The saga of Westminster's missing residents was drawing to a close this week as the Office for National Statistics prepared to admit that it had underestimated the authority's population by almost 10...
A national education funding quango would be a 'retrograde step' for the sector, which must retain local flexibilities in determining how schools receive and spend cash, according to the incoming...
Scottish local authorities have called on ministers to agree to a budget of £9.3bn to fund basic services over the next year, according to proposals submitted in advance of the Spending Review.
The accounts of seven of Northern Ireland's 17 departments and major public bodies have been qualified for 2002/03 in the second year of resource accounting.
Ten new NHS foundation trusts were launched this week but there was disappointment in three candidate trusts, including two turned down for financial reasons.
Favouring maths teachers over other specialists could deprive some subjects of staff and leave schools facing equal pay claims, teaching unions have warned.
Senior civil servants this week warned that more needs to be done to follow up public inquiry recommendations, or Whitehall and governments will never learn the lessons from events such as Dr David...
A government programme to support disadvantaged families with young children is already delivering visible benefits, according to preliminary results of a long-term evaluation project.
Unison maintained its official support for Labour this week in the face of heightened hostility from members, and despite its leaders' private anger at the government's last-minute withdrawal from a...
Liverpool City Council chief executive David Henshaw leads an array of public sector figures in the Queen's birthday honours list. He was awarded a knighthood for services to local government. He won...
CBI director general Digby Jones has demanded that all savings achieved by Sir Peter Gershon's efficiency review are independently audited so that ministers' claims of success can be verified.
Government plans to end the exclusion of people with mental health problems from opportunities in employment, education and housing should become a 'watershed', a leading charity said this week.
Some of the largest police forces in England and Wales and their chief constables will come under intense scrutiny from the Home Office over the next 12 months, after failing to improve their...
Cabinet Office officials this week warned civil servants that there would be no return to national pay bargaining, despite acknowledging claims by Whitehall's largest union that there had been a '...
The government is to draw up a ten-year strategy for local government that will herald a 'new settlement' of the relationship between town halls and Whitehall.
Senior civil servants at two key departments are struggling to meet Chancellor Gordon Brown's dramatic efficiency targets, putting in doubt Whitehall's ability to deliver the wider Gershon agenda,...
The Local Government Association is to reform radically its member structure, replacing its 'static and old-fashioned' committees with cross-cutting boards in an attempt to widen its influence on...
Mental illness costs Northern Ireland almost £3bn a year more than its health and social care budget according to the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health.
Whitehall's three landmark reviews Gershon, O'Donnell and Lyons could diminish the attractiveness of working as a frontline civil servant by slashing the number of 'good bureaucrats', a new...
