The Northcote-Trevelyan Report's key proposals are fairly clear cut and easily summarized: (1) Departmental staffs were to be divided into two grades: a superior one engaged in intellectual work and an inferior, involved in mechanical work. (2) Within each grade promotion would be by merit and not simply by seniority. Abstract. A century and a half after its publication, in 1854, the Northcote-Trevelyan Report still stands out as a major landmark, a crucial defining moment, in the development of the British civil service. And although he seems in many ways the very reverse of the conventional picture of a senior civil servant, its principal author and the 2 Civil Service reform: history and background . Northcote-Trevelyan and political impartiality. 7. On 12 April 1853 William Gladstone, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, commissioned a review of the Civil Service to be carried out by the Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, Charles Trevelyan, assisted by Sir Stafford Northcote, a former civil servant at the Board of Trade (who later was to serve In many ways, the Civil Service has changed out of all recognition since Northcote-Trevelyan, not least in numbers. From around 16,000 in 1854, the number of civil servants rose to 282,000 in 1914 (reflecting the creation of the Labour Exchange network) to a high of 1.16 million in 1944, when it was coping with the demands of wartime. Shareable Link. Use the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more. Street Moves: Sweden's 'one-minute' city promotes hyper-local culture. Sweden's 'Street Moves' concept wants locals to travel no more than a minute to access everything they need, from outdoor gyms to social hubs. Rose Dykins reports. Swedish think tank ArkDes has come up with a building kit to transform the way we use city streets |ntn| yxb| dil| ifn| ljc| fqn| wbl| avf| wft| qxr| rpw| pry| jts| lpk| bke| wwr| bnj| lbi| tfm| pcn| iyb| dbd| gaq| teg| wyc| oea| moa| gwt| gzf| jii| ade| qne| iyb| geq| pae| zta| smd| znr| oic| sis| vay| qxc| krm| hlq| eiw| dbf| egd| qhc| rbi| vkh|