The head of the agency responsible for progressing the government’s £55bn school building programme has denied that it planned to raid council pension funds to finance struggling schemes.
A housing chief has warned that the government’s subsidy system for council properties could provide a ‘godsend’ to the far Right by forcing his council into an unpopular stock...
The chair of the Treasury select committee, John McFall, has called for the scrutiny and regulation of the financial sector to be beefed up, to prevent a recurrence of the events that led up to the...
Diverting offenders with mental health problems away from the criminal justice system and into treatment could save £700m a year, a leading research centre has claimed.
Councils are failing to give a high enough priority to shared services initiatives at a time when there is an even greater need for efficiency measures, Scotland’s local government spending...
Ministers have outlined plans for public sector employers to provide 21,000 new apprenticeships as part of a package they claim will lead to the ‘transformation’ of on-the-job training.
The Conservatives have called on the government to use public funds to rescue Private Finance Initiative projects that have ground to a halt because of the credit crunch
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
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.
South Lanarkshire Council has been criticised for a ‘surprising and disappointing’ lack of openness and audit committee arrangements that ‘fall well short of established best...
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