Health trade unions have set up a new campaign group that will prepare for possible strike action in the NHS over the government’s planned changes to public sector pensions.
The government has reached an agreement with Switzerland to tackle offshore tax evasion. This is expected will secure billions of pounds of unpaid tax for the UK exchequer.
Councils feel they are being transported back to the 1980s, as severe grant and budget cuts pile on the pressure to contract out services to save money. But they can gain or lose from the experience...
The government is being called upon to review the education provision available to young people with learning difficulties and disabilities after inspectors found that too few progress from school to...
The system used by the Ministry of Defence to supply the armed forces is now 'at critical risk of failure' and could leave frontline troops short of crucial equipment within a month, MPs have warned.
The Public Accounts Committee has called on the government to assess how participation in education will be affected by the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance.
The current turmoil in the global financial markets has 'vindicated' the government's decisions over spending cuts, Chancellor George Osborne said yesterday.
The coalition commitment to releasing ever more government figures is feeding the press’s reliance on data for stories. So what should the public sector do?
Local government ministers' attempts to help councils rationalise their assets and join up services continue to be hampered by other Whitehall agencies, Public Finance has learnt.
Charities could set targets to ensure that third-sector involvement in public services increases, the chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations has told Public...
Mark Lowcock is a permanent secretary with a difference. Not only is he a qualified accountant but his department's budget is actually rising. He tells PF how he is managing to cut costs while...
Thousands more civil servant posts at the Ministry of Defence are to go, only months after the government announced that 25,000 jobs would be lost by 2015.
The government's decision to award a £1.4bn train carriage contract to a German factory rather than a Derby plant is to be investigated by MPs and the National Audit Office.
Oliver Letwin, the architect of the coalition’s public sector reform plans, has told Public Finance he 'utterly rejects' trade unions' claim that greater diversity of service providers could lead to...
Civil servants, health workers and teachers face a rise in pension contributions of up to 2.4% next April and up to 6% by 2014/15, the government announced today.
