Public service reforms will fail unless the government addresses 'unfair tax rules' and 'muddled regulation' in the competition for contracts, business and charity leaders have warned.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is refusing to compensate councils for lost grant, even though the government's own statisticians have admitted the data used to calculate it is flawed.
Whitehall's biggest department was this week described as 'in crisis', following claims that its huge efficiency drive has left two-thirds of benefit payments delayed, services rife with IT problems...
The controversy surrounding the education white paper was stepped up this week as an influential committee of MPs failed to agree on a response to the government's proposed school reforms.
The Department of Heath must restructure the debts owed by the 169 NHS acute and primary care trusts or risk politically explosive ward closures and service cuts, the NHS Confederation has warned.
Benefits claimants are being frustrated and confused because Department for Work and Pensions leaflets are written in 'gobbledegook', Public Accounts Committee chair Edward Leigh said this week.
A High Court judge has ruled that the criteria used by many primary care trusts to assess whether someone should have to pay for their nursing care are 'fatally flawed' in law.
Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton could reinvest £4bn £7bn per year into the welfare system through savings and new tax income gleaned by reducing benefit claimants by 1 million - a target...
Scottish councils have warned that they face a bill of up to £560m and council tax increases of more than £80 a year if they settle disputes over an equal pay agreement.
An NHS trust accused of 'serious lapses' in its care of older people has promised to do 'whatever it takes' to bring its standards up to acceptable levels.
The European Commission has described as 'artificial' the government's rationale for removing the right of some local government workers to claim full pension benefits at 60.
Senior staff responsible for IT at Whitehall's largest department have claimed that the days of introducing risky 'big bang' technologies are over, but say that they are on course to provide complex...
Opposition MPs have called for an 'urgent and independent' investigation into the alleged failure of the tax credits system to deal adequately with fraud.
A London borough has called off any further stock transfer ballots after tenants on five estates rejected plans to switch their homes to housing associations.
Senior staff at the Department for Work and Pensions have outlined four key funding streams they expect will pay for the radical welfare reform proposals due to be unveiled by Work and Pensions...
CIPFA president Diane Colley is to take early retirement from Rugby Borough Council, where she has been chief executive and chief financial officer for the past ten years.
Five mental health trusts could be awarded foundation status in April, even though the Department of Health has yet to finalise how they will operate the payment by results funding system.
The Treasury will make a fresh attempt to take the controversy out of the Private Finance Initiative next month, when it makes a deeply technical but potentially significant change to the terms of...
Police forces that volunteer to merge early will have some of their set-up costs met by central government, policing minister Hazel Blears said this week. But she stressed that forces themselves had...
The National Patient Safety Agency has no powers to investigate private hospitals and treatment centres, despite the increasing numbers of NHS patients they treat, a committee of MPs heard on January...