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
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...
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...
Schools Secretary Ed Balls announced a growing interest from universities in sponsoring academies, as he opened Rickstones Academy in Essex on September 10
Problems at a minority of water companies were responsible for an 11% rise in customer complaints in 2007/08, according to a report from the Consumer Council for Water
A King's Fund report has said that the postcode lottery for patients with serious illnesses such as cancer and heart disease persists, in spite of attempts to address it.
Thousands of long-term jobseekers will be 'parked' on benefits under the government's £2bn Flexible New Deal employment policy, the Social Market Foundation has warned
Soaring energy bills mean that nearly 5.5 million households will be in fuel poverty by the end of 2008, more than double the number three years ago, according to a survey
Government plans to allow local authorities to opt out of the housing finance system have been dismissed as unworkable. Instead, the Chartered Institute of Housing is urging the government to scrap...
The Legal Services Commission has admitted to 'a difficult year' after failing to hit 19 of its 35 key performance indicator targets and seeing its new computer system collapse.
Plans by Ofsted to outsource its early education and childcare work have provoked trade union warnings that inspections could be 'severely compromised'.