Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has branded today’s public sector strike ‘inappropriate, untimely and irresponsible’ as thousands of schools closed nationwide and hospitals prioritised urgent...
Public sector pay rises will be capped at 1% after the current pay freeze ends as the government does ‘whatever it takes’ to protect Britain from the European debt crisis, Chancellor George Osborne...
Can the government’s Open Public Services agenda succeed in a period of local authority budget cuts? Public Finance and Zurich Municipal hosted a round table to debate the possibilities
As the eurozone crisis continues and sovereign debt soars, governments need to urgently reform their accounting practices. CIPFA’s chief executive, Steve Freer, calls for a collective effort across...
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has been criticised for slow progress in redressing financial management weaknesses first identified in 2008.
The National Audit Office has welcomed the ‘significant improvements’ made by the Equality & Human Rights Commission in its management of public money, leading to its first unqualified accounts
The government has abandoned plans to abolish the Youth Justice Board and bring its functions into the Ministry of Justice, citing ‘considerable opposition’ both in and outside Parliament.
Unison has increased the pressure on the government’s public sector pension changes by criticising pension tax breaks for high earners that cost £10bn a year.
The Trades Union Congress has accused the government of misleading low paid public sector workers on the impact of the planned pension contribution hikes.
The government has announced the sale of the state-owned Northern Rock bank to Virgin Money for an initial £747m, which could rise to more than £1bn by 2017.
Whitehall departments have been urged to address 'weaknesses' in how they distribute funding to local bodies, after MPs labelled the systems currently used 'complex and difficult to understand'.
Former local government chief Sir Bob Kerslake will take over as head of the civil service when Sir Gus O’Donnell leaves at the end of the year, it was announced today.
The government may need to delay its plans to raise the cap on university tuition fees if it cannot provide students with comprehensive information on the cost of courses, MPs have warned.
The government's plans to increase competition in public services can't succeed without changing the pensions protection given to transferring staff, an actuarial consultancy has warned.
The Department for International Development’s use of direct transfers of aid to people rather than to governments has had 'clear immediate benefits' but could be more efficient, the National Audit...
Chancellor George Osborne should take measures to kick-start growth while maintaining the government's deficit reduction plan when he makes his Autumn Statement later this month, according to the CBI.
More than half of central and local government workers would be unwilling to recommend a job in the public sector to others, according to a survey published today.
