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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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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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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
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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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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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.
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15 Jul 99
The government is to offer financial incentives to keep 16 to 18-year-olds in education and training as part of a package to stem 'a lost generation' of youngsters.
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8 Jul 99
Local authorities may have to boost efforts to combat stress and bullying at work after two councils this week paid damages of more than £150,000 to ex-employees.
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8 Jul 99
Councillors are over-whelmingly white, male and middle-aged and they are putting off prospective candidates, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warned this week.
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8 Jul 99
New government measures to improve public health and save 300,000 lives in the next ten years will fail unless there is a 'massive shift' of funds to poor areas, the NHS Confederation said this week.
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8 Jul 99
A campaign by the Local Government Association to overhaul the voting system for local elections has resulted in the creation of a commission to consider the issue.
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1 Jul 99
Social Security Secretary Alistair Darling did little this week to dampen speculation that housing benefit faces abolition in a bid to cut down on massive levels of fraud.
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1 Jul 99
The Treasury will give financial backing to any Private Finance Initiative scheme that ends up on the public sector balance sheet because of new accounting rules, Public Finance has learned.
16 Sep 99Short-termism and vague targets set by councils are hampering innovative work on regeneration and economic development, the Audit Commission warned this week.
