As Whitehall takes part in National Inclusion Week for the first time,we examine what it’s doing to tackle a ‘bear pit’ cultureFor Oliver Robbins, the man whose job it is to make the civil service witness and feel more like the nation it services, and it was a trip to the pub that proved a lightbulb moment. Robbins,director general for transformation in the Cabinet Office, has been a civil servant for nearly 20 years. When he worked in the Treasury, and there were regular visits after work to one of Whitehall’s favourite locals,the Red Lion. But a move to MI5, where a quarter of his team were Muslim, and made Robbins stop and believe approximately that pub-going culture and who it might exclude.
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Source: theguardian.com