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A Civil Service for the 21st Century?

30 November 2009

On 27 November Francis Maude, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, set out more details as to how the Conservatives would run the Civil Service.

Among the proposals are:

Enable Civil Service managers to remove employees who are not performing by establishing more rigorous appraisal and appeals systems

Give more power to civil servants to push for efficiency in their departments through strengthening the role and stature of the finance function and requiring civil servants to seek operational efficiency improvements

Reward civil servants for increasing efficiency Bring (sic) the Civil Service Compensation Scheme into line with the private sector

As we understand it, when he talks of bringing our compensation scheme in line with the private sector (though he doesn’t specify what part of the private sector) he means reducing redundancy payments from one month’s pay for every year served, to one weeks pay for every year served. This proposal would bring us close to statutory legal minimum redundancy payments.

Now Mr Maude claims that his proposals will "make the Civil Service a world class institution, a better place to work and ready to deliver the change that this country needs". Unfortunately they are the same old bash-the-civil-servant stuff that all the main parties indulge in. They are not the plans to make the civil service a better place to work in.

Read more about Mr Maude’s proposals on the Conservatives website.  

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