The Comprehensive Spending Review is imminent but Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andy Burnham still has some juggling to do not least to find the funding for the PM's new plans for public services...
The government has done it again, rushing to set up new structures without waiting for the due process of law. This time it concerns Local Involvement Networks, which are set to replace NHS patient...
The Blairite era of public service reform was seemingly declared dead at this year's Labour Party conference, held in Bournemouth on September 24 27, as the language of choice and markets was...
Mental health used to be the NHS's Cinderella service. Now it gets more funding than any other clinical area and has modernised its methods. But could the controversial new mental health laws roll...
The government's forthcoming ten-year strategy for children must address the educational needs of the most disadvantaged and disaffected youngsters, experts said this week.
Mature students who receive Income Support may have to drop their courses under government proposals to cut Child Benefit payments and force lone parents back to work, Public Finance has learnt.
Children sent to pupil referral units often face a limited educational curriculum and little chance of being reintegrated back into mainstream schools, Ofsted has found.
Gordon Brown and David Cameron might make out they are miles apart when it comes to education policies. But former No 10 adviser Conor Ryan finds plenty of common ground
Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week launched an ambitious plan to improve health services across developing countries by making better use of international aid but he committed no extra UK...
A rise in lone parent employment might have put the government on course to meet a crucial Public Service Agreement target, but 10% of the UK's population still lives in workless households.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has asked Conservative MPs John Bercow and Patrick Mercer and Liberal Democrat MP Matthew Taylor to provide policy advice to the government.
Northern Ireland's hospitals spend £31m more a year than they need to, compared with the unit costs of their English NHS equivalents, according to reviews conducted for Northern Ireland's Department...
There has been one gaping hole in Labour's devolution success: the English regions. RDAs and non-elected assemblies have not lived up to expectations and the new PM is looking to give more powers to...
The standard of maths and English achieved by 14-year-olds has fallen well short of government targets, prompting calls for a thorough review of the assessment system.
Former enterprise minister Wendy Alexander is in pole position to take the Scottish Labour Party leadership after former First Minister Jack McConnell resigned on August 15.
The scaling down of Public Service Agreements has been heralded as emblematic of a less centralist approach to performance management. But details of the new delivery agreements suggest otherwise
New Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain has thrown down the gauntlet in a green paper designed to get the long-term unemployed into jobs. But, as Mark Conrad reports, there are some tricky battles...
