As councils decide whether to cut libraries or social care, Whitehall’s Brexit juggernaut pulls in new staff to tackle the historic task

Despite cuts and fears over Brexit workloads, Whitehall is performing well, but services like social care, prisons, hospitals and the police all face challenges

The coalition’s discredited staff appraisal system is just one of the Whitehall programmes being junked as Brexit looms

Sir Jeremy Heywood should indeed remember his place: to steer a neutral civil service through tough Brexit negotiations

With Labour councils controlling huge amounts of public sector budgets, their leaders are ready to offer Jeremy Corbyn some hard-won political advice

Changing civil service culture is now in the hands of May’s new ministers, but achieving this as well as Brexit is a tall order

Boundary commissions could have been considering how to bring together health and social care, or housing and transport

Formidable women, commissioning better for young people and a handy guide to autumn policy: our new dispatch on public services