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28 Sep 00
A supervision and surveillance scheme designed to curb the country's worst young offenders will do little to reduce youth crime, probation officers warned this week.
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28 Sep 00
Local authorities are being urged to press ahead with setting up arm's-length housing management companies 18 months before they will be allowed to spend any extra money on their stock.
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28 Sep 00
A directly elected mayor for just 22,000 people is hardly what Tony Blair had in mind for his new system of political governance, but one of England's smallest boroughs is leading the mayoral race.
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21 Sep 00
Housing association rents should not be kept artificially high so that registered social landlords can fund activities linked to neighbourhood renewal, housing minister Nick Raynsford warned this...
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21 Sep 00
Local authorities are gearing up for annual spending spats with schools after the government backed down on its threat for direct education funding in this week's finance green paper.
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14 Sep 00
The first seven councils to be assessed on Best Value criteria by Wendy Thomson's new local government inspectorate have passed with flying colours.
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14 Sep 00
Local authorities were trying to pick up the pieces of disrupted services as fuel began to trickle slowly back into garages and council depots after the government's ultimatum to petrol companies to...
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14 Sep 00
Local authorities have voiced fears that next week's Finance green paper will be nothing more than a damp squib with vague proposals designed to smooth tensions until after the General Election.
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14 Sep 00
Nearly three-quarters of London councils have altered their structures to take account of the move towards Cabinet-style decision-making set out in the Local Government Act.
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14 Sep 00
A £1.3m government-funded research programme that will play a key role in deciding how Britain's local authorities meet new tough recycling targets over the next five years has been given away to...
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7 Sep 00
NHS trusts and health authorities are to be given a degree of choice in how they approach joint working on basic financial services.
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7 Sep 00
The Surrey town of Dorking faces two obstacles as it tries to make its name on the Internet.
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7 Sep 00
The Highways Agency is to spend £1.2bn on new technology to get the traffic on Britain's roads moving more smoothly.
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7 Sep 00
The government's hospital building programme is ill-considered and could create expensive white elephants, a King's Fund report said this week, in yet another condemnation of Private Finance...
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7 Sep 00
The Local Government Association joined this week's manifesto frenzy in an attempt to halt the government's drive to marginalise councils in the run-up to the General Election.
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7 Sep 00
Council tax should be replaced with a 'fair local income tax' according to pre-manifesto plans from the Liberal Democrats.
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7 Sep 00
The Conservatives' opening shots in the coming election campaign, featuring radical plans for change in education and local government, have been greeted with predictably swingeing criticism from...
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7 Sep 00
The public sector has a serious image problem which is discouraging young people from seeing it as a worthwhile career and creating a recruitment crisis, according to the chief executive of the King'...
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7 Sep 00
A teaching union claims hard-pressed schools are covering up the true extent of teacher shortages.
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31 Aug 00
Council social services departments' inability to cope with demand could plunge the NHS into another winter crisis, health authorities and trusts said this week.
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24 Aug 00
Civil service targets to increase the numbers of ethnic minority staff in Whitehall are unrealistic, inaccurate and disappointing, the chair of the Commission for Racial Equality has warned.
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27 Jul 00
Local government leaders are savouring a small but significant victory in their long-running turf war with Westminster over control of frontline services.
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20 Jul 00
The government is to widen its data access powers with plans to equip benefit investigators with overarching new rights to access people's bank accounts, pension plans even gas bills under a...
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20 Jul 00
Scottish local government workers are gearing up for a summer of industrial action after the collapse of pay talks with employers.
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13 Jul 00
The Audit Commission is considering a radical review of its fee structure and audit process so that small local authorities pay lower amounts.
28 Sep 00A supervision and surveillance scheme designed to curb the country's worst young offenders will do little to reduce youth crime, probation officers warned this week.
