All posts by Richard Johnstone

About Richard Johnstone

Richard Johnstone is the executive editor of Global Government Forum, where he helps to produce editorial analysis and insight for the title’s audience of public servants around the world. Before joining GGF, he spent nearly five years at UK-based title Civil Service World, latterly as acting editor, and has worked in public policy journalism throughout his career.

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  US federal agencies share broadband data; UK says legacy IT hindered benefit increase; Singapore reviews COVID-19 response: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of all the news you need to know but might have missed Singapore government launches review of COVID-19 response The former head of the Singapore

  • Posted May 19, 2022
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  Civil service cuts ‘could cost UK its global leadership on climate change’

  The UK government has been warned that plans to cut civil service staff numbers could undermine the country’s leadership role on tackling climate change. Prime minister Boris Johnson announced last

  • Posted May 15, 2022
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  UK civil service to shrink by 91,000 jobs as Boris Johnson takes aim at ‘swollen’ Whitehall

  The UK civil service could shrink by around one-fifth under plans revealed by prime minister Boris Johnson to cut 91,000 jobs in an effort to “cut the cost of government

  • Posted May 13, 2022
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  Argentina ends remote working for officials; 5% of UK civil servants to be apprentices: management and workforce news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of all the news you need to know but might have missed Argentina returns to pre-COVID office work for civil servants The government in Argentina

  • Posted May 12, 2022
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  UK Treasury staff warned security passes being used to check who’s at their desk

  Civil servants working in the UK Treasury have been told that their office security passes are being monitored to check how often they work in the office as the row

  • Posted May 9, 2022
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  Trump White House ‘pushed back on COVID advice’; New Zealand mulls ‘managed retreat’ amid climate threat; Israel to open up government data: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of all the news you need to know but might have missed Trump White House pushed back against COVID-19 advice of government scientists Senior White

  • Posted May 5, 2022
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  ‘I call on all Americans to celebrate public servants’: President Biden hails officials who ‘do extraordinary things to make our lives better’

  President Joe Biden has hailed public servants as “the lifeblood of our democracy” as he signed a proclamation to mark the nation’s public service recognition week. In a statement released

  • Posted May 4, 2022
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  Digital’s vital role in public services ‘more recognised post-COVID’, says senior UK official

  The UK government has a renewed appreciation of the need for digital transformation following the coronavirus pandemic, one of the civil service’s most senior technology figures has told Global Government

  • Posted April 29, 2022
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  French civil servants set for salary review after Macron win – and Australian officials may be next for post-election pay rise: management & workforce news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of all the news you need to know but might have missed French civil servants set for salary review after Macron win Salary scales for

  • Posted April 28, 2022
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  ‘Maybe I was at a Downing Street party’: GGF readers respond to Rees-Mogg’s back-to-the-office note

  Global Government Forum readers have reacted with fury to UK minister Jacob Rees-Mogg’s decision to leave notes at the desks of civil servants who are working remotely saying “I look

  • Posted April 26, 2022
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