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Government Actuary鈥檚 Department launches new blog site.
The Government Actuary鈥檚 Department (GAD) has launched a new blog site, where you can read more about the projects and successes of the department, by GAD people themselves.
The new platform joins other government departments and public bodies on where people in GAD will post blogs about our work on a regular basis.
Intelligent and informed analysis
In his opening blog, the Government Actuary Martin Clarke talks about the detailed issues which people in GAD deal with on a regular basis. These can include examining the:
鈥� appropriate cost today for the future pensions of 5 million public sector workers
鈥� NHS鈥檚 liability for clinical negligence claims and what influences it
鈥� appropriate solvency standard for the emerging defined benefit pension consolidators
Martin Clarke commented: 鈥淭hese are all fascinating areas where public policy and the national interest intersect with the worlds of risk and uncertainty. An intelligent and informed analysis based on evidence and assumptions can lead to better decisions, and 鈥� in many cases 鈥� the avoidance of unnecessary costs.鈥�
Risk management 鈥� and recruitment
In other posts we hear from GAD actuary Andy Jinks, who looks at the knotty problem of . As he says, it鈥檚 鈥渁n approach that鈥檚 applied more widely in the identification and management of any type of risk.鈥�
We hear too from GAD鈥檚 Head of HR Operations about the department has ever run. We have vacancies for 12 actuaries and 6 part-qualified actuarial trainees, as well as an accounts receivable officer in the finance team 鈥� that鈥檚 19 people in all. Read Shamailla鈥檚 blog about how the HR team is working with GAD team leaders to make sure the whole exercise runs as smoothly as possible.
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