The struggling South London Healthcare NHS Trust should be dissolved and other organisations given responsibility for the services it supplies, the special administrator has recommended.
A member of the government’s Mutuals Taskforce has said some Whitehall departments need to do more to back employee-owned firms that could provide public services.
The first female general secretary of the TUC will have her work cut out dealing with public sector disputes and the union brothers. But don’t expect Frances O’Grady to start tub-thumping any time...
Halfway through its term in office, the coalition is still looking for a route map to recovery. The chancellor’s Autumn Statement must offer some way out of here, argues Steve Freer
The Welsh Government is set to be given capital borrowing powers after the administration reached an agreement with Westminster over future funding plans.
Plans to cut £150m from council funding for children’s services could ‘severely hamper’ town halls’ early intervention programmes and put Sure Start children’s centres at risk, the Local Government...
Why is the government copying public service models from far, far away — particularly in New Zealand? It’s a riddle wrapped in an enigma. Judy Hirst investigates
The government’s reforms to public sector pensions will reduce the average value of an individual’s scheme by more than a third, an independent assessment by the Pensions Policy Institute has...
Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed that the government will introduce payment-by-results contracts into all aspects of offender rehabilitation in the justice system by 2015.
The number of working people claiming Housing Benefit to subsidise their rent has almost doubled in the last three years, according to the National Housing Federation.
Nearly a quarter of a million jobs will be supported by £1bn of funds from the government’s Regional Growth Fund, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said.
Public sector net borrowing in September was £12.8bn, down £700m compared to the same month last year, the Office for National Statistics has revealed today.
Councils have hit out at the government’s latest proposals to reform the planning system, warning that moves to remove responsibility for decisions from town halls could ‘undermine confidence’ in...
The coalition government has very little knowledge or understanding of the impact its public sector workforce cuts are having, the Work Foundation warned today.
Alan Milburn, the government’s independent reviewer on social mobility and child poverty, has criticised the coalition’s decision to abolish the Education Maintenance Allowance.
Whitehall’s budgeting system has improved but is still not good at demonstrating whether spending decisions represent value for money, the National Audit Office said today.
Two local authority pension funds are among the six founding investors in a Treasury-backed agency set up to boost investment in capital projects across the UK.
CIPFA has criticised the government offer of cash for Council Tax Benefit schemes that limit the amount working-age people will have to pay as 'badly timed' and 'confusing'.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has revealed plans to make it easier for departments to work together to reclaim more than £25bn owed to government.
David Cameron and Alex Salmond today met at the First Minister’s office in Edinburgh to sign the agreement that paves the way for a legally binding referendum in autumn 2014 on Scottish independence.
