Education officials are to concentrate on reform of the A-level system following the conclusion of an independent inquiry into the recent marking fiasco.
Public service unions are hopeful that Tony Blair's speech at the Labour Party conference in Blackpool this week offers a renewed opportunity for debate over the vexed question of the use of the...
Local authorities are questioning the 2001 census data published this week after they showed population drops that could knock millions of pounds off their government grants.
Linda Dickens, professor of industrial relations at Warwick Business School, is the unanimous choice to chair the local government pay commission, the body set up on the back of this year's prolonged...
The Liberal Democrats have voted in favour of a wide policy review of public services which sets out plans for radical decentralisation and a health tax to fund the NHS.
Estelle Morris's political prospects had been looking so promising. Popular with teachers and the public alike, it seemed a certainty that she would be a long-standing and well-liked education...
Tony Blair is set to go on the attack over the Private Finance Initiative at the Labour Party conference next week, where a motion calling for a moratorium on new deals is likely to be passed by...
The hit squad sent in to turn around the Criminal Records Bureau is to examine the role of both the Home Office and outsourcing firm Capita in the crisis over criminal checks, the home secretary said...
The performance of local education authorities has little bearing on pupil attainment and government policies to connect the two are 'unrealistic', Ofsted said this week.
Over the past year public services have become by default a key issue for the Liberal Democrats. Internal rows and specialist groups have dominated its policy-making.
The structure of Network Rail, the not-for-profit successor to Railtrack, will be 'unaccountable, introverted and deeply flawed', according to a leading think-tank.
Resurgent trade union power and support in the public sector is likely to be short-lived unless unions can adapt to rapidly changing workplaces, the influential Fabian Society has declared.
Paul Kirby, the Audit Commission's director of inspection, has resigned from his post just weeks before local authorities are given the results of their Comprehensive Performance Assessments.
The Home Office has parachuted a hit squad into the crisis-hit Criminal Records Bureau amid warnings that the delays in criminal checks could last into next year.
The head of corporate performance at the London Borough of Ealing has criticised the government for its inability to 'join up and join in' and for the contradictory messages sent out by the various...
A former chair of the Low Pay Commission is to head the government's independent review into firefighters' pay and conditions as the Fire Brigades Union presses ahead with a ballot for strike action...
Almost 1,000 complaints have been made against local councillors in the past four months, since the introduction of a new code of conduct under the Local Government Act 2000.
Local authority leaders are lobbying to keep child protection services firmly in the grip of local communities and councils, rather than under a centrally controlled child protection agency.
Unions and local education authorities are demanding compensation for schools as thousands are closing classrooms and using supply teachers after the Criminal Records Bureau failed to clear its...
The leader of Britain's trades union movement this week stepped up the campaign to halt the privatisation of public services, when he warned Tony Blair not to 'charge ahead' with reforms 'assuming he...
Members judged responsible for their authority's failures could be stripped of decision-making powers and replaced by 'partnership boards' under government plans to deal with poorly performing...
