Civil service

[Cocoben]

I am currently a civil servant and my department is currently going through voluntary redundancies as I know many others are.

My partner has just been offered a role from a reserves list for the MOD. He's had a few interviews with them recently and at each one they have said that they won't be going through redundancies in their department.

He was made redundant last year when the company he worked for went into liquidation and there's been a string of jobs that haven't worked out since so don't want to end up in a similar position again.

Does anyone know do all departments will have to make cuts?

We already did- anyone taking VES was gone for March. No new ones planned but always possible.

Lots of areas in my department are relying on natural attrition rather than redundancies. Also depends on the area - in my dept policy areas are looking to make cuts, operational areas are actually recruiting. It varies hugely.

I’d go for it, even if there are redundancies it will very likely be voluntary first and they’re always oversubscribed with people wanting to go

Our counties redundancies were by 31 March. Dh safe for now but finances still tight so who knows what the future will bring.

Some Depts aren’t doing it - mine isn’t for example. Plus there will be loads of people that want to take voluntary. So many people in my Dept are massively disappointed that there is no VERS! So I wouldn’t worry about compulsory redundancy.

MOD is expected to make cuts, read about it in Civil Service World.

It is cyclical in the Civil Service, it expands and contracts. Just because redundancies are being discussed doesn’t mean he would be selected.

The good thing is once you are ‘in” then there are always opportunities to move both within and between departments as well as level and promotion opportunities.

Getting a job is the first step.