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The Role of the Staff Side in Civil Service Reform

Public AdministrationVolume 47, Issue 3 p. 281-288 The Role of the Staff Side in Civil Service Reform LESLIE WILLIAMS, LESLIE WILLIAMS An address by the Secretary General of the Civil Service National Whitley Council (Staff Side) to the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Institute of Public Administration on 6 May 1969. Mr. Williams had just completed his year as Chairman of the Executive Council.Search for more papers by this author LESLIE WILLIAMS, LESLIE WILLIAMS An address by the Secretary General of the Civil Service National Whitley Council (Staff Side) to the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Institute of Public Administration on 6 May 1969. Mr. Williams had just completed his year as Chairman of the Executive Council.Search for more papers by this author First published: September 1969 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1969.tb01152.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume47, Issue3September 1969Pages 281-288 RelatedInformation

The N.S.W. Teachers' Federation

The New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation, or more simply, the Federation, made two quite different responses to the depres sion. In the first years it attempted to maintain its traditional policies, but from 1932 to 1934 it adopted policies of withdrawal and passivity. This article begins with a description of the federation as it was in about 1929 and an outline of its first reactions to the depression. The major part of the article then deals with the period of passivity and the man most closely identified with it, the Federation's president in 1933 and 1934, Dr. C. H. Currey. ?n the eve of the depression the Federation was a stable and well entrenched institution. When formed in 1918 it inherited the policies, traditions and experience of the Public School Teachers' Association which had represented the professional and industrial interests of teachers from the last years of the nineteenth century. Thus when the depression came there had been for about thirty years a single organi sation of State school teachers in New South Wales. The Federation, unitary in function despite its title, had no rivals for teachers' loyalties and enrolled 60 per cent of all teachers in 1929. The non-joiners were mostly young teachers, especially women planning to marry, so that the great majority of career-minded teachers were members. The Depart ment of Education encouraged teachers to join the Federation because as well as providing a forum for educational discussion it played an important role in the functioning of the administrative machine. The Federation, then, accepted without question society's assumptions about the nature of education and the traditionally centralised administrative structure. Its long-term aim was co-operative management of the Depart ment through a committee of teachers and administrators; a scheme inspired by the Whitley Councils set up in Britain after 1919.1 The Federation was, however, not a completely tame cat. It was prepared to attack the Department, the Minister and the Government if it felt that the interests of teachers and public education were threatened. Because the teachers' employer was the State, the Federation was involved in political controversy more often that many unions of workers in private industry. In the 1920s the major issues of educational politics which roused the Federation were the reimposition of High School fees and other economies of 1922, school loyalty ceremonies, the removal of public servants from arbitration, and alterations in school holidays. The Federation avoided formal commitment to a political party and to the Trades and Labour Council, but used petitions, deputa tions, mass meetings of teachers and campaigns at election times to push its case. It had some successes in the fluctuating political scene of New South Wales in the 1920s and for a time hoped for similar successes as depression measures were imposed. The depression brought some unemployment to the teaching service

Whitley Council for the Health Services

Whitley Council for the Health Services

How a Whitley Council Works

How a Whitley Council Works

Whitley Councils

Whitley Councils

Whitley Councils in the Health Services

Public AdministrationVolume 35, Issue 4 p. 359-372 Whitley Councils in the Health Services Glyn Picton, Glyn Picton Mr. Picton is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He is a member of the Management Side of a Whitley Council and an Independent Member of three Wages Councils. The views he expresses are personal.Search for more papers by this author Glyn Picton, Glyn Picton Mr. Picton is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He is a member of the Management Side of a Whitley Council and an Independent Member of three Wages Councils. The views he expresses are personal.Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1957 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1957.tb01317.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume35, Issue4December 1957Pages 359-372 RelatedInformation

Whitley Councils

Whitley Councils

Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain) Professional and Technical Council “A”

Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain) Professional and Technical Council “A”

Professional and Technical Staffs ‘A’ Council of the Whitley Councils for the Health Service (Great Britain) Salaries

Professional and Technical Staffs ‘A’ Council of the Whitley Councils for the Health Service (Great Britain) Salaries

REMUNERATION OF HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF: A statement by Sir RUSSELL BRAIN as chairman of the Staff Side of Committee B of the Medical Whitley Council

REMUNERATION OF HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF: A statement by Sir RUSSELL BRAIN as chairman of the Staff Side of Committee B of the Medical Whitley Council

Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain). Professional and Technical Staffs “A” Council Staff Side. Extract from P.T.A. Statement No. 19

Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain). Professional and Technical Staffs “A” Council Staff Side. Extract from P.T.A. Statement No. 19

Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Gt. Britain) Professional and Technical Council “A”

Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Gt. Britain) Professional and Technical Council “A”

The General Council of the Whitley Councils for the Health Service (GT. Britain)

The General Council of the Whitley Councils for the Health Service (GT. Britain)

Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain): Professional and Technical Staffs Council ‘A’

Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain): Professional and Technical Staffs Council ‘A’

Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain)

Whitley Councils for the Health Services (Great Britain)

Reflections of a District Whitley Council Secretary

Reflections of a District Whitley Council Secretary

Whitley Council for the Health Services (Great Britain): Professional and Technical Council “A”

Whitley Council for the Health Services (Great Britain): Professional and Technical Council “A”

Whitley Councils for the Health Services

Whitley Councils for the Health Services

Whitley Councils for the Health Service (Great Britain): Professional & Technical Staffs ‘A’ Council (Staff Side)

Whitley Councils for the Health Service (Great Britain): Professional & Technical Staffs ‘A’ Council (Staff Side)

Civil Service Recruitment During the Reconstruction Period

THE report of the Committee of the Civil Service National Whitley Council on the staffing of the Civil Service during the reconstruction period, appointed in accordance with the Government's request as announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons on February 17, 1944, and containing proposals agreed between the official side and the staff side of the Council, has now been published*, under cover of a statement by the Government. The report proceeds on the basis envisaged in the Chancellor's statement that recruitment to the permanent service should begin at the earliest possible moment after the end of hostilities in Europe, continuing steadily throughout the reconstruction period, to provide for the required intake by departments of appropriately qualified men and women, and for the smooth transfer into permanent employment of those selected, whether from the Fighting Forces or otherwise.