Team spirit and cohesion were celebrated in this week's Public Finance Public Servants of the Year Awards even the individual winners drew attention to their importance. Editor Mike Thatcher...
Ambitious plans to use on-line auctions to save £200m on procurement contracts over three years have stalled, throwing into doubt the government's drive to slash billions of pounds from public sector...
Spiralling public sector inflation is a deeper and more complex problem for local government than the council tax issue, the leader of Kent County Council said this week.
Ministers are celebrating after successfully banning the use of bed and breakfast accommodation for families with children beyond six-week emergency periods...
The Home Office should take advantage of the opportunities presented by the Lyons review and move significant numbers of staff out of central London, a senior MP has urged.
Despite the government's commitment to reduce the size of Whitehall, the number of permanent and casual civil service staff increased during 2003, as several departments took on extra...
The Raynsford review of local government finance could amount to nothing with the current regime surviving in its present form, a senior civil servant has told MPs.
Planners, police officers and local politicians alike need to have their skills honed at a new centre of excellence if the government's sustainable development targets are to be met.
The Conservatives have pledged to 'denationalise' local government and bring about the 'rebirth of local accountability' as part of a radical resettlement of the relationship between town halls and...
US outsourcing giant EDS has confirmed it has pulled out of bidding to become a partner in the NHS Shared Financial Services, but insisted it was still committed to working with other parts of the...
Town hall leaders have published a manifesto for local government as part of a drive to exploit the growing debate over 'new localism' in the run-up to the next general election.
More than 100 defunct NHS sites across England are to be sold to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as part of a regeneration deal estimated to be worth £400m.
Public sector finance managers have given strong backing to the government's plans to relocate thousands of civil servants from London to the provinces as part of a multibillion pound efficiency
The Local Government Association has launched a review of the Improvement and Development Agency as part of its programme to scrutinise its central bodies.
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has told his party's spring conference that he is not scared to use the word 'redistribution' when describing his tax and spending plans.
Gordon Brown's pledge to prune Whitehall's army of Sir Humphreys and slash billions of pounds from the government's annual spending bill ensured that these issues dominated last week's post-Budget...
British local government is not powerful enough to underpin a switch to a social insurance scheme for national health care, while Conservative Party plans for 'patient passports' to ease the burden...
The Conservative Party will go back to first principles and avoid the lure of quick-fix solutions to the council tax controversy, its new local government finance spokesman has told Public Finance .
More than £1bn a year needs to be invested in the social housing sector to meet future demand and secure a long-term improvement in the housing market, the Treasury-commissioned review of UK housing...
Choice will play a central part in the next phase of public service reform, opening up services to greater influence from users, according to one of the prime minister's chief advisers.
The health service and EDS are to take their differences to mediation after it emerged that the IT outsourcing company was seeking compensation for the cancellation of its e-mail contract.
The stage is set for a showdown between ministers and town hall leaders after authorities defied government orders not to set council tax increases above 5% and issued warnings that budgets could not...
