Civil Servants: Qualifications

(asked on 9th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 35 of his Department's report, The What Works Network: Five years on, what formal accreditation civil servants will achieve and which roles and grades of civil servant will participate.


Answered by
Oliver Dowden Portrait
Oliver Dowden
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
This question was answered on 26th March 2018

The Policy Profession has developed a set of established professional standards, against which we have developed a range of learning activities. One area of focus, raised in the What Works report, has been on developing and testing an approach that uses experienced policy (and analytical) colleagues to assess junior colleagues’ practical experience against the standards. These standards were agreed in December 2017, having been reviewed and improved after an initial small scale pilot assessments on 19 people across 6 departments to test them out. Broader pilots are due to start from May 2018.

In 2015 we launched a 2 year Executive Masters in Public Policy with London School of Economics (pitched as Senior Civil Servants at the first level, SCS1) which the first cohort of 28 passed in 2017.

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