The pledge to end the 'postcode lottery' in who gets free social care might not bear fruit because primary care trusts are ignoring new guidance from the Department of Health, Public Finance has...
Traditional procurement is delivering more value for money as the discipline of the Private Finance Initiative spreads across the market, the Treasury's head of PFI policy has said.
Most council tenants whose homes are transferred to housing associations fail to notice much difference in service, the latest Survey of English housing reveals.
Ministers have not given sufficient thought to the practical consequences of involving more third sector organisations in the delivery of public services, commissioning experts have said.
he shock waves from Northern Rock continue to reverberate throughout the British economy. But what do the financial upheavals mean for public sector organisations and employees? Paul Gosling delves...
The Comprehensive Spending Review is imminent but Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andy Burnham still has some juggling to do not least to find the funding for the PM's new plans for public services...
The government has done it again, rushing to set up new structures without waiting for the due process of law. This time it concerns Local Involvement Networks, which are set to replace NHS patient...
The government's forthcoming ten-year strategy for children must address the educational needs of the most disadvantaged and disaffected youngsters, experts said this week.
The government's move towards 'lighter-touch' regulation in adult social care creates new concerns, a senior inspector told delegates at the CIPFA social care finance conference on September 24.
The Blairite era of public service reform was seemingly declared dead at this year's Labour Party conference, held in Bournemouth on September 24 27, as the language of choice and markets was...
Social landlords must quickly decide their unique selling points to compete in the increasingly complex house-building market, the new head of the Housing Corporation has said.
A single body should replace the 'overcrowded landscape' of organisations that audit, inspect and regulate public services in Scotland, an independent review has concluded.
Plans by the Scottish government to freeze council tax and cut business rates will cost more than £1.3bn over the next three years, according to a leading public finance commentator and former...
Social landlords must help to build a national consensus over the need for more house building by raising environmental standards on new estates, housing minister Yvette Cooper said this week.
'Hidden communities' of immigrants could be overlooked in forthcoming government grant settlements to local authorities, putting service provision at risk, urban councils have warned.
Councils are being urged to begin candid discussions with their residents about the imminent possibility of cuts in social care services following next month's Comprehensive Spending Review.
All nationally set targets should be scrapped under a new covenant between central and local government, the Liberal Democrat annual conference in Brighton agreed this week.
It was inevitable that Professor Martin Cave's recommendation that all providers of social housing should come under a single regulator would fail to please everybody.
The role of shadowing Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has been split between two MSPs in the shadow Cabinet appointed this week by the new Labour leader, Wendy Alexander.
The grumblings from public sector trade unions are growing louder as Gordon Brown prepares for his first Labour Party conference as prime minister next week. But the strike threats over the pay rise...