Tom Sasse
Former Associate Director
Tom's recent work
Proposing change: How same-sex marriage became a government success story
Passing legislation to introduce same-sex marriage marked an important step in addressing the UK’s past legal discrimination against same-sex couples.
The development of the UK’s offshore wind sector 2010–16
What can this and future governments learn from the UK's successes in offshore wind policy in the 2010s?
Tackling obesity
Government squeamishness on tackling obesity will mean higher taxes and lower productivity.
All work
Academics need support to increase their policy impact
Academia must properly fund engagement if we are to avoid missing out on the benefits of expertise for policy making.
How academia can work with government
How universities, research councils and funding councils can better support policy engagement
Labour’s outsourcing policy risks creating more problems
Labour is right to identify outsourcing failures but its new policy risks creating more problems than it addresses.
The lessons from Interserve must be learnt
Another of the Government’s biggest contractors has gone into administration because it took on risky contracts it couldn’t deliver.
Chris Grayling’s charmed life threatens ministerial accountability
The continued survival of Chris Grayling in government sets a dangerous precedent for the principle of ministerial accountability.
The Ministry of Justice was wrong to outsource probation
The Ministry of Justice must address fundamental problems in the outsourcing of probation, or bring the services back in house.
Moving On: The cost of high staff turnover in the civil service
Staff turnover is weakening the civil service
Interserve shows government must do more than manage the crisis
The government should fix the problems that are causing companies to run into trouble in the first place.
Extra money alone will not tackle rough sleeping
The Prime Minister should make rough sleeping a priority for the whole of government.