Former U.S. Simon Case appointed cabinet secretary and head of the civil service. I mean, these things are really difficult to know. He says government has got better, during the pandemic, at using so-called ‘red teams’ of officials specifically formed to provide extra challenge to policy choices, and improving analysis to understand the impact of the measures it has taken. Another thing he says makes “a very big difference” is that he is surrounded by “some quite phenomenal colleagues”. loading. Reflecting on some of the more memorable episodes of his career to date, the former principal private secretary to prime ministers David Cameron and Theresa May says: “Safe to say there are moments in reshuffles, where accidentally the wrong person has been put on the line and you realise that you’re about to offer the wrong person the job.”. 1 Dec. 2016, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Private Secretary to the Duke of Cambridge, "Number 10 needs to sort out its internal chaos fast", "Prince William loses right-hand man to Downing Street", "PM's new Principal Private Secretary: Simon Case", "The Joint Intelligence Committee and the German Question, 1947–61", "PM's private secretary to lead Implementation Unit", "Downing Street names Simon Case as David Cameron's new principal private secretary", "CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD", "Senior appointments at UK Permanent Representation to the EU", "Brexit official tasked with solving Irish border issue quits", "Prince William's new Private Secretary swaps Brexit for Royal Household", https://www.kcl.ac.uk/archive/news/sspp/newsrecords/2018/clare-lombardelli-simon-case-new-visiting-professors, "Boris Johnson picks No 10 official to be head of UK civil service", "Simon Case appointed as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service", Cabinet Secretaries of the United Kingdom, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon_Case&oldid=994951758, People educated at Bristol Grammar School, Alumni of Queen Mary University of London, Principal Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister, Articles with short description added by PearBOT 5, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 December 2020, at 11:31. Simon Case, who was made permanent secretary at Downing Street … “Something that in the past government hasn't done enough of is learning lessons from around the world and genuinely being open to looking at what other countries are doing,” he says. I think each of us could look around us every day and find a bit of process that we'd like to do differently. Heywood, whom Case worked with as a PPS, wanted officials to engage more with policy development overseas. Senator and Secretary of State Kerry will act as a Cabinet-level "climate czar" in the Biden administration who will help guide the country's climate diplomacy. “Whilst I recognise there's a lot of media interest in some of what's going on in Downing Street, actually, the vast majority of what the PM and his team have been focused on is the same big issues that we've been working on for the last few months – ie Covid,” he says. Another lesson he hopes will be taken from this period is one that another cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, wanted to see realised. [citation needed], In 2007, Case married Elizabeth Kistruck, chief finance officer for Hotels.com at Expedia Inc, they have three daughters. “It's very easy to take for granted the smooth handover of power in our system, but actually, managing the transition from David Cameron to Theresa May and being part of how our democracy works – those are things that make me proud.”. This site requires JavaScript for certain functions and interactions to work. Remember the context, what we're dealing with: a totally novel virus. “There are moments in reshuffles where the wrong person has been put on the line and you realise you’re about to offer the wrong person the job”. [7], Case joined the Civil Service in 2006. for the best possible experience. “You have to look at the numbers. I think the weight on the shoulders of the prime minister and his ministerial team, and political leaders across the devolved administrations and frankly across the world, is unbelievable at the moment. But the context keeps changing, and it's all about: how does governing adapt to the internal and external context? I've been lucky enough to see various iterations of Downing Street through the years... [and] how I've seen Downing Street work under different guises. [11], In March 2017, Case was announced as the Director General for the UK–EU Partnership. “One of the things that the generation of the family that I worked for focused enormously on was mental health,” he says. And through that, government has had to adapt and change in the sorts of ways that I’ve talked about. The Prime Minister has appointed Simon Case as the Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service. “There is some really impressive stuff that I have seen the civil service come up with in response,” he adds, highlighting the “phenomenally complicated, multidisciplinary services being set up at short notice” to run projects like the furlough scheme, or to develop the shielding programme from scratch. Simon Case was Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge's Private Secretary, but he's now working for the government as Cabinet Secretary and head of Civil Service. 12 Jan Civil Service Reform. [16] Also in 2018, Case was appointed a Visiting Professor at King's College London, having previously been a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the university. Case is deeply aware that while few of the staff he is now responsible for can relate to the pressure of directly advising the PM, all are affected by coronavirus. A former private secretary to the Duke of Cambridge will become the new head of the UK civil service, Downing Street confirmed today. Case doesn’t address the now ex-special adviser’s more inflammatory criticisms directly, saying he “hasn’t read or studied all of the Cummings critique”. A career civil servant until he left to become Prince William’s private secretary in 2018, Case has dealt with his share of crises. “For me, the period of Covid has given us a lot of signposts... it’s been an accelerator or something transformational. [3] He worked first within the Ministry of Defence as a policy adviser. Asked later to reflect on the proudest moments of his career, he recalls the aftermath of David Cameron’s resignation following the 2016 EU referendum. And I think that tells us a lot about how we should govern. Simon Case CVO (born 27 December 1978) is a British civil servant who has served as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service since 9 September 2020, succeeding Sir Mark Sedwill. Does Case think any of the eccentric spad’s ideas are worth keeping? Simon Case will be named as cabinet secretary on Tuesday, the Financial Times reports. The FT reports that Mr Johnson told allies that he wanted Mr Case to be ‘my Jeremy’, a reference to the revered former cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood, who served David Cameron and Theresa May before his death from cancer in 2018. STILL CLIMBING. He is speaking to CSW just days after Boris Johnson’s chief political aide Dominic Cummings and head of communications Lee Cain announced they would be leaving Downing Street – shortly after it was reported that Cain was to be made Johnson’s chief of staff. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: MICHAEL REGAN. “I see it as my job, just as those who've come before me, to help the PM think through how best to get the right structures in place to support him,” Case says. Another potential breakthrough is the way civil servants have worked across departments and fields of expertise to develop coronavirus schemes – which could finally be an answer to government’s tendency to work in silos. “You know, it's a bloody difficult time for the country, and enormous numbers of people have suffered in terrible ways. No doubt, we'll look back at this in some grand way about those lessons.”, Does the enormity of the task in front of Case weigh on him? Simon Case will take over from Sir Mark Sedwill as the next Cabinet Secretary, making him one of the most powerful men in Whitehall with the job of … And every day a new aspect came along.” Government needed to get to grips with the medical understanding of a totally novel virus, the health messaging for the public, and all the economic and societal consequences of both the pandemic and its own measures to tackle it. [17], In August 2020 Case was announced in the Financial Times as Lord Sedwill's successor as Head of the Home Civil Service. And Case says he has been impressed by how officials have mobilised data and analysis to give ministers a picture of what is happening in the health service and, as he puts it, “out on the streets”. I'm sure the answer will be yes.”. In offices across Whitehall and the corridors of parliament, at kitchen tables and in spare bedrooms across the country, people are breathing a sigh of relief. There can be little doubt that Case’s autobiography would be fascinating. WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. Cabinet secretary Simon Case said: ‘Antonia’s appointment is great news for the Ministry of Justice. It is at this point that Case’s research background becomes apparent – before joining the Ministry of Defence as a policy adviser in 2006, he completed a doctorate in political history under Peter Hennessy, the respected historian of government. A former private secretary to Prince William will reportedly be named the UK's new top civil servant. [3][4] While at Cambridge, he rowed and was President of Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club. There is huge pressure on everybody. The 41-year-old will succeed Sir Mark Sedwill, who announced in June that he would be standing down amid rumours of a rift in 10 Downing Street. And I can't do anything other than answer it honestly. He says the civil service, now more than ever, must be a “compassionate employer”. One day we will be out of the immediate period of Covid, but those are the lessons that I think that we as government, and especially as the civil service, need to hold on to.”. Succeeding Sir Mark Sedwill as cabinet secretary and head of the civil service is a job that a lot of people – including the successful candidate – said that they did not want. That is something he’s been thinking about a lot over the last couple of years. – Here is cell phone video of three bystanders pulling a man and his wheelchair to safety off of the train tracks. [3], Case was born on 27 December 1978 in Bristol, England. [18][19] Case took up the position on 9 September 2020. Among the less contentious of Cummings’s gripes was that the civil service is too bureaucratic and has insufficient scientific, management and other specialist skills – something Case notes came up in the 1968 Fulton report on civil service reform. Those are the lessons we need to hold on to”, “It’s the context that's forced us to do this big, complex policy thinking and then rapid design and delivery of frontline services for the public. If the papers are to be believed, there are many who will be glad to see the back of Cummings. Regan, North Carolina's top environmental regulator, worked at the EPA during the Clinton and Bush administrations. He previously served as Downing Street Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Boris Johnson from May 2020. "I think people will be surprised about how much of an advocate for talent in the civil service Dominic Cummings has been", But Case says his experience working with Cummings has been “quite different to the media portrayal”. What are the things Case thinks have not gone well? [3] In 2012, he served as Head of the Olympic Secretariat, a temporary team within the Cabinet Office that was set up to oversee the delivery of the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Changing large organisations is inherently complicated – and especially one that's hundreds of thousands [of people]. Special advisers are appointed by ministers and are not subject to public appointment rules. So as always, when you're under pressure and you think ‘How do I cope with this?’, the quality of the people around you is a big factor in that.”. But alongside those successes, there has been huge criticism of the way the government has responded to coronavirus. [8] He then worked in the Northern Ireland Office and the Cabinet Office. Beckie Smith and Richard Johnstone. Simon Case will take up his role as the new cabinet secretary on 9 September, the Cabinet Office confirmed. But he did weigh in on the formation of the job – a title last held by Gavin Barwell under Theresa May, before Cummings effectively took over many of the responsibilities when he became chief adviser to Johnson. From 2.15pm: Simon Case, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service; Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office Well, the pace at which you have to move in the 21st century is even greater than it was in 1967, 1968.”. His first outing in front of a select committee was never going to be easy and, appearing before the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee on Thursday, Case was hesitant at times. That’s happened before, he says: “It's always the case when dealing with crises that weeks feel like months and days feel like weeks.” But this time was different – the enormity of the coronavirus crisis was unlike anything Case had experienced before. No, not having that,” he says. “It's deeply inspirational, actually. Coronavirus has forced officials to confront some of these problems, and Case says the “smarter, more agile delivery of public services and policy development” that has emerged during the pandemic could make government more effective in the longer term. It is just six months since Boris Johnson called Case back to No.10 to head up the government’s Covid response, but he says it feels like much longer. "The weight on the shoulders of the prime minister and his ministerial team is unbelievable. At the start of this, we didn't understand the level of asymptomatic carriers that there would be... We know that at the start we weren't doing enough testing, but we rapidly scaled that up.”, He goes on: “So there will come a time when we look at all of these lessons, I think, in every area, we’ll say to ourselves, could we have further, faster in some of those areas? Subscribe now to Civil Service World magazine, By [10], On 8 January 2016, Case was announced as the next Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister in succession to Chris Martin who had died while in office. But he notes that some of his ideas have “been around for decades”. Simon Case has been confirmed as the UK’s new top civil servant, with the prime minister saying he would do a “fantastic” job as cabinet secretary. My message to civil servants is, when you see those things, have the courage to challenge them and change them.”, Does Case think the fact that he is citing a report from half a century ago demonstrate that the civil service is difficult to change? The total number of people who have lost … But when CSW suggests the truth may out later, he is adamant there will never be a memoir. © Dods Group PLC document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); After two years at the royal household, Simon Case returned to government this summer to head up its coronavirus response. Hey there! The Duke of Cambridge is said to have given Simon Case’s appointment as Cabinet Secretary his blessing (Ben Birchall/PA) Apart from his role with the Duke of Cambridge, Mr Case’s career has included helping deliver the 2012 London Olympics, a tenure as private secretary to former prime minister David Cameron, and working on the Irish border issue created by Brexit. They are more oil tankers than speedboats”, He goes back further to the 1918 Haldane report into the machinery of government, saying some of its critique is still relevant today. For every minister who will be relieved at the news, there will surely be a frustrated historian of government wishing they had Case’s reflections on this period to look forward to. Simon is currently the Permanent Secretary in Number 10. But listening to him recount his experience of the last few months, it is as though his arrival at Downing Street was when he stepped through the looking glass. The Prime Minister has appointed Simon Case as Cabinet Secretary and head of the Civil Service, the Cabinet Office has confirmed. Headed by the Governor, the Executive Branch consists of sixteen executive departments and six statewide elected officials. Former Downing Street PPS Simon Case to return to civil service as No.10 perm sec. As an experienced permanent secretary she brings with her a … “So alongside other advice that I've given the PM, I’m very happy to talk him through how Downing Street has worked in the past, and helping him understand what the various roles have been. CSW has heard from senior officials who have butted heads with the tech enthusiast. Simon Case will take over as the UK's top civil servant next week after being appointed by Boris Johnson. At 41 Case is the second youngest cabinet secretary after Maurice Hankey, who David Welcome to the Missouri Secretary of State. “There wasn't a single bit of government... that felt like it hadn't been mobilised in response to Covid. [4] He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in History. He has called the permanent civil service an “idea for the history books” and said its HR practices reward mediocrity – and had also been pushing for major changes to recruitment and reward rules. The Cabinet Secretary is the most senior civil servant in the United Kingdom, and is based in the Cabinet Office. With Cummings gone, many are wondering whether his ideas will also vanish from government. Simon Case CVO (born 27 December 1978) is a British civil servant who has served as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service since 9 September 2020, succeeding Sir Mark Sedwill. KIRKWOOD, Mo. 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Asked about his role in the discussions, Case says he talked Johnson through the options – but “on the specifics, of course these are political appointments so the involvement of officials on all of this is relatively little”. My name is River & I am an A.I. Simon Case was appointed as … Three best-practice measures in the event of a data breach, The future of voice: how to successfully transform your legacy voice estate, Case Study: Cryptocurrency, connectivity and the cloud, Chief Nursing Officer for England's Summit. [13] In this role he was "leading the UK Government's work on exiting and seeking a new partnership with the European Union within the UK Representation to the EU". 22 May 2020 Government Tax Profession. “It’s the context that's forced us to do this big, complex policy thinking and then rapid design and delivery of frontline services. But when the prime minister asked Simon Case to take on the job, in the end he decided that he could not turn it down. [3][10] On 23 June 2017, he was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in recognition of his service in that role. Read the most recent articles written by Beckie Smith and Richard Johnstone - Where Dominic Cummings is right, and more: seven things we learned in Mark Sedwill’s CSW exit interview, Registered office: 11th Floor, The Shard, 32 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9SG. Boris Johnson said Simon Case, drafted in to be the top aide at Number 10 earlier this year, would do a 'fantastic' job as Cabinet Secretary. A former private secretary to Prince William has been named the UK's new top civil servant. Welcome to the Missouri Secretary of State. And as one of the people appointed to advise them – yeah, that burden is one that is not always especially easy to carry.”, His conversations with counterparts around the world are a comfort, he says; they are all dealing with the same challenges. In the Cabinet Office, in departments and in the Covid task force that helps formulate coronavirus measures, are “some of the finest people I've ever worked with, who are just working themselves so hard in service of their countries”. The civil service advertised for a replacement cabinet secretary with a proposed salary of £200,000. It is a period that will be studied by historians for decades to come – even without Case’s memoirs to help them. [15], In March 2018, it was announced that Case would be the next Private Secretary to the Duke of Cambridge: he took up the appointment in July 2018. 97% of civil servants want work from home option in … Missouri’s Executive Branch consists of all state elective and appointive employees and is responsible for executing the laws of the state. “That's a very good question. Who is Simon Case: the ‘free-thinking’ Boris Johnson ally set to head the civil service Ex-assistant to Prince William lined up to replace Mark Sedwill as cabinet secretary “To be very candid, the complexity of the problem was the thing that first hit me.”, “There wasn't a single bit of government that felt like it hadn't been mobilised in response to Covid”. They are more oil tankers, usually, than they are speedboats, when it comes to turning circles.”, “Changing large organisations is inherently complicated. Before leaving for Kensington Palace, he was the lead civil servant tasked with finding a solution to the Irish border issue after Brexit, and had a key Brexit-focused role at the UK Representation to the EU before that. As one of the people advising them, that burden is not always easy to carry”, “The reality is there's 450,000-odd of us in the civil service who are deeply motivated to serve the public... but we aren't machines. A recent survey by civil service chief operating officer Alex Chisholm on the subject hammered that home, he says, adding: “I think that's probably right. Simon Case, who was made permanent secretary at 10 Downing Street earlier this year, is expected to be announced as cabinet secretary on Tuesday. “We often talk about how time in Covid-land is a very different thing to previous experiences of time,” he says. Simon Case, who was appointed permanent secretary of 10 Downing Street this May, has been confirmed as the next cabinet secretary. An important part of what you need to get through such a broad crisis is helping and understanding the challenges that our staff are going through in their daily lives. On 9 September, Simon Case will become the 13th cabinet secretary. Another white man with an Oxbridge degree. The person in this role acts as the senior policy adviser to the prime minister and Cabinet and as the secretary to the Cabinet, is responsible to all ministers for the efficient running of government. From January 2016 to May 2017, Case served under David Cameron and Theresa May as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Many experts argue the UK should have adopted lockdown measures earlier; the test and trace system was slow to get going and has failed to reach many of those who have come into contact with someone who has contracted the virus; and many self-employed people have been left without government support while their incomes have taken a hit. Simon Case will take up his role as the new cabinet secretary on 9 September, the Cabinet … Simon Case, drafted in by Boris Johnson to be the top aide at Number 10 earlier this year, is expected to be unveiled as the youngest Cabinet Secretary in living memory tomorrow. [2] That role had been vacant for eight years after Sir Jeremy Heywood left in 2012. [5] He then undertook postgraduate research in political history at Queen Mary University of London, and graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 2007. His appointment as No.10 permanent secretary in June, then as cabinet secretary in September, came as the government was tackling two national crises – Covid and the fraught negotiations at the end of the Brexit transition period – and with No.10 apparently in the throes of a power struggle. Covid deaths today pushed 1,000 for the third day in a row as cases rose by a further 48,682. The departures came only a couple of months into Case’s appointment as cabinet secretary, and it was reported that he had approached Cain about the chief of staff job. LONDON — Simon Case has been appointed Cabinet secretary and chief of the U.K.'s civil service. Simon Case will not be writing a memoir. And so it's not really surprising it's the same themes coming up. I think that the civil service, like many employers all around the country, has made real strides forwards on helping people learn to talk about their mental health, understand and be comfortable talking about the pressure they're under, and think about any help that they might need. Simon Case was appointed Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service in September 2020. Earlier this year, his former boss appeared in the BBC documentary Prince William, Football and Mental Health, which followed the duke as he tried to get men to open up about mental-health issues. Please turn on JavaScript loading. [12] In January 2018, he was appointed Director General Northern Ireland and Ireland:[14] in this role, he acted as the lead civil servant for finding a solution to the Irish border issue post-Brexit. Even before Case returned to government this summer after a two-year hiatus at the royal household, some politicians would surely have been glad of that fact. [3] He then returned to the Cabinet Office, where he was Executive Director of the Implementation Group. The International Comparators Joint Unit – a team of officials set up between the Cabinet Office and Foreign Office to analyse and assess global responses to Covid – is a “phenomenal example” of how that can work, the cab sec says. How do you get more expertise in? Simon Case: Boris Johnson appoints close ally and former aide to Prince William as new cabinet secretary. “At the heart [of those conversations] – in a way that perhaps I haven't felt for quite a long time, if ever – is that all the decisions we're taking in work have such a direct impact on the people around us.”. 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