Chancellor Gordon Brown was accused this week of using accounting tricks to inflate his civil service relocation figures by including posts moved before Sir Michael Lyons' proposals for Whitehall...
Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has asked its regulator for 'time and space' to implement its financial recovery plan after its overspend was projected at more than £11m.
Stripping councils of their education funding powers will leave schools isolated and hinder the drive towards more integrated services, local government leaders warned this week.
NHS foundation trusts are lobbying ministers to be allowed to bid for the next wave of private sector health care contracts, the Healthcare Financial Management Association conference heard last week.
The head of a powerful construction consortium has warned the Office of Government Commerce that plans to reform the Private Finance Initiative are flawed.
The civil service needs to ditch its 'inherent Victorian values' if it is to better formulate and implement policies in the interests of voters, an outrider for public sector reform has warned.
Northern Ireland's public bodies are facing a growing financial crisis with all of the province's five education and library boards and some health trusts looking at large deficits unless they are...
The 'bonfire of the quangos' in Wales is likely to weaken staff morale and could affect performance during the transition period, according to the chair of one of the bodies facing abolition.
Inspectors at the Health and Safety Executive have delivered an overwhelming vote of no confidence in their management board as it prepares to tighten the criteria for accident investigations.
Ministers should undertake a thorough financial analysis of all new responsibilities handed to schools and guarantee funding for indirect costs such as new buildings, the National Union of Teachers...
The initiative giving GP practices the power to commission care for their patients should not extend to mental health services, a leading charity said this week.
Scottish Finance Minister Tom McCabe has warned health service managers that performance must improve to justify the substantial increases in resources that have led to higher spending per head than...
Local authorities can overcome cuts in funding for vulnerable people by persuading providers of support services to accept smaller surpluses, housing professionals have been told.
The Ministry of Defence came under far-from-friendly fire again this week over its procurement record when the National Audit Office slammed new budget and time overruns.
Whitehall's inadequate risk management and squandering of civil servants' vital commercial skills are hobbling government efforts to boost the value for money of public services, according to the...
In the wake of the biggest civil service strike for ten years, the leader of the Public and Commercial Services union has accused the government of turning the civil service into a 'political...
The London Borough of Ealing is in the grip of crisis with the impending departure of its entire senior management in the wake of a series of setbacks.
The forthcoming green paper on adult social care will tackle older people's reluctance to take responsibility for their own provision, senior ministers said this week.
Local authorities and registered social landlords must find housing efficiency savings of £835m per year by 2008 under the government's strict Gershon targets.
Welsh local authorities have been given a one-off minimum funding guarantee of 3.5% for 2005/06. But, despite the disruption of the council tax revaluation and funding formula changes, they have been...