Students who volunteer to help in the community should earn a reduction in the cost of going to university, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research.
In a report due to be published...
A senior figure at the Equal Opportunities Commission could head the inquiry into local government pay - an investigation that will be undertaken in the wake of this week's historic wage deal for...
Tony Blair's deteriorating relationship with public sector unions will be tested at a 'potentially explosive' Trades Union Congress this autumn, after union leaders promised to confront Labour over...
Further education colleges are claiming they could face serious budget problems in the coming year because of changes in the way that money is allocated from the standards fund.
The radiology treatment of up to half a million people is being delayed as patients wait for scans, the Audit Commission revealed in Radiology, a report published this week.
The Criminal Records Bureau will continue outsourcing work to a call centre in India for the 'foreseeable future', despite clearing its 50,000 backlog in criminal record checks.
Nick Raynsford has overridden the Audit Commission's advice and given Kingston upon Hull City Council one final chance to tackle its problems before intervening in the crisis-hit authority.
With a US-led assault on Iraq widely predicted for later this year, a report published this week reveals that the UK's armed forces may be unprepared for the conditions they would experience if the...
UK companies will be required to grant their audit committees more powers, including a final say over which accounting firm they employ, under an industry-wide code of practice being considered by...
Treasury guidance used to judge the value for money of Private Finance Initiative schemes is to be reformed in a drive to ensure 'more robust' government spending decisions.
MPs have slated the government for reneging on its promise to liberate councils from Whitehall control and demanded a 'major reappraisal' of the draft bill intended to deliver new freedoms.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is to spend the summer battling the rest of Whitehall for a reduction in use of ringfenced grants to councils, now totalling £10bn.
A cross-party report has called for the government to support 'pioneering local initiatives' as well as more realistic funding to secure the future of social care.
Whitehall departments that benefited from Gordon Brown's largesse in Monday's long-awaited Spending Review will be expected to meet 'demanding' national targets.
For all its words about devolution of control, the government effectively tightened its grip on education in the Spending Review, outlining a new blueprint for secondary schools that will explicitly...
Local government unions were this week set to unveil plans for a 'widespread escalation of industrial action' after being given the cold shoulder by employers in the wake of the first national strike...
Nick Raynsford has revealed a talent for nifty conjuring tricks in his proposals for reforming the notoriously complex Standard Spending Assessment, the method by which authorities receive their...
The Spending Review has confirmed what many expected: large increases in resources for many public services. The Budget had already told us how far the overall spending envelope would grow, and laid...
District Audit and Inspection Service functions are to be integrated for the first time under a shake-up of internal structures unveiled by the Audit Commission this week.
Relations between central and local government need to be radically transformed and much of Whitehall's power relinquished to town halls, Iain Duncan Smith has told local government leaders.
