The purpose of this paper is to encourage public servants and agencies to discuss and think carefully about their activities on social media, and to help them recognise some of the issues and risks.

What are the most appropriate institutional arrangements for effective governance? This report examines a case for transforming the civil service, and offers some suggestions about what a new ethos could look like.

Private offices provide essential assistance to ministers. But some struggle to recruit and retain experienced staff, and fail to deliver the support ministers need to achieve their aims in government. This report sets out how the civil service can improve private offices to ensure that every minister is supported capably.

Operation Daintree was an investigation by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) highlighting how improper influence compromised the procurement process for a $1.2 million contract awarded to a union-established training group, and compromised the management of the contract.

This guide is a basic reference on systems thinking and practice tailored to the context and needs of the United Kingdom Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The guide offers a common language and shared framing of systems thinking for FCDO and its partners.