Senior public sector figures have spelled out their disappointment with the government after this year's Queen's Speech failed to outline an overarching vision for the future of public services.
The government should use next week's Queen's Speech to introduce legislation to halve the £730m councils spend on inspection and regulation, council leaders are urging.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has vetoed for a second time a £1bn plan to build a giant, privately-financed hospital in the capital's East End, leaving the project behind schedule and exposed to...
Senior civil servants will be able to gain a professional finance qualification within two years under a fast-track scheme launched this week by CIPFA and Warwick Business School.
Ministers should undertake a thorough financial analysis of all new responsibilities handed to schools and guarantee funding for indirect costs such as new buildings, the National Union of Teachers...
The number of staff employed by Scottish local authorities has broken through the 250,000 barrier, provoking predictable claims of bureaucracy overload.
More than two-thirds of social services departments in England are performing well but a minority are either failing to provide adequate services or lack the ambition to improve, the chief inspector...
Ministers must face down fierce opposition to their pension proposals from public service unions before the general election, including calls for a national strike over plans to raise retirement ages.
Better links need to be established between education bodies and business if the quality of vocational courses is to be improved, according to the chief schools inspector.
Local authorities and primary care trusts will be in the vanguard of government plans to transform the NHS from a national sickness service to one that promotes health and wellbeing.
Britain must become an asset-owning democracy to improve the country's social mobility, Labour's chief election strategist Alan Milburn said this week.
Peter Morgan, head of accountancy development at the National Audit Office, has called for greater transparency in the presentation of Private Finance Initiative accounts.
The announcement of the provisional revenue support grant settlement has been postponed, leading to suggestions that councils could be in line for a funding increase.
The new university access regulator Sir Martin Harris has claimed that top-up tuition fees could generate up to £200m a year to fund bursaries for poorer students.
The NHS minimum wage will be set at £5.69 an hour after the largest health union voted in favour of a groundbreaking pay deal for more than a million health service staff.
Increasing numbers of state-educated students are taking up places at the UK's top universities, according to new research from an educational charity.
Truancy from schools in Northern Ireland is running at around twice the level for England, worsened by a shortage of educational welfare officers, the Northern Ireland Audit Office said this week.
Local authorities and registered social landlords must find housing efficiency savings of £835m per year by 2008 under the government's strict Gershon targets.
The government has not delivered on a 2001 manifesto pledge to improve the standard of custodial accommodation and offender behaviour programmes for young adults, a new study claims.
Government plans to slash £21.5bn from annual public sector costs by 2008 could be undermined by the private sector's inability to deliver outsourced services, a senior CBI official has warned.
NHS accident and emergency departments are 'the envy of the world', according to a Department of Health report, but need more doctors if care is to improve further.
