Skilled, Innovative and Ambitious

Get Involved

Change is happening at every level and every civil servant has a role to play. Civil servants can take action to encourage and progress change in their role, team and department.

Find out more about how civil servants can get involved with change.

Change in the Civil Service

Examples of change happening in departments and agencies across government:

  • an improved offer for learning and development with the launch of the Government Skills Campus 
  • new systems in place to speed up the process for staff transfers between departments
  • improved digital services for the public and civil servants

Case studies

See how government departments are shaping the Civil Service of the future.

Meet the Modern Civil Service: Jo Shanmugalingam

Jo Shanmugalingam is the Second Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport, and she spoke to us about what it means to build an innovative Civil Service.

David Lawson, Medical Technology and Innovation Director at the Department of Health and Social Care

Meet the Modern Civil Service: David Lawson

David Lawson, Medical Technology and Innovation Director at the Department of Health and Social Care talks about what a Modern Civil Service means to him and innovating for health and social care.

Celebrating one year of innovation: Project Simplify’s digital makeover

Starting as a six-week sprint for quick improvement wins, the success of the Department for Business and Trade’s Simplify initiative brought a new challenge – how to manage a wealth of ideas from across the department.