Four out of nine Private Finance Initiative schemes fail to achieve good value for taxpayers with their facility services, the National Audit Office has found.
Public service reform will grind to a halt under Gordon Brown's premiership as the Labour party lurches to the Left, shadow chancellor George Osborne argued in a speech this week.
Public sector housing bodies have responded positively to the Disability Discrimination Act and routinely upgrade homes to suit the needs of disabled people in contrast to private sector landlords...
Trade unions have hailed as 'long overdue' the government's announcement that it is to draw up a consistent pay and conditions framework for the support staff working in England's schools.
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has told council leaders he wants to freeze council tax bills from 2008 prior to introducing a local income tax.
A review of accounting procedures for housing associations looks set to drag on to the end of the year after landlords failed to agree on how to deal with shared ownership sales.
Department of Health officials have indicated that they will enforce their contract with a key IT supplier, despite news that the £13bn NHS computer upgrade could be delayed yet again by a stalled...
A leading teaching union has called for a 10% pay rise for teachers so the profession can compete with the private sector to recruit the brightest graduates.
Health professionals have reacted angrily to news that the NHS 'underspent' by around £500m last year as it attempted to recover its £547m deficit, claiming patients and staff have suffered as a...
Councils should be given more say in the reconfiguration of hospitals, but they must thrash out concerns over hospital sites with neighbouring local authorities, according to the Institute for Public...
Consumer interest groups are pushing for a key decision-making role over the way that cash in the state-run Personal Accounts pensions scheme will be invested.
Men living in England and Wales' poorest wards suffer poor health and disability for 5.5 years longer on average than those in the richest wards, according to the Office for National Statistics.
It might be a brick too far to herald the return of the council house, but a Gordon Brown government will, it seems, recognise the need to provide more social housing, and be on the lookout for new...
The Northern Ireland Assembly has resolved to introduce free personal care for elderly and disabled people, nine years after a royal commission recommended it.
Plans to set up seven 'super-councils' in Northern Ireland are to be re-examined. This paves the way for the formation of a larger number of authorities and a delay in their establishment until 2011.
Town hall leaders this week gave a cautious welcome to the government's controversial plan to refer national infrastructure planning decisions to an independent commission.
Ambitions to regenerate the Thames Gateway area will fail unless costs are tackled and Whitehall departments and agencies co-operate, government auditors warned this week.
Whitehall departments and other large public sector employers will be subject to a compulsory carbon emissions trading scheme under government plans to meet Britain's future energy needs.
The top tier of the civil service in Scotland has been radically reorganised to fit the slimmer Cabinet introduced by the new Scottish Nationalist Party minority government.
A good settlement for local government will be a key element of a successful Comprehensive Spending Review, the Cabinet minister overseeing the spending plans said this week.