Candidates for major public sector posts, such as the auditor general and the chief education and prisons inspectors, are to be quizzed by MPs before they take up their appointments.
Carers should be given an individual cash budget to help them cope with the strain of looking after older and disabled people, according to a leading think-tank.
The Ministry of Defence's failure to ensure its fleet of Chinook Mk3 helicopters is airworthy has been branded a 'gold standard cock-up' by a senior MP.
Elderly people and their carers should be given the flexibility to use personal social care budgets to fund gardening or cleaning services, care minister Ivan Lewis has urged.
Unions have reacted with fury to government plans to bring in private sector firms to run failing NHS trusts, while health service professionals have accused the Department of Health of recycling old...
The Scottish Government has imported ideas from the US state of Virginia in a bid to improve public accountability and enable people to assess how it is performing.
Local authorities have welcomed extra funding to help tackle violent Islamic extremism but say this must be matched with the flexibility to implement local solutions.
The Scottish Government should be given the same borrowing powers as local authorities, Finance Secretary John Swinney has told a parliamentary committee.
The Driver Vehicle and Licensing Agency made £3.4m from telephone calls to its 0870 number in the past financial year, consumer champions said this week.
The economic downturn has heightened business concerns about the new supplementary business rate, the British Chambers of Commerce has told Public Finance .
More than two-thirds of Whitehall departments failed to produce asset management plans by a December 2007 deadline, despite the potential for saving £320m on office running costs, MPs have found.
Ten years of bold reforms and massive investment have failed to have any measurable impact on reducing youth offending, says an authoritative new study.
An efficiency drive in the Department for Transport and its agencies could end up costing £81m rather than saving £57m, the National Audit Office has warned.
A change in the way gross domestic product is calculated could get the government off the hook as its fiscal rules are threatened by worsening economic forecasts, experts have suggested.
School teaching should be radically overhauled and given a new emphasis on the needs of the youngest children if the recent plateau in pupil progress is to be addressed, a centre-Left think-tank has...