David Cameron pledged a new era of 'freedom and control' for users of public services and challenged Gordon Brown to call an election in his speech to the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool...
Communities Minister Stewart Maxwell has given an assurance that the new Scottish government is firmly committed to achieving a 2012 target for eliminating homelessness.
Local Government Secretary Hazel Blears is under pressure to reject a proposed overhaul of council services in the Northwest, after auditors representing one of the nine bids for unitary status...
Most council tenants whose homes are transferred to housing associations fail to notice much difference in service, the latest Survey of English housing reveals.
Town halls and trade unions are demanding that the Department for Communities and Local Government expands a one-off capitalisation of revenues to help councils meet £3bn in equal pay claims across...
Ministers have not given sufficient thought to the practical consequences of involving more third sector organisations in the delivery of public services, commissioning experts have said.
Clinicians and new technology are at the centre of the government's vision for the future of the NHS, health minister Lord Ara Darzi was due to say on October 4.
Great Ormond Street hospital has gone public on its intention to establish a trading charity to circumvent the cap on private patient income for NHS foundation trusts.
The NHS foundation trust regulator Monitor has approved four more trusts for foundation status and streamlined its approval process as NHS trusts race to meet the nominal April 2008 deadline.
A Performance and Efficiency Delivery Unit is to be created in Northern Ireland to improve value for money in the public sector, Finance Minister Peter Robinson told CIPFA's annual Northern Ireland...
The pledge to end the 'postcode lottery' in who gets free social care might not bear fruit because primary care trusts are ignoring new guidance from the Department of Health, Public Finance has...
A single body should replace the 'overcrowded landscape' of organisations that audit, inspect and regulate public services in Scotland, an independent review has concluded.
Plans by the Scottish government to freeze council tax and cut business rates will cost more than £1.3bn over the next three years, according to a leading public finance commentator and former...
The government's forthcoming ten-year strategy for children must address the educational needs of the most disadvantaged and disaffected youngsters, experts said this week.
The government's move towards 'lighter-touch' regulation in adult social care creates new concerns, a senior inspector told delegates at the CIPFA social care finance conference on September 24.
The former finance director of an NHS hospital trust has been 'suspended' from CIPFA membership after being found guilty of professional misconduct and of breaching the institute's standards.
Experts from across government, education, business and the public sector are being brought together to draw up a strategy for adult education in the UK.
The Blairite era of public service reform was seemingly declared dead at this year's Labour Party conference, held in Bournemouth on September 24 27, as the language of choice and markets was...