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More details announced for learning and development programme at Civil Service Live
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More details of Civil Service Live’s free learning and development programme have been announced.
The event taking place at the QEII Conference Centre in Westminster on 1st – 3rd April is free for all UK civil servants to attend and is aimed at encouraging innovation across the service.
Of the many activities taking place at Civil Service Live, the free learning and development programme provided by the National School of Government will be of particular interest to delegates from the senior civil service and those aspiring to it.
The sessions will cover 10 streams of learning and will feature prestigious, innovative and inspiring speakers from across the public and private sector, including:
- The award winning team behind the Northern Ireland Peace process discussing their success and sharing best practice
- Alexis Cleveland and Sir David Varney discussing how to shape the future of the civil service
- DIUS permanent secretary Ian Watmore giving examples of innovation and talking about how important innovation is to the UK
- Lesley Strathie, chief executive of Jobcentre Plus, giving her views on operational delivery
- Dame Carol Black, National Director for Health and Work, speaking on the Health of the Working Age population
- BERR permanent secretary Sir Brian Bender talking about making policy which delivers
Details of key note speakers announced.
- Sir Gus O'Donnell, Cabinet Secretary and Head of Home Civil Service - challenges and vision for the Civil Service of the future
- John Denham, Secretary of State , Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
- Matt Dawson, member of the England 2003 World Cup winning rugby team, sharing experiences of leadership and performance management on and off the field
- Penny Newman, Chief Executive of Fair Trade
- Ian Pearson, Minister of State for Science and Innovation, DIUS - Innovation and risk in the public sector - striking the balance
- UK Trade & Industry - Selling the UK as never before
- ACT ON CO2 - 'Mucky Footprints' campaign - public sector advertising: views from Defra and the advertising agency responsible for the campaign
- The award winning civil service team which supported the Northern Ireland Peace Process
- Ian Watmore, permanent secretary, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills - the importance of innovation in the UK
- Lesley Strathie, chief executive of Jobcentre Plus, leadership in an operational delivery environment
- Dame Carol Black, National Director for Health and Work, speaking on the Health of the Working Age population
- Sir Brian Bender, permanent secretary, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Civil Service Policy Delivery Champion - turning policy into delivery
- Civil Servants Abroad - Sir Peter Ricketts, permanent under secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Sir Bill Jeffrey, permanent secretary, Ministry of Defence and Minouche Shafik, permanent secretary, Department for International Development
- Service Transformation: Sir David Varney, Prime Minister's Adviser on Public Service Transformation and Alexis Cleveland, Director General of Transformational Government, Cabinet Office talk about their vision for the future of public services.
The full current learning & development programme: http://www.civilservicenetwork.com/fileadmin/images/CS_Live_Resources/NSG_Learning_Sessions_07_02_08.pdf [External PDF, 16KB] 
