Recommendation 14

The Cabinet Office told us that the challenge of EU exit and EU transition, alongside the concurrent risk of the covid-19 pandemic, has sharpened its thinking about skills and has improved the effectiveness of strategic workforce planning across the civil service. The current situation has forced the Cabinet Office to introduce new ways of working, such as cross-civil service campaigns and hubs to move people between departments, and to explore more innovative ways of managing staffing needs.26 Alongside this the Cabinet Office said it had been building capacity and skills within the HR function to carry out better strategic workforce planning. It has drawn on examples from other organisations that already do this well, such as the military and the Metropolitan Police.27 Creating plans to help maximise impact