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Guide to functional standards

This guide explains how to use functional standards to drive efficiency, effectiveness, and professionalism of functional work across government.

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This guide explains how functional standards support the effectiveness and efficiency of functional work in government.

Government functions are working together, through their functional standard managers, to develop and embed the use of functional standards.

For information about individual functional standards, please follow the links from GOV.UK - Functional Standards or contact the relevant central functional team.

For more guidance on continuous improvement, refer to the Guide to continuous improvement against functional standards.

If you have questions or feedback on this guidance, please contact: standards@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.

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Published 19 May 2021

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