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The British government has announced reforms to make it easier to force the officials of the below -average civil servants together with a stronger performance -related payment for high -ranking civil servants as part of plans to serve Whitehall.
Pat McFadden, the minister of cabinet office, said that Whitehall was “disagree with” and sworn that the ministers “would change fundamentally as the state provides for humans”.
The highest paid mandarins at the top of the public service will be exposed to stricter performance monitoring, with those who are viewed to administer six months in order to improve or be allowed to improve or be allowed.
McFadden also monitors the creation of “mutually agreed outputs” in departments, a process for incentives to leave civil servants to leave their work, the Labor hopes to make the officials easier.
The reforms are equipped with a new performance -related wage system to reward outstanding civil servants who are responsible for the provision of the government’s five missions.
McFadden drives the revision of the public service’s employment rules at a time Efficiency of the government’s Ministry Led by Elon Muschus.
The “radical” reforms of Labor were “about getting a bang for our money in relation to the results,” McFadden told the BBCs Sunday with Laura KuensbergAdd: “It is not an ideological approach to withdraw the state.”
He also signaled that there would be a significant reduction in headquarters in Whitehall, since the cabinet office said that 15,000 additional employees had joined the public service since the end of 2023, without the public services being improved at the same time.
McFadden has not set a specific goal for the number of job cuts, but the Financial Times first unveiled In December that the government made cuts of more than 10,000 jobs throughout the public service.
“I think the central public service would and can become smaller,” McFadden told BBC. “I want more officers to work outside of London, where the state think that the state can achieve a better price -performance ratio.”
McFadden also introduces a new goal for each of ten civil servants to work in data or digital roles by 2030 and to give the public sector in harmony with the benchmarks of the private sector.
According to the cabinet office, the shift is delivered by apprenticeships and retraining of existing civil servants.
McFadden’s comments occurred on Thursday of a speech by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer about the efficiency in the public sector. Starrer has requested a revision of the state to deliver its five missions, namely economic growth, the improvement of the NHS, the fight against crime, the elimination of “obstacles to opportunities” and turbo loading of the transition of green energy.
Unions who represent civil servants react angrily to the reform package. Dave Penman, General Secretary of the FDA union, who represents high -ranking civil servants, said that Labor has repeated the narrative of the former conservative governments that “public service is held back by a handful of bad actors in the senior public service”.
He said the government should deal with “non -competitive salary rates, in which high -ranking civil servants earn the salaries half of the equivalents of their private sector” instead of trying to “tinker with the edges of a performance wage system that has been around for over two decades”.
The ministers have to determine “realistic priorities” for the government instead of output sound bites about “more for less”, said Penman.
