The Comprehensive Performance Assessment seems to have annihilated its unloved predecessor, despite the Audit Commission's protestations to the contrary. But all is far from rosy in the embryonic new...
Home Secretary David Blunkett has laid out his vision of a Britain free from racial prejudice and described the country as an open nation 'enriched by immigration'.
'We're doing our bit, the Audit Commission is doing its bit, now you do your bit,' is the message that will be sent to ministers from the Local Government Association conference next week.
There may have been relief when the draft Local Government Bill published with requisite fanfare by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott last week finally emerged.
Department of Health officials have admitted they will have to go 'back to the drawing board' after a pilot system for reporting medical errors proved to be under-reporting mistakes.
The increasing influence of special advisers in government departments need not threaten the traditional role of civil servants, according to the permanent secretary at the Office of the Deputy Prime...
Walsall Borough Council is almost certain to be the second authority to suffer direct takeover by the government after an Audit Commission report this week castigated its continuing financial...
Stock transfers must become more attractive if the government is to achieve its target of bringing all council homes up to standard by 2010, housing professionals warned this week.
The government's refusal to allow local authorities to offer in-house stakeholder pensions could lead to a surge in popularity of the Trades Union Congress's version of the retirement package.
Unison Scotland has accused councils of manipulating public sector comparators to win approval for Private Finance Initiative schemes, after a senior auditor said PSCs were often based on 'spurious'...
City sources claimed this week that if Jarvis is judged negligent over the Potters Bar rail crash, it could result in the contractor being banned from future participation in public sector projects.
Local authorities are resorting to employing staff before criminal checks are complete while the Criminal Records Bureau has turned to India this week to solve its 30,000 backlog in applications.
Scottish local government leaders have endorsed Jack McConnell's future legislative programme as one that will make a 'real difference to real people'.
Last week, a political cycle was broken. The news that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott had regained part of his old department proved that the Cabinet Office is no longer a dumping ground for has...
Teachers' leaders have blamed rising levels of sickness among classroom staff in England on the increasing pressures they face, and claim they point to a wider problem in the profession.
Social services across the country are heading for meltdown, Unison warned this week after a report revealed social workers as the lowest-paid professional group in local government.
Images of Royal Navy warships intercepting people-traffickers in the Mediterranean and televised bulk deportations of rejected refugees in RAF transport planes are bound to trigger a reaction,...
