Town hall leaders have published a manifesto for local government as part of a drive to exploit the growing debate over 'new localism' in the run-up to the next general election.
More than 100 defunct NHS sites across England are to be sold to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as part of a regeneration deal estimated to be worth £400m.
Public sector finance managers have given strong backing to the government's plans to relocate thousands of civil servants from London to the provinces as part of a multibillion pound efficiency
The Local Government Association has launched a review of the Improvement and Development Agency as part of its programme to scrutinise its central bodies.
British local government is not powerful enough to underpin a switch to a social insurance scheme for national health care, while Conservative Party plans for 'patient passports' to ease the burden...
The Conservative Party will go back to first principles and avoid the lure of quick-fix solutions to the council tax controversy, its new local government finance spokesman has told Public Finance .
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has told his party's spring conference that he is not scared to use the word 'redistribution' when describing his tax and spending plans.
Gordon Brown's pledge to prune Whitehall's army of Sir Humphreys and slash billions of pounds from the government's annual spending bill ensured that these issues dominated last week's post-Budget...
More than £1bn a year needs to be invested in the social housing sector to meet future demand and secure a long-term improvement in the housing market, the Treasury-commissioned review of UK housing...
Choice will play a central part in the next phase of public service reform, opening up services to greater influence from users, according to one of the prime minister's chief advisers.
The health service and EDS are to take their differences to mediation after it emerged that the IT outsourcing company was seeking compensation for the cancellation of its e-mail contract.
The stage is set for a showdown between ministers and town hall leaders after authorities defied government orders not to set council tax increases above 5% and issued warnings that budgets could not...
The prudential framework for local authority borrowing is about to have a major impact on Glasgow's regeneration, according to the city council's chief executive, George Black.
Pensioners are being urged to claim the council tax reductions they are entitled to as part of a government campaign to stem mounting opposition from older people.
One in five civil servants will face the sack unless they significantly boost their performance under reforms that sound the death knell for the career mandarin.
Chancellor Gordon Brown's review of the Private Finance Initiative should stipulate that the rules that are mandatory for NHS PFI disclosure should apply to the whole of the public sector, according...
The head of the consortium that will manage the government's £125m fund to help charities be more effective in public service delivery hopes to use some of the money to test the viability of long-...
Public service leaders are demanding a 'substantive' role in the Treasury's wide-ranging efficiency review amid mounting concerns that ministers will impose 'unrealistic' and 'unworkable' reforms on...
Normal political debate has pretty much been forgotten amid the tumult of the Hutton Inquiry report and the vote over university top-up tuition fees, but in recent days senior Labour figures have...
Storm clouds were gathering over local government pay this week, with unions set to lodge a 4% pay claim, despite warnings that employers are determined to keep to the Treasury's inflation-only limit...