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7 Mar 02
The government's plans to overhaul the Best Value regime and introduce comprehensive performance assessments (CPA) have been lambasted by an influential local government policy organisation.
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28 Feb 02
Drug rehabilitation services are in need of urgent improvement to stop misusers from falling through the net, according to the Audit Commission.
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28 Feb 02
The Local Government Association and ministers are to agree a set of shared priorities for service delivery that will act as a 'coherent framework' governing councils' activities.
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28 Feb 02
A sense of commitment among public sector managers and staff is vital if services are to continue to improve, the Public Services Productivity Panel said this week.
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28 Feb 02
London boroughs could lose up to £250m in central government support each year unless the council tax system is fundamentally overhauled, Public Finance has learned.
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21 Feb 02
Firefighters have demanded that the remaining asylum seekers at the ravaged Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre be released as the site is unsafe.
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21 Feb 02
Glasgow contains the three most deprived areas in Britain, according to a study by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) which ranks parliamentary constituencies by their levels of poverty and social...
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21 Feb 02
Health Secretary Alan Milburn was this week told to stop tampering with the structure of the NHS and ignoring his own department's ten-year strategy to give staff more time to deliver his much...
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21 Feb 02
An influential group of public sector leaders has thrown down the gauntlet to Tony Blair and demanded that he defend frontline workers from attacks on their professionalism.
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21 Feb 02
The government's attempt to banish disillusionment with Best Value by overhauling the system is 'flawed' and needs more thought, a leading local government moderniser has told Public Finance .
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14 Feb 02
Fife Council has been forced to delay its internal investigation into why it continued to fund a local charity after it had folded.
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14 Feb 02
Hospital trusts have been given the go-ahead by health ministers for £1.1bn-worth of public-private partnership building schemes.
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14 Feb 02
So the deed is done.
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14 Feb 02
Local government minister Nick Raynsford has confirmed that councils will be allowed to invest in money market funds, as revealed two weeks ago by Public Finance .
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7 Feb 02
Just 65% of the public are happy with the overall service provided by their local authority, according to government data.
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31 Jan 02
The Association of Police Authorities has attacked the government's Police Reform Bill for undermining local policing and threatening 'meaningful modernisation'.
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31 Jan 02
Government officials are considering a fundamental reorganisation of police pensions after it was revealed that the total liability for English and Welsh forces may have leapt to £36bn.
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24 Jan 02
Politicians should hand over the day-to-day running of the NHS to an arm's length corporation, according to a report from the health think-tank, the King's Fund.
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17 Jan 02
NHS managers gave a qualified welcome to this week's announcement giving greater independence to the best trusts but remained sceptical over Alan Milburn's masterplan for a brave new world in the...
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17 Jan 02
Walsall council is in danger of 'slipping down the same slippery slope' as Hackney, Audit Commission controller Sir Andrew Foster has warned.
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10 Jan 02
The Local Government Information Unit has responded to what it described as a 'patronising', 'simplistic' and 'pseudo-scientific' local government white paper by establishing an independent...
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10 Jan 02
Education leaders have welcomed plans to 'remodel' the teaching profession by giving teachers more time to prepare and plan their lessons.
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10 Jan 02
Westminster City Council has said it will pursue all avenues to track down the £27m owed it by former leader Dame Shirley Porter and her deputy David Weeks.
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13 Dec 01
Local authorities are to be ranked for the first time, with high-performers promised the freedom to sell their services and set their own council tax levels, according to this week's long-awaited...
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13 Dec 01
Local authority Private Finance Initiative projects may become more difficult to approve as part of the fall-out from the collapse of US energy giant Enron.
7 Mar 02The government's plans to overhaul the Best Value regime and introduce comprehensive performance assessments (CPA) have been lambasted by an influential local government policy organisation.
