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Future Forum North: Build individual relationships with mandarins

Councils need to build individual relationships with Whitehall civil servants if they want to achieve positive outcomes, a former senior mandarin has advised.

Councils need to build individual relationships with Whitehall civil servants if they want to achieve positive outcomes, a former senior mandarin has advised.

Speaking to The MJ's Future Forum North in Manchester, Stephen Jones, who recently became director of Core Cities after almost two decades in Whitehall, said viewing the civil service as a singular collective was a mistake.

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