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News - October 2009
Protecting health spending could hurt care budgets, Alexander warns
Political commitments to safeguard health spending could have an adverse effect on social care budgets, the director of NHS finance has warned
15 October 2009
Council staff must pay more towards pensions, says London fund head
Local government employees need to take a fairer share of pension scheme costs, the chief executive of the London Pensions Fund Authority has said
16 October 2009
Restructured Welsh health service faces 'enormous' task
The streamlined National Health Service in Wales faces an 'enormous and complicated' task in meeting expectations at a time of reduced public spending, the Welsh NHS Confederation has said
16 October 2009
Auditors fear for housing programme
Support services for vulnerable people managed by housing associations and other providers might be at risk because of funding changes, the Audit Commission has concluded
16 October 2009
Rent decrease less than RSLs expected
Housing association rents are set to fall next year, but not by as much as landlords initially feared
16 October 2009
Savings plans unrealistic, expert warns
Neither the government nor the Opposition is being realistic about driving down debt, a leading economist has told senior public sector financial managers
16 October 2009
Children detained in immigration centres suffer serious mental health and physical problems
Prolonged detention in immigration centres seriously damages the physical and mental health and wellbeing of children, a UK study has found
19 October 2009
MoD could do better with army homes
A third of armed forces families say the Ministry of Defence houses they live in are in poor condition, with a quarter adding that they are also poorly maintained, according to a report
20 October 2009
Denham pledges freedoms for councils to lead service reform
Local government should be in the vanguard of public service reform and can look forward to enhanced freedoms and flexibilities to provide it, Communities Secretary John Denham has said
22 October 2009
'Stigmatising' Neet services need shake-up, says LGA
Councils have recommended a comprehensive shake-up of services for young people not in education, employment or training, dismissing existing provision as 'bedevilled' by bureaucracy
23 October 2009
Devolving responsibility 'will take blame off ministers'
The government must decentralise power in a 'real and visible' way if it wants to end the 'blame the minister' culture in Britain
23 October 2009
Welsh government aims to invest to impress
The Welsh Assembly Government has announced the first cost-saving projects to be supported by the £60m Invest-to-Save fund
23 October 2009
Northern light at the end of the Iceland tunnel
The Icelandic government has reached agreement with the UK and the Netherlands to repay $5bn (£3bn) lost in the 2008 banking collapse
23 October 2009
From Fido to C-3P0: elderly to thrive in tomorrow's world
Robotic pets that double as fire, gas and flood alarms could form part of the next generation of measures used by councils to care for elderly people in their own homes
23 October 2009
Whitehall should put savings in Exchequer, Morse detects
Government departments need to keep less money in private banks and use the Exchequer as their main banking provider, the National Audit Office has said
23 October 2009
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