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5 August 2025
New Recruitment Principles Training Workshops Following positive engagement with the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles training across 2024/25, we are pleased to announce a series of new training workshops aimed at further supporting departments to run fair, open and merit-based recruitment. Many of these draw on common trends identified through the Commission’s 2024/25 audit. These...
21 July 2025
The Rt. Hon. Baroness Gisela Stuart of Edgbaston, First Civil Service Commissioner, has written to the Rt. Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and His Majesty’s Paymaster General, responding to his invitation to the Civil Service Commission to take on a new role providing independent advice on, and scrutiny of, the application...
25 June 2025
The First Civil Service Commissioner, Baroness Gisela Stuart, has written to the Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Sir Chris Wormald KCB, outlining how the Commission aims to help the Civil Service recruit and promote the best skills and capabilities to deliver for UK citizens. The letter reaffirms the Commission’s guiding principle as...
11 June 2025
Chris PilgrimAs the independent regulator, our job is to provide assurance that appointments into the Civil Service are made fairly, openly, and on merit – to help the Civil Service recruit the people and talent it needs. As well as personally chairing senior level recruitment, the Commission audits a sample of recruitment campaigns across departments...
28 April 2025
The Commission’s role is to check that Civil Service recruitment is done on merit, through fair and open competition – as required by law. Why our audits matter The most visible part of the Commission’s work is probably its team of independent Commissioners who personally chair Civil Service recruitment competitions at senior levels, but we...
9 April 2025
We were delighted that over 400 people attended our Meet the Commissioners online event in March where three Civil Service Commissioners talked about how they oversee Senior Civil Service (SCS) recruitment to ensure it is carried out fairly, openly and on the basis of merit. “We facilitate the process, but also oversee the fairness of...
14 March 2025
The First Civil Service Commissioner, Baroness Gisela Stuart, hosted the joint winners of the Commissioners’ Mark of Excellence at the House of Commons on 6th March. The Home Office won for their strategic approach to recruiting more women into frontline roles and outstanding work to support external candidates at different stages of the recruitment process....
18 February 2025
A new Framework Agreement with the Cabinet Office for monitoring and understanding the strategy, performance and delivery of the three Independent Offices supported by the Commission secretariat – the Civil Service Commission, the Commissioner for Public Appointments and the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments – has been published today. Read: Framework Agreement (2025) It sets...
14 February 2025
Are you thinking about applying for a Senior Civil Service role? Do you know what to expect when an independent Civil Service Commissioner chairs the recruitment process? The Commission provides assurance that civil servants are appointed on the basis of merit, after a fair and open competition, and helps safeguard an impartial civil service. For...
10 February 2025
Are you new to working in Civil Service HR or would you like refresher training on the Recruitment Principles? Or a Civil Service manager who needs to understand what to do to recruit in compliance with the Principles? The Commission offers regular online training on the Recruitment Principles which set the framework for all recruitment...