This is an audio recording of an IfG Live Event. How can the Civil Service recruit, retain and reward the right people? What needs to change on pay and opportunities for promotion to reduce staff turnover? What skills and expertise do civil servants need? What type of quantitative skills should the Civil Service develop and where do they need to be deployed? What are the barriers to recruiting and retaining engineers, mathematicians and economists? How do different professions fit in? And what difference would an improvement in recruitment and retention make to the quality of policy advice?

Alex Thomas, Programme Director at the Institute for Government, joins a panel including:

Catherine Baxendale, author of How To Best Attract, Induct And Retain Talent Recruited Into The Senior Civil Service
Edwina Dunn, CEO of Starcount and Commissioner at the Geospatial Commission
Dr Louisa Nolan, Head of Data Science Projects at the Office for National Statistics
Matthew Trimming, Senior Adviser at PUBLIC
Max Tse, Executive Director at the National Audit Office

We would like to thank Oracle for kindly sponsoring this event.

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Civil Service reform: Finding and keeping the right people