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News - December 2009
Inspectors online: the new watchdog regime
It's supposed to be lighter touch but it is certainly tougher. The Audit Commission's first area assessments were revealed this week – and put up on the Oneplace website for everyone to see. David Williams reports
10 December 2009
Nine authorities provide poor child services, inspection finds
Nine out of 152 authorities providing children's services have been given the lowest possible rating under new criteria employed by regulator Ofsted.
09 December 2009
Darling refuses to confirm where funding axe will fall
Public sector bodies were left in suspense over their future funding after Chancellor Alistair Darling refused to set out spending plans beyond 2010/11 in his Pre-Budget Report on December 9
10 December 2009
CIPFA wants to know how fiscal debt will be repaid
Public officials are calling on the Cabinet and Opposition to reveal how they plan to close the fiscal gap, after the Pre-Budget Report underlined the depth of the crisis without fully detailing how it will be tackled
10 December 2009
Chancellor to cut back major IT projects 'to save millions'
Scaling back major IT projects will contribute to £5bn of savings on government spending programmes, it was confirmed in the Pre-Budget Report
10 December 2009
Welsh social services could decline
Social care services in Wales have shown consistent improvement over the past ten years, but this could turn to decline as the sector faces new problems
10 December 2009
Scottish administration told to back up budget claims
An influential committee of MSPs has called on the Scottish Government to provide clearer and more detailed budget information on its commitment to protecting frontline services and supporting economic growth
10 December 2009
Ireland to drastically cut public sector pay
Ireland's finance minister, Brian Lenihan, has introduced a budget seeking to save €4bn, with the bulk coming from spending cuts rather than extra taxation
10 December 2009
Whitehall reforms to save over £1bn, Brown claims
The most significant reform of Whitehall in over 50 years will help to generate savings of more than £1bn, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said
10 December 2009
Scottish NHS performing well, say auditors
The NHS in Scotland has improved its financial performance and met most of its national targets for patient and service improvement, a wide-ranging analysis by Audit Scotland has found
10 December 2009
A million public sector jobs 'will have to go'
The government will need to cut at least one million public sector jobs to pay off its debts, according to a centre-Right think-tank
10 December 2009
Healey blames councils for failing decent homes standard
Efforts to improve the quality of social housing by the end of next year are being thwarted by councils failing to refurbish their homes fast enough, housing minister John Healey claimed this week
10 December 2009
State 'should focus on psychological wellbeing'
The state welfare system should be redesigned to focus on psychological wellbeing rather than material needs, according to a social policy think-tank
10 December 2009
New funding formula could be 'straightforward'
Replacing the Barnett Formula with a needs-based system would be 'relatively straightforward', according to the Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales
10 December 2009
Workers attack PBR public sector pay caps
Unions have reacted furiously to the planned caps on public sector pay and pensions outlined in yesterday's Pre-Budget Report
10 December 2009
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