At least eight police forces, including Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, are in danger of receiving a 'poor' rating under the Home Office's new grading system for policing, due to be unveiled...
The concept of 'choice' must be extended across Britain's public services to ensure the government's radical reforms are successful, according to leading thinkers from the two main parties.
More than 100 defunct NHS sites across England are to be sold to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as part of a regeneration deal estimated to be worth £400m.
The Scottish Executive is on course to meet the majority of targets set out in its draft budget for 2004/05, Finance and Public Services Minister Andy Kerr announced this week.
The Home Office's emphasis on targets for imposing new drug treatment and testing orders should change to concentrating on securing positive results, the National Audit Office has said.
Gordon Brown's pledge to prune Whitehall's army of Sir Humphreys and slash billions of pounds from the government's annual spending bill ensured that these issues dominated last week's post-Budget...
Labour activists should make the most of the fact that Labour councils have set the lowest average council tax rises in the forthcoming local elections, the party's leadership has said.
Unnecessary impositions and over-zealous regulation by government agencies will be the focus of attempts to eradicate the 'regulatory creep' burdening Britain's public sector, according to the man...
The Conservative Party's review of waste and bureaucracy in the public services has already identified savings 'significantly in excess' of the £35bn-a-year target set, Oliver Letwin has told Public...
Benefit offices, jobcentres and other agencies of the Department for Work and Pensions could effectively shut down for a full week over Easter unless there is a breakthrough in the dispute over civil...
A culture change rather than extra resources is needed if police forces are to transform communities into places where people feel safe from crime, the home secretary told a conference this week.
The stage is set for a showdown between ministers and town hall leaders after authorities defied government orders not to set council tax increases above 5% and issued warnings that budgets could not...
The Commons Treasury select committee is demanding that Treasury permanent secretary Gus O'Donnell explain a three-month delay in the publication of a report outlining the future of the Inland...
Plans to sell off most of London's police stations and relocate officers to supermarkets and city centre kiosks, have been dismissed as 'clumsy, ham-fisted and ignorant' by the leader of the...
European Commission experts believe there is a 'strong chance' that the government's tough stance on immigrants from new European Union member states will be challenged in the courts.
The prison population in England and Wales reached an all-time high this week pushing the Prison Service close to 'unsafe' levels and a full-blown crisis, experts warned.
Ian Perkin, a former hospital finance director at St George's Hospital Trust in London and self-declared whistle-blower, said he would 'never again' encourage NHS staff to report irregular management...