David Cameron has made an audacious raid on New Labour territory by calling for greater social mobility. Ahead of next week's Conservative Party conference, David Walker examines the modern politics...
The CBI's director of public services brings a wealth of negotiating and HR experience to the role and will continue to push for more private provision, she tells Paul Dicken
Young people under the age of 26 are to be offered free theatre tickets as part of a £2.5m government-funded scheme, it was announced on September 23. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said...
A fivefold rise in the number of ten-14-year-olds being locked up in England and Wales in the past decade is the result of an 'expensive and ineffective' criminal justice strategy, says children's...
Labour is giving its flagship Building Schools for the Future programme a makeover after criticisms of slow procurement, inner-city bias and poor building design
MPs from across the political divide have called for cross-party agreement on a policy of early intervention with children to tackle the 'inter-generational nature' of social problems
An expert panel on NHS change has insisted its decision to back the reduction of services at two hospitals will lead to 'high-quality' local health services
The local income tax planned by the Scottish Government is not a local tax but a national levy, which would result in councils becoming the agents of central government, a leading public sector...
The Scottish Government is to press ahead with its controversial plan for a Scottish Futures Trust, which will play a 'key role' in delivering a £35bn investment plan over the next decade, Finance...
More than 270,000 civil servants will start a national strike ballot over pay next week, after senior government ministers failed to stem the momentum among public sector unions for widespread...
Schools Secretary Ed Balls announced a growing interest from universities in sponsoring academies, as he opened Rickstones Academy in Essex on September 10
London's £16bn Crossrail project seemed finally to have left its troubled past behind when Gordon Brown approved it last year. But as the economic crisis worsens, doubts are growing and the scheme...
Problems at a minority of water companies were responsible for an 11% rise in customer complaints in 2007/08, according to a report from the Consumer Council for Water
Plans by Ofsted to outsource its early education and childcare work have provoked trade union warnings that inspections could be 'severely compromised'.
Representatives of millions of public sector workers will discuss co-ordinating strike action against the government's attempts to cap pay rises at next week's Trades Union Congress conference.
Will the new diplomas keep more young people at school and improve general skills levels or will their jack-of-all-trades nature prove unpopular with students, schools and employers?
More and more civil servants now operate at arm's length from Whitehall as part of agencies. But there are suggestions that a Tory government might reverse this trend and attempt a 'radical...
