Sir Nigel Crisp's resignation as permanent secretary at the Department of Health followed a breakdown in relations between ministers and senior civil servants, documents obtained by Public Finance...
The government narrowly failed to meet its ambitious target to reduce child poverty by a quarter by 2005, but senior sources are confident that the Department for Work and Pensions will achieve its...
Patients have failed to benefit from a new contract for consultants which has cost the NHS in Scotland an extra £235m over three years, Audit Scotland has found.
Plans by local authorities to meet the 2010 decent homes target are being frustrated by delays in setting up stock transfers and arm's-length management organisations.
A shortage of NHS therapists is likely to force the government to outsource a crucial part of its welfare reforms, Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton has warned.
The public probity watchdog will continue to push for changes in the way allegations of ministerial misdemeanours are investigated, it emerged this week.
Councils and Whitehall departments alike should consider adopting more creative alternatives to public infrastructure projects, according to a report from consultancy Deloitte.
Treasury officials will shortly report to Chancellor Gordon Brown on the financial implications of devolving new powers to city-regions, as the local government reform agenda took another firm step...
Unison has requested a judicial review of the government's proposed amendments to the Local Government Pension Scheme, saying its figures and reasoning are 'flawed' and 'absurd'.
Two former permanent secretaries have told a committee of MPs that a weak Parliament is allowing a dominant government to pass legislation without proper scrutiny.
The Department of Trade and Industry's Women and Work Commission has urged the government to consider seriously allowing class actions in equal pay cases.
Town hall leaders have hit back at ministerial criticisms that they are not making full use of new powers to crack down on environmental crimes such as littering and dog fouling.
NHS trusts' financial planning was in disarray this week as an embarrassed Department of Health was forced to withdraw the 2006/07 price list used in payment by results.
Scottish Communities Minister Malcolm Chisholm has given assurances that plans to transfer control of Glasgow's public housing stock to community ownership will go ahead despite a reported £300m...
Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton has said that wider access to low-cost savings plans must emerge from the consultation on Lord Turner's retirement proposals.
Productivity in the NHS is at best stagnant, despite the record sums of money invested in the health service by the government, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.