The right to buy scheme is to be abolished for tenants of new-build social homes in Scotland, Health and Wellbeing Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced
Ten NHS trusts have been given Department of Health funding as part of a project aimed at improving late-stage dementia care by enhancing the patients’ living environment
Two councils could bypass the Private Finance Initiative to build a multimillion-pound waste treatment facility after PFI schemes elsewhere have been bogged down by financing problems
The government will be forced to change its position on the privatisation of Royal Mail, the author of a report at the centre of a Labour Party row has predicted
A powerful committee of MPs has warned that ‘unprecedented’ cuts in public services and substantial tax increases might be needed to claw Britain back from its worst fiscal position since the Second...
A cash-strapped government quango is poised to pay private consultants more than £400,000 to rescue part of its beleaguered college rebuilding programme
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has acknowledged the critical shortage of primary school places, saying officials are looking at ways of remedying the situation
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has approved £60m of capital funding for projects in universities and colleges that are thought to have the greatest impact on economic recovery. This...
Almost a third of schools are failing to arrange alternative education for excluded pupils within the six days now required by law, an Ofsted report has found
The failings in the Baby P case were caused by staff shortages, poor recruitment and a lack of awareness and communication among medical staff, a watchdog report has found
An influential committee of MPs has backed a controversial report recommending that patients be able to ‘top up’ NHS treatment with private care, despite fears it will result in a two-tier system