The Pensions Regulator has promised ‘to take action if necessary’ to ensure public sector pension schemes are run to high standards following government reforms that will see it assuming oversight of...
Former care minister Paul Burstow has called for the creation of an older people’s commissioner in England to represent the views of pensioners to government and encourage ministers to do more in...
The government is yet to make a ‘convincing’ case that the high-speed rail line proposed between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds is the best way to spend public money on transport schemes,...
A committee of MPs has warned that the government’s civil service reforms are ‘bound to fail’ as they lack both strategic coherence and clear leadership from ministers.
A new system for proposing and approving major projects should be introduced to provide long-term plans for infrastructure, as the country is ‘increasingly struggling to cope’, an expert commissioned...
Nearly one-third of public sector workers are considering returning to work part-time after their retirement due to concerns over how they will be able to cope financially.
Plans to launch the Universal Credit across the country over the next four years were ‘overly ambitious in both the timetable and scope’ and suffered from weak management, the National Audit Office...
The UK economy would be £60bn bigger if the level of growth predicted in 2010 had actually taken place, a study undertaken by the Trades Union Congress has found.
A ‘culture of fear’ has taken hold in the Border Force since last year’s controversy over how to manage queues at passport control points, a National Audit Office report has said.
The Ministry of Defence has wasted tens of millions of pounds through indecision on the Carrier Strike project to build two aircraft carriers, and may lack the competence to manage it, the Public...
The government is to double the number of free childcare places available for two-year-olds to help more children get ‘a brighter start in life’, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said.
The government could save as much as £70bn by 2020 if it were able to move all Whitehall services and transactions online, a report by the Policy Exchange think-tank has found.
The rate of staff cuts being made across Whitehall will need to increase if the government is to meet its target for headcount reductions by 2015, the Institute for Government said today.
Zero hours contacts are increasingly common in higher professional roles and should be the subject of a major inquiry, according to the Work Foundation
Former Chancellor Alastair Darling today urged the government to halt plans for the High Speed 2 rail line, warning that the scheme would restrict vital improvements to other part of the network.
Higher-than-expected government spending meant that the public sector borrowed £62m in July, a month that usually shows a surplus in the public finances, the Office for Budget Responsibility has said.
Accounting and finance vacancies in the NHS, local government, housing and charity sectors have doubled in the last year, a recruitment consultancy has said.
Public services should be outsourced to employee-owned mutuals only with the consent of the staff concerned, co-operatives and trade unionists have said.
More people could choose to start receiving their state pension as soon as they are eligible, following planned changes to deferment payments, consultancy Hymans Robertson has warned.
