All posts by Tamsin Rutter

About Tamsin Rutter

Tamsin Rutter is a journalist based in Brussels, Belgium. She writes on a variety of topics, including public services, cities, local and central government and education. She was formerly the deputy editor of the Guardian's Public Leaders Network and Housing Network.

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  Behavioural insights ‘have taken root’ in governments: OECD report

  The use of ‘behavioural insight’ techniques in public policy is entering the mainstream, a new report from the OECD argues, and the next step is to use them to influence

  • Posted April 12, 2017
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  Carrie Lam: what we know about Hong Kong’s chief executive-elect

  She may be Hong Kong’s first female leader, but the election of pro-establishment, Beijing-backed Carrie Lam spells more of the same for those fighting for greater democracy and autonomy in

  • Posted April 10, 2017
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  New Zealand’s collective accountability experiment improves results, report finds

  Holding public sector leaders collectively responsible for performance targets on persistent social problems yields better results than putting an individual in charge, according to a new report. The paper, commissioned

  • Posted March 27, 2017
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  Canada’s 2017 budget: what federal staff need to know

  The Liberals’ second federal Budget under prime minister Justin Trudeau, published on Wednesday, has been designed to please the middle class – upsetting public sector unions, which called for more

  • Posted March 24, 2017
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  Governments doing too little on gender diversity, report finds

  A new survey reveals that very few public sector organisations have implemented specific programmes to propel women into leadership roles, despite widespread agreement that greater diversity in senior jobs strengthens

  • Posted March 22, 2017
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  Norway tops happiness index while mistrust blights the US

  Norway has leapt from fourth to first place in this year’s world happiness index, on account of its high levels of social support and the absence of corruption in government

  • Posted March 21, 2017
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  Trump’s budget: federal staff braced for layoffs

  Donald Trump’s first Budget as president of the United States may, characteristically, lack detail – but for federal government employees the writing is now clearly on the wall. Billed as

  • Posted March 17, 2017
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  EU-UK trade deal could take six years, says former WTO chief

  The former director of the World Trade Organisation has said that a comprehensive trade deal between the UK and the EU could take five to six years to complete. Pascal

  • Posted March 17, 2017
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  Calls for further EU security action as new measures signed into law

  The European parliament president signed a range of security measures into law on Wednesday, a day after a leaked document written by the European Commission’s security union taskforce revealed failings

  • Posted March 16, 2017
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  Former Canadian supreme court justice to lead on UN migration efforts

  The United Nations chief has appointed Louise Arbour, a former supreme court justice from Canada, as special representative for international migration. Arbour, who has described migration as “one of the

  • Posted March 14, 2017
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