Civil Service and politics

The Civil Service helps the Government of the day to develop and deliver its policies as effectively as possible. It incorporates three types of organisations – departments, agencies, and non-departmental government bodies (NDPBs), which work in a wide range of areas that touch on everyone’s day-to-day lives, such as education, health and policing. The Civil Service offers an enormous variety of roles available to all educations levels. Roles include people who deliver crucial services direct to the public across the UK, such as Jobcentre Plus staff and coastguards and more specialist roles such as policy development and implementation, including analysts, project managers, lawyers and economists.