Cabinet Office Minister Mark Ferguson opened the new National School of Government and Public Services on 27 October 2026, according to a government press release. The school is intended to give civil servants and public sector leaders training in areas including devolution, national security, leadership, innovation and artificial intelligence.

The first regional hub opened in York that week, with further hubs planned across the country alongside digital access routes. Training programmes, including AI courses, are to run from the school's first day. Officials said bringing training in-house is expected to reduce spending on external training over time as the school becomes fully established.

The government linked the school to wider efforts to cut spending on external consultants and reduce departmental administration costs by 16% over the next five years, which it said would deliver savings of over £2 billion a year by 2030. The release also cited an A&E demand forecasting tool in use across 50 NHS organisations and AI tutoring tools in schools aimed at halving the attainment gap for disadvantaged students.