The Flexible New Deal back-to-work schemes will continue to focus on people who have been out of work for a long time despite rising unemployment, the employment minister has told MPs
The British Council, which promotes English language and culture across the globe, has been criticised for a reform programme that is harming services, staff morale and income
NHS organisations were struggling to assess the impact of new funding arrangements this week, as the long-delayed primary care trust allocations and operating framework were finally published
MSPs on an influential parliamentary committee have hit out at the ‘excessive bonuses’ and pay-offs for public body chiefs at a time when frontline staff were entitled only to inflation-...
The NHS must ‘do efficiency like never before’ to cope with the coming funding squeeze, the Department of Health’s director general of NHS finance, performance and operations has...
The government’s work-focused anti-poverty drive could be derailed by rising unemployment as the economy worsens, a group of social policy experts have warned
A drastic overhaul of the welfare state to increase the conditions attached to benefits and personalise services must avoid harsh sanctions and include safeguards for vulnerable people, experts and...
The independent body set up to examine the future of devolution is to investigate the possibility of giving the Scottish Government powers to borrow as well as control over certain taxes
Money from efficiency savings will be ‘recycled’ into civil servants’ pay as part of a deal with the Public and Commercial Services union to call off strikes originally set for this...
Unions have slammed government proposals to sell off a string of public agencies and assets as ‘reckless’, while the Treasury admitted this week that the poor state of the economy could...
This summer’s standard assessment tests fiasco was one in a long line of outsourcing disasters. But it provides a route map for future partnerships, says Andrew Rigby
Credit unions could take over the running of the troubled Social Fund from Jobcentre Plus under measures being considered for next year’s Welfare Reform Bill
The government has announced measures to boost social enterprises, as research shows third sector organisations have won public sector contracts worth almost £16m in the past six months