, 2024 at 10:14 AM