A damning report from a Commons committee has called for radical reforms of the social work profession after finding that training regimes were inadequate
A single Whitehall department has run up a bill of more than £570m - more than a fifth of its resource budget - on consultants, temporary staff and professional services in just one year
Former Audit Commission chair Sir David Cooksey has been appointed to chair UK Financial Investments, the body that manages the taxpayers’ stake in the nationalised banks
The government’s £3m campaign to cut knife crime has so far failed to reduce the number of offences, figures produced by the Home Office on July 21 showed
A report on social mobility by former Cabinet minister Alan Milburn, published on July 21, has said that access to top professions such as medicine and the law is increasingly closed off to all but...
Equality and Human Rights Commission chair Trevor Phillips has come under renewed fire as the National Audit Office refused to sign off the body’s accounts
Michael O’Higgins has been reappointed for a second three-year term as chair of the Audit Commission by Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham
With mass manufacturing redundancies back
on the agenda, there needs to be a permanent task force to deal with the economic shocks. David Bailey, Caroline Chapain and Stephen Hall report
Public bodies charged with carrying out crucial policies must challenge the government if they believe the tasks they have been set are impossible, MPs have said.
Housing associations are concerned they might be forced to cut services for vulnerable tenants after the government refused to guarantee that rents will not fall next year.
The National Audit Office has issued a health warning about the Department for Work and Pensions’ accounts, citing fraud and error that has cost the taxpayer an estimated £2.7bn.
A Lords inquiry has issued the latest in a series of official reports calling for the scrapping of the controversial 30-year-old funding mechanism for the UK nations. But replacing it will not be easy
Improvements to transport links between England and Wales are being held up by a lack of co-operation between central government and councils, MPs have said.
UK Financial Investments is meant to be looking after the taxpayers’ massive stake in the country’s failed banks. But concerns are mounting about the Treasury agency’s ‘hands off’ approach. Paul...
Experts have warned that adding defence spending to the politically sensitive areas to be spared from cuts would require more than 16% to be slashed from other Whitehall budgets over three years.
