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The National School for Government and Public Services is a generational commitment. What it needs isn't just a plan. It's an infrastructure that turns learning into demonstrable capability, not a record of activity.
The National School changes what the Cabinet Office needs from L&D infrastructure
Announced in January 2026, the National School for Government and Public Services will bring high-quality civil service training in-house at scale for the first time, covering AI, economics, finance, policy, leadership, management, commercial, data and digital, and project management. It builds to full capacity over three years.
Capability programmes going live in sequence, at pace
The National School covers ten capability domains, a rolling programme rather than a single initiative. Each one needs to be onboarded, managed, and reported on without the overhead growing alongside it.
Completion rates aren't evidence of capability
When ministers or permanent secretaries ask how civil service capability is developing, a login count isn't the answer. The organisations that earn a seat at the executive table can show what changed in the business, not what happened in the platform.
The school only works if civil servants find it worth showing up for
Structured, personalised, and connected to progression, not just a new set of mandatory completions in a different interface. The public mandate is to make L&D feel different from what came before.
What is genuinely different for the Cabinet Office 12 months from now
Not features. Not capabilities. What the organisation, the National School, and the people working in it can do differently.
Each capability programme goes live on infrastructure that scales with it
- AI, leadership, commercial and digital roll out in sequence, with no manual workarounds
- L&D teams focus on designing great learning, not managing system constraints
- Senior civil servants get real-time progress, not summaries produced two weeks later
Compliance across a large, distributed workforce is demonstrable at any moment
- Same-day answers when ministers, auditors or select committees ask
- Produced automatically, not reconstructed from spreadsheets
- Standing evidence base, not a manual reconciliation exercise
Civil servants have a development pathway that is worth committing to
- Structured, personalised, connected to progression, not mandatory completions
- Development that feels credible to the people it's designed for
- Careers built inside the civil service, not exits into the private sector
Public sector organisations that moved from measuring activity to demonstrating impact
"The platform gave our L&D team the visibility they needed to manage compliance across the whole trust, without the manual reporting overhead that had been slowing everything down."
"We needed something that could handle mandatory training and meaningful development in the same place. Kallidus gave us the structure to build a learning culture from the ground up."
"Kallidus helped us move from fragmented compliance training to a joined-up L&D approach that actually reflects where the organisation is going."
What Cabinet Office gains, and can point to when the question is asked
Figures drawn from similar large public sector organisations. These are business outcomes, not platform metrics. We can model them against Cabinet Office's specific headcount and programme scope when we meet.
We will model the four figures on the right against your own programme.
- Not time in the platform
- Measured against role competency
- Consistent across departments
- People choosing to develop
- Not just completing mandatories
- Progression that feels real
- Confidence available any time it's needed
- Ministerial-ready, without manual reconciliation
- Audit-ready evidence, not a spreadsheet chase
- AI, leadership, commercial, digital, sequenced
- One reporting spine, not ten
- Overhead doesn't scale with programmes
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Ready to talk through what this looks like for the Cabinet Office?
I put this page together with the Cabinet Office in mind. The National School for Government and Public Services is a genuine step change, a public commitment to make civil service L&D structurally better. The infrastructure needs to be ready before the ambition scales.
We work with public sector organisations navigating exactly this kind of transition, with large, distributed workforces, complex compliance, and executive pressure to demonstrate capability rather than just activity.
Ross Cockburn, Kallidus
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