Finding and keeping the right people
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 be developing 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? What difference would it make to the quality of policy advice?\n\nPanellists:\n\nCatherine Baxendale, author of How to best attract, induct and retain talent recruited into the Senior Civil Service\nEdwina Dunn, CEO of Starcount and Commissioner at the Geospatial Commission\nDr Louisa Nolan, Head of Data Science Projects at the Office for National Statistics\nMatthew Trimming, Senior Adviser at PUBLIC\nMax Tse, Executive Director at the National Audit Office\nChaired by Alex Thomas, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.