Gordon Brown and David Cameron might make out they are miles apart when it comes to education policies. But former No 10 adviser Conor Ryan finds plenty of common ground
It seemed a good idea to some at the time but now support for a Planning Gain Supplement is waning. Tim Williams explains why, and suggests alternatives
Social landlords and private developers will need to meet tougher standards and cut costs to gain part of the £8bn available through the Housing Corporation's next national affordable housing...
A rise in lone parent employment might have put the government on course to meet a crucial Public Service Agreement target, but 10% of the UK's population still lives in workless households.
Modern and personalised social care services will not emerge unless councils offer innovative businesses a secure return on their investment, a report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection...
& nothing gained. Or so say the growing army of private equity investors in public services and assets. Paul Gosling explores the pros and cons of such partnerships for the public sector
The government has made slow progress against its target to clear a backlog of 450,000 asylum seekers' case files despite a five-year plan introduced last summer, the chief executive of the Border...
Serious doubts have been cast over government plans for 3 million new homes by 2020 after inspectors backed a more modest increase in house-building in Southeast England.
'Save-as-you-throw' waste collection schemes will not be exploited by local authorities as a way of generating extra cash, council leaders claimed last week.
There has been one gaping hole in Labour's devolution success: the English regions. RDAs and non-elected assemblies have not lived up to expectations and the new PM is looking to give more powers to...
Former enterprise minister Wendy Alexander is in pole position to take the Scottish Labour Party leadership after former First Minister Jack McConnell resigned on August 15.
The scaling down of Public Service Agreements has been heralded as emblematic of a less centralist approach to performance management. But details of the new delivery agreements suggest otherwise
New Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain has thrown down the gauntlet in a green paper designed to get the long-term unemployed into jobs. But, as Mark Conrad reports, there are some tricky battles...
There are huge regional differences between residents' attitudes towards reform of their local waste collection services and also the recycling schemes offered by councils, a national survey has...
A £4bn regeneration agency that will replace the Housing Corporation within two years is to be rebranded just six months after it was christened Communities England.
Housing is back at the top of the political agenda, with a green paper promising to solve the affordable housing crisis. But how is the new prime minister going to square a return to social rented...
A hastily introduced sentencing policy is damaging the criminal justice system by overcrowding Britain's jails and reintroducing the miseries of asylums within prisons, a study has claimed.
