Trades Union Congress general secretary Brendan Barber is urging the government to hold its nerve and introduce a state-run national pensions scheme, warning ministers that the financial services...
Whitehall's counter-terrorism strategy since the London bombings has focused on reducing risks, but communicating that to the public has proved difficult.
The NHS Confederation has called for a renewed focus on the treatment of chronic diseases after research revealed that repeated emergency hospital admissions cost the health service £2.3bn a year.
Ministers have been accused of political expediency, amid mounting speculation that decisions have been taken to reorganise local government and delay the 2007 local elections.
Almost half of nursing and care homes for older and disabled people fail to meet the national minimum standards on administering residents' prescription medicines, the Commission for Social Care...
The government's gamble to persuade rebel MPs to back its education reforms by offering concessions over admissions procedures and the role of local authorities might still fail, opponents have told...
Sir David Henshaw, the chief executive behind Liverpool City Council's renaissance as a high-performing local authority, has been recruited by Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton to lead a review...
Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton this week warned that a rise in the basic state pension age is 'inevitable' the first firm indication that his forthcoming retirement proposals could contain...
Paul Coen, the incoming chief executive of the Local Government Association, has vowed to forge closer links between local agencies as the spur to achieving improvements in public services.
Bailiffs have been called in to collect an overdue £420,000 in business rates from the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust in Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt's constituency.
The official overseeing Whitehall's £40bn efficiency agenda this week urged public bodies to rethink plans to share back-office services, amid Treasury concerns that too many 'centres of excellence'...
Unison has called on NHS trusts to employ more cleaners after it was revealed that around half of hospitals are falling behind in efforts to cut infections with the MRSA 'superbug'.
Armed forces minister Adam Ingram has warned Ministry of Defence civil servants to expect 'a significant number' of compulsory redundancies following his decision to close key sites in Wales and the...
Health economists have called into doubt the government's presumption that its planned transfer of 5% of current hospital activity £2.4bn in budget terms to primary and social care will be cost-...
Whitehall's under-fire Department for Work and Pensions will be asked to produce an improvement plan this summer after being picked to pilot Sir Gus O'Donnell's capability reviews.
Public sector organisations should introduce operating and financial reviews, even though the government has dropped plans to make them compulsory for the private sector, CIPFA has said.
Local authorities in England and Scotland have opened the annual trial of strength with the government over council tax with the traditional pleas for more funding and warnings of service cuts.
Lenders and developers are showing renewed interest in housing schemes funded through the Private Finance Initiative, a leading civil servant said this week.
More than £9.3m a year could be saved if prisoners deemed suitable for electronic tagging as a condition of early release were sent home when eligible, government auditors said this week.
The Home Office is set to move a key accounting unit from Liverpool to its London headquarters to help prevent a repeat of the 'spectacular' financial errors unearthed by auditors this week.
A Northern council may be forced to merge some of its housing companies after being hit by the government's retreat over the way funds are allocated across the country.
