Ken Livingstone has been forced to tone down his ambitious plans for London's transport network, after he reluctantly agreed a deal to save the capital's 2002/03 budget.
Unison this week raised 'serious concerns' over the potential scope for public sector employers to push experienced staff into early retirement to save money on pensions.
The government is considering a radical change to the structure of the Local Government Pension Scheme as it seeks to reduce the rising cost of contributions from the public purse.
Local government employers are preparing themselves for the worst pay dispute 'in a decade' after negotiations with trade unions broke up without agreement this week.
Education watchdog Mike Tomlinson praised teachers for improving the quality of education on offer in England's schools as he published his annual report for 2000/01.
Wendy Thomson's Office of Public Service Reform is to carry out a review of the willingness of government departments to let councils enjoy the new autonomy Stephen Byers promised them in his recent...
Government officials are considering a fundamental reorganisation of police pensions after it was revealed that the total liability for English and Welsh forces may have leapt to £36bn.
As many as 2 million bus journeys will be scrapped in the new financial year unless central government makes a cash injection of £10m, local authority transport officials have warned.
Local government employers have slated the trade unions' pay demand and warned that it could make many authorities' in-house services too expensive to run.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone faces a battle to force his proposed budget through the capital's assembly after the Association of London Government dismissed it as 'unacceptable and unrealistic'.
Unions and the private sector are still wrangling over the details of the government's Best Value review three weeks after the final deadline for talks, leaving the timetable for reform looking...
Ian Blair, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, has warned that the force's 2002/03 financial settlement could throw the capital's policing into 'crisis', despite a likely...
Nurses will feel 'sorely let down' by a pay rise that will give experienced staff nurses an extra £9 a week, according to the Royal College of Nursing.
Local authorities are to be ranked for the first time, with high-performers promised the freedom to sell their services and set their own council tax levels, according to this week's long-awaited...
The NHS has two years to regain public confidence or its principles of a tax-funded, equitable service may be lost for good, health minister Lord Hunt said last week.
Gordon Brown has rejected suggestions that promised service improvements resulting from increased public spending are being thwarted by Whitehall's reluctance to spend the extra money.
