Measures announced by local government minister Rosie Winterton to put councils at the heart of tackling youth unemployment have been criticised as being a ‘band aid’ to a larger problem and ‘lacking...
Health minister Mike O’Brien has warned that strategic health authorities will have to ‘justify their existence’, singling the bodies out as a possible target for cuts
Total Place could help solve the problem of drastic funding cuts for local services. But it’s going to be a steep learning curve for both Whitehall and town halls, says John Tizard
The Wales Audit Office was left with a vacancy at the top yesterday after its auditor general Jeremy Colman stepped down suddenly following concerns about his personal conduct
Cases of public sector fraud and data manipulation are set to increase over the coming months as government spending cuts put more pressure on managers to meet performance targets, experts have...
Four arm’s-length management organisations are set to drop their legal challenge to the government’s decent homes programme after two were offered money by the Homes and Communities Agency.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has signalled that he will not make time for MPs to debate a series of reform measures aimed at giving Parliament more power.
Universities should stop ‘bleating’ about funding cuts because squeezed budgets will have a worse impact on further education provision, college leaders have said.
The recession is officially over. But the misery will continue when the next government has to decide between continuing economic life support or paying off the debt. Peter Riddell asks which party...
A police authority has pointed to problems with the way local government finance legislation is framed after the government imposed a cap on its budget.
Finance Minister John Swinney has won parliamentary approval for Scotland’s £35bn spending plans after making eleventh-hour concessions to opposition parties
Health inequalities among children under five have barely improved in the past decade despite more than £10bn of government investment, research has shown
A leading civil servant has warned that public spending cuts could reach 20% over the next seven years and that compulsory public sector redundancies cannot be ruled out
The senior civil service depends too heavily on external recruits, who are paid more yet perform no better than career public servants, according to a report by MPs
The Audit Commission has hit back following revelations that it used taxpayers’ money to pay for research from a lobby group with links to the Labour Party