The Treasury insisted this week that it has always intended to conduct a cross-government policy review to identify the major challenges facing the UK over the next ten years.
Sickness absence rates across the civil service rose last year, despite a blizzard of Whitehall initiatives to tackle the problem, the Cabinet Office has revealed.
More than 10% of social care posts were unfilled in September 2005, an increase of 0.6% from 2001, a survey commissioned by the Local Government Association has found.
The largest teaching union has published an independent study into academy schools amid what it calls 'considerable public and political anxiety' about the programme.
Social exclusion minister Hilary Armstrong this week warned local authorities and government departments that they must improve the way they deliver services to Britain's most vulnerable groups or...
The Department of Health has indicated that it wishes all NHS trusts to move towards the more market-orientated financial system currently experienced only by foundation trusts.
Public sector staff are set to intensify their opposition to the government's reform and pay agendas, in defiance of stern warnings from the prime minister and chancellor this week that they will not...
Public sector employment in Scotland has risen by 11% since devolution, with the largest increase in local government, latest statistics have revealed.
Councils in Scotland are in line for extra funding of around £100m to ease pressure on budgets and limit council tax rises in the year of elections to the Holyrood Parliament and local authorities.
Trade unions have vowed to fight the government's plan to outsource more than 1,650 jobs and responsibility for 25% of the NHS's non-pay spend to the German-based delivery firm DHL.
A sharp rise in the child prison population has left councils hard pressed to meet their statutory duties to care for vulnerable child ex-offenders, say town hall leaders.
Town halls need to turn their attention to the practicalities of reconfiguration should local government boundaries be redrawn, consultants are warning.
The National Audit Office has sought to play down the significance of reports that it will reopen its inquiry into a multibillion pound NHS computer scheme 12 weeks after its initial report.