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4 Nov 99
As political pledges go, there are harder ones.
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21 Oct 99
Local government employers and their recognised trades unions signed a partnership agreement this week guaranteeing greater consultation with employees and their representatives throughout the Best...
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21 Oct 99
Local health schemes, such as the development of diabetes care or minor injuries units, face the axe as a result of the government's change of direction on funding.
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21 Oct 99
Winning money for new recruits from the crime-fighting fund could be conditional on police authorities signing up to the new national communications project.
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14 Oct 99
Hilary Armstrong this week refused to rule out further local government reorganisation in England under New Labour.
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30 Sep 99
Civil service unions are set to agree a ground-breaking 'partnership agreement' with the Cabinet Office and Treasury which offers guarantees of consultation on management changes in return for...
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16 Sep 99
A senior local government finance official in Scotland has suggested that millions of pounds in community charge debts should be written off.
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16 Sep 99
Scotland's new auditor general wants water authorities to lose the freedom to appoint their own auditors.
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16 Sep 99
Short-termism and vague targets set by councils are hampering innovative work on regeneration and economic development, the Audit Commission warned this week.
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16 Sep 99
Council rents could be thrown into turmoil by the introduction of resource accounting, housing finance officers have been warned.
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16 Sep 99
Housing could lose out to other local authority services once all council capital allocations are thrown into a single pot, according to an expert on housing finance.
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9 Sep 99
Local authority leaders have welcomed government plans to remove the stigma surrounding social and council housing.
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9 Sep 99
The Isle of Wight and Devon county councils both came under fire over their social services departments in reports published this week.
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9 Sep 99
A new standardised service for testing the satisfaction of tenants living in council and housing association properties was launched this week by the National Housing Federation.
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9 Sep 99
Northern Ireland health officials have recommended that a new £75m hospital, most probably financed with private cash, should replace two hospitals that won plaudits for their care of victims of the...
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2 Sep 99
Hilary Armstrong will rule out, for the time being, directly elected chambers for the newly formed regional development agencies (RDAs). This reflects the prime minister's view on the issue.
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2 Sep 99
Local government minister Hilary Armstrong has announced two new business-oriented appointments to the Audit Commission.
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26 Aug 99
Teachers' unions in Scotland are set to reject a pay offer worth nearly 15% over three years.
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12 Aug 99
Council leaders in Burnley are in urgent talks with the government over how to clear their housing debt ahead of the proposed transfer of the authority's entire stock to a housing association.
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12 Aug 99
The Housing Corporation has apologised to five housing associations for not warning them that they were to be publicly criticised over the size of their rent increases.
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12 Aug 99
In another age, there were people known as Kremlinologists. These experts would be wheeled out on British television and radio to discuss the significance of every minor change in personnel made to...
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22 Jul 99
Liverpool's local education authority is being pushed into privatising most of its services without being allowed to consider the alternatives, ministers were told this week.
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22 Jul 99
A central government crackdown that will allow greater ministerial intervention into failing schools, councils and police authorities was formally outlined this week.
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22 Jul 99
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has confirmed that local authorities will be able to introduce congestion charges, with the revenue ring-fenced for local transport schemes.
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15 Jul 99
In the normal world, a deficit is a deficit. But, in the world of NHS finance, such simple rules do not apply.
4 Nov 99As political pledges go, there are harder ones.
