Local Government Association Liberal Democrat group leader Richard Kemp has criticised proposals from his party's shadow chancellor to slash the pay of top public sector professionals
While the review on allowing NHS patients to pay 'top-ups' without jeopardising the right to free care gathers data, a debate on this emotive subject showed that opinion in the sector is polarised
A government-backed investment fund for third sector organisations has helped form the largest social enterprise consortium of its kind to provide out-of-hours health care
A government minister has called for a national day to celebrate the UK, a stronger defence of the Union and an emphasis on civic pride to foster a greater national identity
MPs from across the political divide have called for cross-party agreement on a policy of early intervention with children to tackle the 'inter-generational nature' of social problems
The fraught global economic situation could help Prime Minister Gordon Brown to sidestep questions over his leadership at Labour's party conference next week, according to well-placed observers.
NHS Connecting for Health, the body that provides the health service with computer systems for storing patient information, has launched a consultation on the wider use of patient data
More than 270,000 civil servants will start a national strike ballot over pay next week, after senior government ministers failed to stem the momentum among public sector unions for widespread...
Prison officers have threatened to take strike action after it emerged that a computer disk containing the details of 5,000 justice staff had been lost by government IT contractor EDS. Justice...
Schools Secretary Ed Balls announced a growing interest from universities in sponsoring academies, as he opened Rickstones Academy in Essex on September 10