Councils in London are preparing a new round of lobbying to secure more government funding for primary schools after data showed capacity problems were worse than first thought
The chair of Ofsted has launched a stinging attack on civil service governance, culture and practices, suggesting that Whitehall is risk averse and unable to deal with failure
Plans by an independent commission to give Scotland more power over finance and taxation are flawed and a ‘messy fudge’, the Holyrood government has claimed
A Right-leaning think-tank and leading consultancy have recommended that councils cull spending by 20% by 2011 through doing less, outsourcing more and becoming more financially innovative.
If governments prove incapable of agreement on limiting climate change at Copenhagen, individuals will need to slow it through their own actions. An accounting approach to sustainability can help...
The government has ‘taken its eye off the ball’ in helping the NHS to reduce health care-associated infections, according to the Public Accounts Committee
The controversy over MPs’ expenses has been passed to the new independent regulator after the public standards committee published its long-awaited report into the issue
A year and a half into the recession, how close are the public finances to Treasury forecasts and what does the future hold? In the run-up to the Pre-Budget Report, the IFS’s Carl Emmerson and Gemma...
Councils are still not being given reliable financial advice more than a year after the Icelandic banking collapse, according to the Commons communities and local government select committee
Finance Minister John Swinney has described as ‘baseless’ claims that he is intending to usurp the powers of Parliament over the abolition of quangos and other public bodies
The spending squeeze will hit new graduates hard, a think-tank has claimed, as figures show that more than half of UK graduates start their careers in the public sector
Much is expected of the Total Place initiative – ministers are hoping it will join up services while producing huge savings. Guy Clifton warns, however, that the consequences have not been properly...