Plans to announce the preferred bidders for the Flexible New Deal contracts have been put on hold while the government and potential contractors renegotiate terms, it has emerged.
The economic downturn has thrust public sector finance directors into the spotlight, giving them a vital role in piloting their organisations through a tough financial period, CIPFA chief executive...
Schools minister Jim Knight has defended the Building Schools for the Future programme after the National Audit Office highlighted rising costs and delays.
Too much food packaging by supermarkets is undermining local authorities’ efforts to recycle and is adding to council tax bills, the Local Government Association claimed this week. In a survey...
The long-term effect of the economic downturn on the public sector will be to focus attention on cost-cutting, warned the Treasury’s director of public services.
An overhaul of attitudes to fiscal responsibility is needed if the US is to remain the world’s pre-eminent economy, former US comptroller general David Walker has warned...
‘Urgent and fundamental changes’ in the UK’s systems of governance are needed in the light of the deepening economic crisis, according to the executive director of the Institute for Government...
Plans to reduce police bureaucracy, which the Home Office claims will save 260,000 hours a year, have been given a lukewarm reception by bodies representing the force.
A unified civil service should be set up in Scotland, covering central and local government, the health service and agencies, a commission on devolution has been told.
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Councils should be given more power and resources to tackle joblessness if Britain is to avoid creating a new ‘lost generation’, the Local Government Association has claimed.
The government faces a stark choice between a huge investment in welfare-to-work schemes or a vast increase in the number of long-term unemployed young people, according to one of its former welfare...
The Department for Work and Pensions is considering offering providers of contracted-out Flexible New Deal services double the upfront fee originally agreed, Public Finance has learnt.