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How the Civil Service is changing to deliver better services for all

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The five Civil Service reform missions

A Modern Civil Service is our vision of a skilled, innovative and ambitious Civil Service equipped for the future. Over the last two years we’ve made good progress on this, but there’s still more to do. So we’ve set out our next steps with a refreshed reform approach, using lessons from what we’ve learnt so far to help us achieve greater change.

One Big Thing: data upskilling for all civil servants

Civil servants at a training event

One Big Thing is a new annual initiative for civil servants to take shared action each year around a reform priority. The focus for 2023 is data upskilling, with all civil servants undertaking a day’s worth of data training this Autumn. 

Delivering government innovation with Evidence House

Evidence House logo

Led by the 10 Downing Street Data Science team, Evidence House is a new initiative that aims to radically upskill civil servants in data science, development and AI whilst delivering fresh insights and innovative solutions to government problems.