Ministers have admitted that housing associations were given out-of-date information when they calculated efficiency gains as part of the Gershon review.
We are delighted and proud that Unison, one of the largest trade unions in Europe, is again sponsoring the overall team award at the Public Servants of the Year Awards 2006.
Nurses and pharmacists have hailed the dawn of a new era after the Department of Health confirmed they would be allowed to prescribe a wider range of drugs.
Investors in Private Finance Initiative projects face only a 'relatively benign' risk of expensive construction overruns or payment penalties, credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has stated.
The government has said that reform of the tax credits system will reduce overpayments after the Commons Public Accounts Committee revealed that £1.1bn in mistaken payouts might never be recovered.
Two departments involved in a tax credits fraud came under fire this week after civil servants claimed that Whitehall managers should not have kept some personal details stolen by criminals.
Pressure was increasing on Home Secretary Charles Clarke as more details emerged of the 1,023 foreign criminals who were released without being considered for deportation.
The current system for funding long-term care is 'inequitable, incoherent and financially unstable', a three-year research project by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has concluded.
More low-cost homes must be built in rural areas to avoid young people being priced out of local housing, says a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The Commons Treasury select committee has called on the government to consider raising air passenger duty to enhance its efforts to meet environmental targets.
An influential committee of MPs has demanded that the government amend the controversial Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, in order to provide safeguards against the 'misuse' of the powers it...
The Department of Health faces pressure to open up its procurement arrangements following concerns that its £4.6bn programme for private treatment centres does not offer good value for money.
CIPFA has urged the UK's Department for International Development to promote a new international reporting standard to minimise the multiple reporting burdens placed on poor countries.
The sponsor of three of the government's flagship academies has hit back at suggestions that wealthy individuals could make more of a difference to children's lives by channelling their money into...
Smaller landlords have again emerged as the most cost effective in the Housing Corporation's latest tables comparing the financial performance of housing associations.