Trust in civil servants has gone up
...But there are some big shifts in trust over time – one is the remarkable rise in trust in civil servants. This has gone from 25% in 1983, to 37% in 1993, to 53% now. Why has this happened? To be honest, I don’t have a completely convincing explanation, and I haven’t been able to find anyone who does. In fact there are a whole range of excellent reasons outlined in studies of trust in government why we might expect trust in UK civil servants to have gone down: improvements in services being banked and discounted, global insecurity making the national civil service seem less effective, constant reform undermining their image for competence etc Read More