While (mainly in the lower ranks) expecting you to carry on working for a great deal of that notice period as if nothing had happened whilst preparing to throw your wife and family out of your MQ. It happened in previous tranches! I feel for one and all of them.
Apart from the throw you out of MQs, the organisation that I work for expected those that were recently made redundant to work up to their last day. That was after giving 4 - 6 weeks notice that you had been selected. We had known that redundancy had been coming since Nov last year but no knew numbers or who was going until they got the letter giving them the notice.
They did offer a couple of in house training courses on writing CVs and interview techniques but due to the numbers not everyone could get on the course.
Oh and they re-wrote the redundancy package in January so that those who were going would go on less generous terms.
It's great working for a public sector organisation....