Civil servants who used artificial intelligence for routine administrative tasks freed up the equivalent of two working weeks a year, a government trial has shown.
Pandemic-era contracts for unsuitable personal protective equipment cost the government £1.4bn, of which £762m is unlikely to ever be recovered, according to an interim report commissioned by...
The government will face difficult trade-offs if it attempts to protect schools and colleges from pending education cuts, with some areas being “squeezed out entirely”, a leading think-tank has...
The government is delaying publication of its child poverty strategy until the autumn as it considers scrapping the controversial two-child benefit cap.
The Public and Commercial Services Union will hold a national ballot on strike action by mid-September if there is no progress on its demands for pay and job security.
The financial benefits generated by the last Labour government’s Sure Start centres were more than double the amount of the programme’s costs, according to a leading think-tank.
The struggle faced by domestic abuse survivors to access local support has been seriously underestimated by the government, according to a critical new report.
The leaders of failing NHS trusts could see their pay docked by £15,000 as part of a government drive to use senior salaries to improve performance across the health sector.
More than 4,000 public and private sector workers will be trained in crisis management every year as part of a major drive by the government to strengthen resilience across UK communities.
Two-thirds of complex and strategically significant government projects have not been properly evaluated to learn lessons and hold ministers accountable for their delivery, a task force review...
The latest borrowing figures show the “clear risk” run by the government in adhering to its fiscal rules despite the uncertainty of official forecasts, analysts have warned.
The unsustainable rise in health spending could be ended and save the UK £21bn a year if new approaches to NHS reform are adopted, a leading think-tank claims.
The previous government’s drive to boost dental care across England has “comprehensively failed” and resulted in fewer new patients seeing an NHS dentist, according to a highly critical report from...
Government plans to cut disability benefits could leave local authority social care services and the NHS facing extra costs of £1.2bn, a think-tank has warned.
A negotiated deal with the US is the best way to secure economic stability in the wake of tariffs announced by President Donald Trump, the government has said.
