Computer glitches have been blamed for a substantial drop in council tax collection in 23 local authorities, leading to a loss of more than £26m from town hall budgets last year, Public Finance has...
The government has given way to union demands to delay retirement age increases for long-serving members of the Local Government Pension Scheme until 2020, local government minister Phil Woolas...
Migrant workers contribute more to the British economy than the costs of the public services they receive, according to a study by the Trades Union Congress.
The Cabinet Office is preparing a submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review that would require Whitehall departments to work together to tackle social exclusion, ministers revealed this week.
Plans to create an independent regulator for councils, housing associations and other social landlords have failed to gain immediate government support.
Senior MPs have demanded that ministers redouble efforts to address the 'serious crisis' of the over-representation of black people in the criminal justice system.
Revenue and Customs needs to sharpen its negotiating skills after the cost of a ten-year IT contract soared to £8.5bn, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
Investing in the skills of disabled people could net the economy an extra £35bn over the next three decades as well as helping to tackle child poverty, according to research.
Public sector trade unions' opposition to the government's reform agenda led to a massive increase in the number of working days lost to strikes last year, according to figures published by the...
Public sector managers and politicians will have to ditch their embedded opposition to shared services and offshoring to achieve the savings required by the Comprehensive Spending Review, CIPFA...
Scottish local government finance could be heading for a radical change if a move to outcome budgeting is sanctioned by the new Executive, CIPFA delegates heard on June 13.
Britain will honour the aid pledges it made at Gleneagles in 2005, even if others are reneging on them, Development Secretary Hilary Benn has told Public Finance
The tensions between the demands of politics and the need for effective public services illustrate the need to look carefully at proposals for independent management of public services, incoming...
The minority Scottish National Party administration at Holyrood could be forced to revise its budget under proposed reforms backed by opposition parties.
The Treasury has attempted to reassure investors that it remains committed to the Private Finance Initiative, despite accountancy rule changes that could add an extra £23bn of debt to public sector...
The UK is one of just two 'rich' nations that have promised to increase average state pension payments over the next few years, with most countries seeking to cut contributions by over 20%,...
The public sector faces a back-to-the-future scenario under this year's Comprehensive Spending Review, according to Robert Chote, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Scottish Water has outperformed its operating targets, reducing costs by £160m a year or 40% in real terms, the Water Industry Commission for Scotland has disclosed.
Proposals to restructure equality legislation need to be seen as an opportunity to tackle entrenched social inequalities, according to the Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
Pupils in faith primary schools do no better than children in secular state primaries once covert selection has been eliminated, research from the London School of Economics has found.
Large housing associations have stepped into the debate over how much landlords can afford to borrow by warning the government to keep its hands off their surpluses.