The government will ban students from poor families as civil service internships, which is part of a drive from ministers to make Whitehall a more working class.
The main internship scheme designed to attract university students to civil service will now be available only to students of “Lower Soci-Economic Background”, which will be judged by what their parents did when they were 14 years old.
Those who are successful on internships will then be preferred for admission to fast stream, which is the main graduate program for admission to civil service.
This change is operated by Pat Macfeden, who are responsible for civil service reforms as the Chancellor of the Dachy of Lancaster.
He told the BBC: “We need to bring the youth of the more working class to the civil service, so it uses the broader category of talent and actually reflects the country.
“The government makes a better decision when it represents and understands what we serve.”
Currently a quarter of higher education students are from a low socio-economic background, but the group represented only 12% successful applicants in the fast stream in 2024.
Some labor ministers have begun to believe in their first year post that some parts of the civil service are very privileged, who have come from the same background.
A summer internship program already exists. The program is for graduation in the university in its last two years, lasts six to eight weeks and is paid.
Under changes, which will be effective for summer of 2026, intake will only be restricted to poor background students.
The program will provide them experiences including planning events, writing briefing for ministers, shaping senior civil servants and doing research for policy development.
Those who perform well are believed to have been tracked rapidly in the final stages of the fast stream selection process if they decide to apply to work in the civil service after graduation.
The government is trying to set up more career paths in senior civil service ranks outside London, announced earlier this year that the placements by 2030 will be located outside the capital on fast streams.
The Labor Government has been clearly important about some of the practices of civil service since coming to office in July last year. In December, Sir Kir Stmper said “Criticizing the civil service unions,” many people in the Whitehall are comfortable in a Tipid bath of managed declines. ,
The Prime Minister has also said that he wants to “again” the way he works for the state.
Orthodox Chhaya Cabinet Office Minister Mike Wood said that the UK’s public services “deserve the talent selected at the capacity”.
In a statement, Wood said: “We believe on the occasion based on what you can do, not where you come from.
“We want to see more and more opportunities for all working class youth. But this plan sends the message that you are not welcome until you fit a particular social profile.
“No young person should be told that they are not fully welcoming on the basis of leftist social engineering.”
