“For a minister to suggest that it is acceptable to assault inspectors is irresponsible and dangerous. It will only serve to undermine the credibility of the inspection process.” - Matt Newman, FDA National Officer for Ofsted schoolsweek.co.uk/keegan-id-have…

Can you imagine the outcry if a civil servant had said they wanted to punch a disrespectful minister (of which there’s been more than a few of late). The Prime Minister talks about lowering the temperature in politics, whilst ministers riff about punching civil servants.

Our National Officer for Ofsted Matt Newman responds to the Education Secretary saying that she “would probably have punched” Ofsted inspectors

Ministers must ensure civil servants aren’t conflicted between Civil Service Code obligations & ministerial instructions, yet this is where the Rwanda Bill puts civil servants. Dave Penman writes to the Home Secretary & Minister for the Cabinet Office stating this must be resolved

We're proud to be in Llandudno at Congress 2024 to celebrate 50 years of TUC Cymru #TUCCymru50

The FDA union first joined TUC Cymru back in 1977. Since then, it's gone from strength to strength and continues to stand up for union members across Wales.

It was great to welcome NIC ICTU Assistant General Secretary Gerry Murphy to #TUCCymru50 this morning and hear about how we can work together to deliver for working people.

Delighted to attend the Welsh Government fringe meeting at #TUCCymru50, discussing the benefits of social partnership with the new Minister for Social Partnership Sarah Murphy MS

Solidarity and greetings to #TUCCymru50 from Roz Foyer, General Secretary of STUC

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak addresses delegates on the final day of Congress #TUCCymru50

The 60% rule is an evidence bereft piece of one size fits all, ideologically driven dogma from the current government. Early lesson here on the need for care when weighing in on civil service issues which can superficially seem uncontroversial. civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…

I’m sure that as a former-Secretary of State, if Badenoch had actual evidence to back up any of these serious accusations against civi servants, then action would have been taken. Otherwise she herself would be culpable. So usual irresponsible culture war then. Rinse and repeat.

As I told Adam Fleming, the Prime Minister is a leader, if you want to reform public services - which civil servants also want to do - you need to bring them with you. That's what good leaders do.

As I told Nick Gutteridge The Telegraph, the idea that cuts of this scale can be delivered by cutting HR and comms teams is for the birds. This plan will require ministers to be honest with the public and their civil servants about the impact this will have on public services.

“The idea that cuts of this scale can be delivered by cutting HR and comms teams is for the birds,” says Dave Penman

If ministers think a 10% civil service staff or budget cut is going to be delivered by AI or digital, they need to explain how that’s going to happen - that’s not the reality. As I told Sky News, these tools may play a role but they’re not going to deliver savings like these.

Government has drawn an "artificial line" between productive and unproductive roles in the civil service to justify cuts, Dave Penman tells Ayesha Hazarika

Good to speak to Stephen Nolan & Darwin about the Chancellor’s planned civil service cuts of 10 and 15% over 3-4 years. If you're going to cut resources this quickly & this dramatically, that will impact public services – that's what ministers have to own up to.

"No one should underestimate the scale of the cuts that the Chancellor is announcing today" Discussing proposed cuts to the civil service, Dave Penman tells Stephen Nolan "you do that to any organisation on that sort of scale and you're going to see an impact".

Our President Margaret Haig opens this year’s FDA Annual Delegate Conference #FDAADC25