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  • Public Finance
    25 Sep 08
    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...
  • Public Finance
    21 Sep 08
    The chair of the nascent social housing regulator has issued a stark warning to providers that they must improve their performance.
  • Public Finance
    18 Sep 08
    The fraught global economic situation could help Prime Minister Gordon Brown to sidestep questions over his leadership at Labour's party conference next week, according to well-placed observers.
  • Public Finance
    18 Sep 08
    The new chair of the Local Government Association, Margaret Eaton, has welcomed the first council takeover of a post office to save it from closure.
  • Public Finance
    18 Sep 08
    A government-backed investment fund for third sector organisations has helped form the largest social enterprise consortium of its kind to provide out-of-hours health care
  • Public Finance
    18 Sep 08
    With Lord Darzi's review pushing for greater integration of health and social care, the appointment of a joint finance director for Kingston's council and primary care trust is being closely watched
  • Public Finance
    18 Sep 08
    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
  • Public Finance
    18 Sep 08
    Against all the odds, Number 10 is banking on its latest economic rescue package to turn round the PM's and the party's fortunes. As Labour's annual conference convenes, Peter Riddell weighs up their...
  • Public Finance
    11 Sep 08
    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...
  • Public Finance
    11 Sep 08
    Soaring energy bills mean that nearly 5.5 million households will be in fuel poverty by the end of 2008, more than double the number three years ago, according to a survey
  • Public Finance
    11 Sep 08
    Prison officers have threatened to take strike action after it emerged that a computer disk containing the details of 5,000 justice staff had been lost by government IT contractor EDS. Justice...
  • Public Finance
    4 Sep 08
    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?
  • Public Finance
    4 Sep 08
    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...
  • Public Finance
    4 Sep 08
    Office-based working needs to become a thing of the past for civil servants, government efficiency experts have claimed.
  • Public Finance
    4 Sep 08
    Budgetary control in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has come under fire from the Public Accounts Committee.
  • Public Finance
    4 Sep 08
    The troubled Social Fund, which provides grants and loans to benefit claimants, has had its accounts qualified for the second year running after auditors identified £85m worth of errors in...
  • Public Finance
    28 Aug 08
    Former transport minister Tavish Scott has been elected leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
  • Public Finance
    28 Aug 08
    The head of the new social housing regulatory body talks to Neil Merrick about how he intends to fundamentally challenge the way that housing associations operate
  • Public Finance
    28 Aug 08
    Energy companies should forgo some of their 'eye-watering profits' to fund a national home insulation programme, town hall leaders have said.
  • Public Finance
    28 Aug 08
    As councils congratulate themselves on increasing household recycling rates, a House of Lords committee has highlighted a problem that could wreck the drive to cut down on landfill. Of Britain's...
  • Public Finance
    14 Aug 08
    Proposals from a centre-Right think-tank to abandon regeneration efforts in Northern cities and encourage residents to move to the South have been attacked as 'plain stupid' by municipal and...
  • Public Finance
    14 Aug 08
    Housing associations are struggling to sell homes targeted at first-time buyers, according to a Housing Corporation survey published on August 12.
  • Public Finance
    14 Aug 08
    Seven Scottish councils could share revenue and benefit services under groundbreaking proposals.
  • Public Finance
    14 Aug 08
    Local authorities and NHS finance managers have warned that budgets are coming under strain as inflation soars.
  • Public Finance
    14 Aug 08
    Voluntary organisations can get to people and places that other service providers struggle to reach. Or can they? The government thinks so but the public administration select committee is not so...

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