ABSTRACT
In a sense there is a question mark hanging over this exercise, for the next few years may well be ones of far-reaching change in the Civil Service. In 1968 the Fulton Committee on the Civil Service came to the conclusion that the Civil Service needed to be fundamentally changed in order to equip it for the tasks of government in the second half of the twentieth century. Since the publication of the Committee's Report there has been much debate about the accuracy of their analysis and the worth of their recommendations. The government has already accepted that classes should be abolished. Hence the administrative class will be replaced by an occupational group. In the future members of this occupational group will change posts less frequently than do present administrators and they may well, if the government accepts the Committee's recommendations, receive more formal training, specialize as either economic or social administrators, and have the opportunity to concentrate on longterm policy formation as opposed to the more day-to-day business of administration. The Committee also recommended that members of the administrative occupational group should have experience of other occupations and in particular industry, either before or after their recruitment to the Service.
