The Treasury has saved £6.5bn on the housing benefit bill since 1996 because of restrictions on claims introduced by the last government, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Local authorities are facing an administrative headache and a hefty bill after the government's decision to put back the local shire county elections and in all probability the general election...
Many councils are not doing enough to provide their services electronically and could get left behind if they do not act soon, local government minister Beverley Hughes warned last week.
The government's obsession with inspection to deliver improved public services does not improve performance in the UK, according to an influential policy unit.
The Liberal Democrats are once again relying on a pledge to add 1p to the basic rate of income tax to woo voters, promising to fund improvements in education and bridge the Budget deficit they claim...
The Local Government Association has said its proposal to defuse the school crisis by paying teachers overtime for providing cover for absent colleagues will be funded from existing resources.
Nearly one in five further education colleges is facing financial problems, despite £3bn being pumped into the sector by the government, according to an all-party committee of MPs.
An Ofsted report published this week revealed that six first-round Education Action Zones had failed to raise educational standards in secondary schools and, apart from 'small-scale' activities,...
Reports that the European Investment Bank is ready to inject £5bn into the government's ailing public-private partnership for the Tube were denied this week.
The fraud investigation launched last month at the London Borough of Hackney has identified financial irregularities within the education department, Public Finance has learned.
Health and education were the big winners in Gordon Brown's Budget as each received an extra £1bn from the £23bn budget surplus he revealed to Parliament on March 7.
Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged that his government will 'power ahead' with its 'fundamental' shake-up of public services if Labour wins a second term in office.
Bristol's Labour councillors may be dismayed after the city's residents shot their education spending plans to pieces last week in the first budget referendum to be held in a major city.
E-minister Patricia Hewitt has defended the decision to allocate only £30m towards the government's goal of extensive fast broadband Internet access across Britain by 2005.
Sir Michael Bichard, permanent secretary at the Department for Education and Employment, has announced unexpectedly that he will leave Whitehall at the end of May.
