Public sector employment fell by a further 11,000 to 5.39 million in the second quarter of 2014 to hit the lowest level recorded since records began in 1999, the Office for National Statistics has...
Changes to the audit regime for councils being introduced following the abolition of the Audit Commission could weaken accountability for public money and lead to politicisation of scrutiny, MPs have...
A coalition of 21 healthcare bodies has called for NHS services to be reconfigured to meet the needs of the growing numbers of people with ongoing issues, especially older people, those with long...
A decision by the Department of Health to prioritise the financial stability of local health economies over fair funding allocations has meant that there has been ‘very slow progress’ towards reform...
Nearly two-thirds of people think political parties in the UK generally do not keep their election promises and fewer than one in five think politicians are good at explaining how their policies will...
Councils in England have said that plans being set out by the three main unionist parties to boost the remit of the Holyrood in the event of a no vote in next week’s Scottish independence referendum...
The next government should introduce legislation to allow as many as 40 cities in England to expand for over a period of 35 years into garden cities that would house more than 150,000 additional...
The Ministry of Defence failed to consult Army chiefs before it embarked on an austerity programme to cut 20,000 jobs, the Public Accounts Committee has revealed today.
An independent commission examining reforms to social care funding has called for some care to be made free at the point of use as part of a host of reforms to provision, paid for by charging...
Home Secretary Theresa May has said further integration of the operations of the three emergency services will be needed in the next parliament in response to budget cuts.
A majority of people support the construction of new social housing as well as a strong government role in the sector, a poll for the Fabien Society has found.
The government is getting better value for the £7bn spent each year on educating 16- to 18-year-olds but is unclear about exactly how this is being achieved, the National Audit Office has said.
A proposal by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to create a new Thames Estuary airport has been ruled out by the government’s Airports Commission which is developing plans for additional aviation...
First Minister Alex Salmond has today set out more details on the Scottish National Party’s promise of a major expansion in childcare provision in an independent Scotland, but admitted that the...
Parish councils and the Local Government Association are to work together to develop community benefit schemes to manage the locally retained revenues from fracking for shale gas.
England’s core cities have called for decade-long public service funding settlements to form part of Chancellor George Osborne’s devolution plan for the North.
Bad news stories are keeping the NHS in the headlines, despite the best efforts of ministers to shift the public’s gaze elsewhere before the election. Now two authoritative reports suggest there is a...
Councils have been forced to abandon building projects, cut back on school maintenance and borrow additional money in order to plug a £1bn ‘black hole’ in funding for school places, the Local...
The ten most deprived local authorities in England face a funding cut as much as 16 times greater than better-off areas of the country over the six years to the end of 2015/16, the Labour Party has...
Policy Exchange has encouraged politicians from all parties to develop a plan to improve the condition of Britain’s social housing estates. The think-tank said decades of neglect had led to social...