The Scottish Executive's consultation paper on public sector reform is little more than lightweight theorising, a leading public finance academic has said.
Pay attention at the back. Teaching methods are changing. No more crowded ranks of children meekly bending their heads over exercise books, slavishly copying down whichever National Curriculum-honed...
A likely national strike by civil servants could spill over into the local government arena, with Whitehall's largest trade union this week threatening to disrupt May's local elections.
The government's IT record came under fire again this week as ministers delayed the problematic local government strategy and a controversial consortium retained a £4bn defence contract.
The social care inspectorate has called for an urgent national debate into whether or not the state should continue to provide preventative social care to disabled and frail adults.
The local government finance regime and waste monopolies have helped to make Britain Europe's worst performer in waste recycling, experts have claimed.
Legislation to free government figures from ministerial control is fundamentally flawed and the proposed new statistics watchdog must be given real teeth, the chair of the Treasury sub-committee has...
A £2bn pay and conditions deal for teachers has failed to deliver significant improvements in pupil achievement, a Scottish education watchdog has declared.
Happy New Year. If you are an adult with a disability you now have two years left to receive preventative social care that could stop your condition deteriorating further, the Local Government...
Seventeen indebted NHS trusts whose income was capped under the transition to payment by results are now eligible for additional financial support in 2007/08, the Department of Health has said.
The best-rated secondary schools are still recruiting too many of the most able pupils in spite of government efforts to narrow the gap, research for the Department for Education and Skills has found...
The Treasury-commissioned skills report is not radical enough in the solutions it offers to halt the crisis facing Britain, the Conservatives are warning.
Patients in some parts of England face longer waits for routine surgery as primary care trusts claw back deficits in the final three months of the financial year.
The Scottish Executive is on track to achieve 97% of the pledges it made when a partnership agreement was drawn up between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, First Minister Jack McConnell has claimed.
Hardworking and 'heroic' civil servants are being let down by a Whitehall culture that rewards failure and ignores successful individuals, a report by a leading think-tank has claimed.
Chancellor Gordon Brown will host eleventh-hour discussions aimed at preventing a national strike by civil servants later this month, Public Finance has learnt.
Two councils have received the go-ahead to raise £200m through the Private Finance Initiative as part of their efforts to meet the decent homes standard.