Chancellor Gordon Brown must extend payment by results systems across the public services if he is to effectively re-engage staff in the reform agenda, a senior minister has claimed.
NHS reform minister Andy Burnham used his first speech since Prime Minister Tony Blair's resignation to strike a more conciliatory tone towards beleaguered NHS staff.
If the Treasury will not seize a proportion of the profits made from sales of Private Finance Initiative shares it must act to stop uncompetitive monopolies, MPs have said.
Scotland's first minority nationalist government was set to be endorsed on May 17 after the historic election of Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond as first minister.
Councils are gearing up to resume their role as significant house builders after senior Labour figures said they were vital to increasing the supply of new homes.
Town halls should seek specialist advice to drive down energy costs, which can vary by up to 50% because fuel markets are so volatile, according to research.
Dartford Borough Council plans to hold a local referendum to ask householders whether they want to switch from weekly to fortnightly rubbish collections, the first authority to do so.
Rationing of NHS services is 'inevitable' and with us now, but in future it must be done in a more systematic, transparent and equitable way, the BMA declared this week.
The Department for Communities and Local Government has reassured local regeneration projects that their funding is safe, despite the European Commission's decision to suspend some payments under the...
Senior civil servants have called for an immediate review of the Home Office's resources following the creation of the Ministry of Justice this week, claiming that they need more funds to manage the...
Hundreds of town halls have been left struggling with paperwork after the new online registration system for births and deaths was withdrawn following technical failures.
Pipe, a corporate governance adviser at Transport for London, scored 1,713 votes, well ahead of former CIPFA president Diane Colley, who came second with 1,614. Sarah Wood, interim director of...
Revenue & Customs seems unable to cope with £5.8bn of overpayments made under its tax credits system, according to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
Local political parties across Scotland were entering into crucial negotiations this week to try to strike coalition deals after election results that left all but two of Scotland's 32 councils with...
More than a quarter of home care agencies still do not meet the national minimum standards on stewardship of clients' funds, the Commission for Social Care Inspection has found.
The recent furore over health service deficits and 'poor management' has left NHS organisations struggling to fill their top jobs, the NHS Confederation has warned.
Welsh First Minister Rhodri Morgan has been given approval to talk to the leaders of Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats as he seeks to continue Labour minority rule in the Welsh Assembly.
Senior Whitehall managers this week warned that they have 'unfinished business' with the government's reform agenda and called on the next prime minister to slow the pace of change just hours after...
Cabinet Office ministers have backed down from their hardline stance and will recommence pay discussions with Whitehall's striking civil servants, Public Finance has learnt.
The system of scrutinising public services in Scotland is not 'fit for purpose' and needs to be radically reformed, council leaders and chief officials have concluded.