Local authorities are demanding a guarantee from Charles Clarke that the promised 4% funding increase for schools next year will not starve other vital services of cash.
Town hall leaders are increasingly confident that radical reform of the funding system is on the way, after ministers agreed to detailed research into the implications of potentially far-reaching...
Town hall leaders fear the government is pressing ahead too quickly with its reforms to children's services, after Education Secretary Charles Clarke revealed he wanted a Bill in next month's Queen's...
Pensioner and anti-council tax groups are to oppose the move led by Kent County Council to give elderly people a discount on the amount of tax they pay.
The British Medical Association this week urged the government to act against aggressive patients after a survey revealed one in three doctors had experienced violence in the past year.
Lift, the public-private partnership model developed by the NHS to meet the building needs of the primary care sector, also offers a useful procurement option for local government, the Office of the...
As launches go, the unveiling of the draft Office of the Deputy Prime Minister/Employers' Organisation pay and workforce strategy for councils was more Titanic than QEII .
Labour's controversial plan to overhaul the NHS has placed hospital trusts at high financial risk while police authorities, probation boards and local government are all blighted by poor internal...
Northern Ireland's Review of Public Administration, published this week, has described five options for how the province's public services can be provided in the future.
Social care is to get its own voice in Whitehall with the creation of a national director of social care, Health Secretary John Reid told social services chiefs this week.
Trade unions got their wish and delivered a bloody nose to ministers at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth last week on the issue of foundation hospitals.
The public's reluctance to approach pharmacists for medical advice could stymie government plans to give high-street chemists a greater role in patient care, the Consumers' Association said this week.
John Prescott's blueprint to improve councils' working practices has put a question mark over the value of the long-awaited Local Government Pay Commission report on the sector.
A member of the original Royal Commission on long-term care has said that the drive to raise care standards for the elderly should take precedence over efforts to secure total state funding.
Health service boards must begin to think strategically about the impact of soon-to-be-implemented changes, NHS England finance and investment director Richard Douglas told the annual CIPFA health...
Health Secretary John Reid announced £93m to fund three cardiac schemes this week in the latest tranche of the government's ten-year modernisation plan for heart services.
Public service unions are to harden their opposition to foundation hospitals, after the government gave notice it would ignore a motion condemning the policy passed by a clear majority at the Labour...