First Minister Henry McLeish has risked confrontation with unions and councils by making his strongest commitment yet to the Blairite programme of public services modernisation through private sector...
Labour leaders at Camden council are heading for a showdown with members over plans to revive a Private Finance Initiative that has already been rejected.
Like the sound of English batsmen's stumps being shattered, the picture of students, especially women, celebrating ever-better A-level results has fast become one of the traditional images of our...
Some 163 children, half of them pre-school age, are living in temporary accommodation and classified as homeless in the Western Health and Social Services Board area of Northern Ireland, according to...
Unions have given a lukewarm welcome to government plans for a £250m sweetener for teachers based in the Southeast who are priced out of jobs because of escalating property prices.
A private firm has angered unions by following its takeover of school support services in Bradford with an immediate warning to 1,000 former council employees to expect staff reductions.
Labour councillors in the London Borough of Camden have rejected their own plans for a Private Finance Initiative scheme to redevelop the crumbling Haverstock School.
The revolt against public-private partnerships gathered pace in the Labour Party this week as backbench MPs moved to join forces with the unions to protect public services.
The government's relationship with the main public sector unions took another downward turn this week when the teaching union, the NASUWT, said plans to privatise education services were 'dubious'...
The government has announced the locations of the first 16 centres of vocational excellence which are designed to boost young people's skills in fields where there are job vacancies.
Public sector bodies in Scotland will have to undergo tougher audit assessments from the autumn, following the introduction of a new code of practice by the auditor general and the Accounts...
The government got up to its old spinning tricks this week when Education Secretary Estelle Morris re-announced the creation of 45,000 childcare places for deprived neighbourhoods.
In what has been described as a 'near revolutionary' step, the government has reopened the debate on the unfunded police and fire pension schemes and raised the possibility of meeting pension costs...
Seven of the leading professional associations in local government have agreed a set of principles in response to Prime Minister Tony Blair's 'reform or bust' speech this week.
Nurses and health care assistants involved in pioneering work on aromatherapy, horticultural therapy and coronary care for Asian women have been recognised in the first Prince of Wales Awards for...
The government is to push ahead with plans for school reform despite stalling its much-trailed education white paper because of concerns about privatisation and the contentious issue of single-faith...
Fraud Squad officers have been called in to investigate financial irregularities in the Scottish Borders Council (SBC), as the authority's internal inquiry into a near-£4m overspend nears its...
