The vice-chair of the Civil Service Disability Network on the fear of those who shielded as office working returned, and on creating a more accessible.
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Leading into 2021: 21 civil service leaders preview the year ahead
With the coronavirus still affecting the country, but immunisation on the way, 2021 could be a year of both challenges and of recovery. As part of our online roundup, CSW asked senior leaders for their thoughts on the 12 months ahead. Here are 21 of their reflections
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We have to deal with the twin effects of getting Covid down to manageable proportions and getting all the rest of health and medical science back on track. Cancer, heart disease and other serious health problems have not gone away, and there are backlogs as a result of Covid we will need to deal with rapidly.
This year has thrown us lots of challenges around ensuring people can work from home’: Civil Service Disability Network chair Sue Reeves on 2020
2020 was a year unlike any other, with the coronavirus pandemic upending the work of government and changing how we live our daily lives. Senior figures from across the civil service tell us how the unprecedented 12 months affected them, and look ahead to 2021
Sue Reeves Chair Civil Service Disability Network
What are you proudest of government achieving in 2020?
Over the past year members of the civil service have had to change the way we work dramatically. Having to work from home, communicate by virtual conferencing and deal with the pandemic has been quite a shift. As part of this the Civil Service Disability Network has also changed but we, like much of the civil service, have taken this opportunity and grown in strength and size. We now have meetings remotely, we have more sub-networks and we are linking up with other diversity