Local authorities remain on course to meet their Gershon efficiency targets for 2005/06 with just three months of this financial year remaining, the latest analysis from the Office of the Deputy...
Private developers bidding for grant to build new homes have had difficulty demonstrating that their bids represented value for money, the Housing Corporation said this week.
An attempt by a London borough to transfer its homes to new landlords on a piecemeal basis has run into trouble after tenants on five estates voted against any change.
Proposals for neighbourhood bodies drawing inspiration from the French commune model may be outlined when the government publishes its local government white paper later this year, David Miliband has...
Public sector employers are three times more likely to offer flexible working practices than their private sector counterparts, according to independent figures.
The future of large NHS Private Finance Initiative schemes has been questioned after the Department of Health ordered a review of the biggest PFI deal to date.
Public sector managers have been urged to make a New Year's resolution to work towards a better future for mental health, one in which services are better integrated and people are supported in the...
Government proposals to reform incapacity benefit appear to have come full circle, with senior Whitehall sources claiming that this month's welfare green paper would build on the Department for Work...
In the first of a series of speeches outlining his vision of 'compassionate Conservatism', new Tory leader David Cameron pledged to take the government's market reforms in the NHS even further.
James Strachan is to leave the Audit Commission later this month following controversy over last month's Comprehensive Performance Assessment results, it has been announced.
England's councils met the government's ambitious target to 'e-enable' their main services by the end of 2005, according to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
More than a quarter of care homes do not have enough staff and about half do not carry out mandatory security checks on new employees, the Commission for Social Care Inspection revealed this week.
Ministers are being challenged to commit themselves to a major increase in social housing after new figures showed the number of families without permanent homes still exceeds 100,000.
Health minister Lord Warner stunned delegates at the Healthcare Financial Management Association annual conference by blaming the health service's financial problems on managers.
The chair of the Revenue and Customs department this week revealed he has no idea how much fraud has occurred in the government's flagship tax credits system but estimates suggest that hundreds of...
The Health & Safety Executive and Environment Agency began a thorough investigation this week into the explosion and fire at Britain's fifth-largest oil depot at Buncefield in Hertfordshire.
The time is ripe for a wide-ranging debate on the case for devolving more powers to councils, Sir Michael Lyons said this week as he issued the interim report of his inquiry into local government.
The Ministry of Defence plans to reduce the number of performance indicators that determine payments made to Private Finance Initiative contractors, Public Finance has learnt.
Patients are 25% more likely to develop post-operative complications after being treated in one of the new privately run treatment centres than in their NHS equivalents, clinical directors claim.
The NHS has two years to implement the government's radical market and choice reforms or else risk undermining the 'founding values' of a free service based on need, Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt...