The NHS’s payments and incentive systems are ‘not fit for purpose’ as it faces cuts of £15bn to £20bn over the five years from 2011, the NHS Confederation has claimed.
A decade of rising investment in public services has led to an overall drop in productivity, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics.
Ministers in Scotland have been told by an influential committee to plan beyond next year’s Budget if they are to cope with the effects of the recession and a continuing decline in government...
The case for limited borrowing powers for the Scottish Government is gaining support as the Calman Commission on devolution prepares to publish its final report on June 15.
Gordon Brown’s wide-ranging changes have produced a beefed-up business department, shared ministerial responsibilities and a potentially big-hitting role for the DCLG
Newly appointed Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham has pledged to consider strengthening both councils’ powers and communities’ powers to hold them to account.
The cost of Private Finance Initiative projects will still not count towards public sector net debt, but government departments and local authorities will have to include the projects on their...
Scotland’s biggest council has made progress on tackling education and unemployment standards but has been told it needs to improve the management and development of its employees.
An extra 350,000 people will be living in overcrowded homes by 2011 because of job losses and repossessions during the recession, housing associations have claimed.
Councils are bidding for a bigger role in busting the recession, with a call from the Local Government Association for the government to channel more public spending through town halls.
Chancellor Alistair Darling will set out new efficiency targets for government departments and will reveal the scale of a future public spending squeeze in next week’s Budget.
The total contract price of Greater Manchester’s huge waste and recycling Private Finance Initiative project is £4.7bn, up almost a fifth on the sum set out in the 2008/09 budget, Public Finance can...
Teachers are threatening strike action over cuts in sixth-form funding while schools and colleges are hoping the Budget will give them more cash for educating 16 to 19-year-olds.
Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, has called for a meeting between his Cabinet and Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy to discuss ways of mitigating the effects of the recession. In his speech to...