Decades of inefficient spending on computing systems by the Metropolitan Police has meant opportunities to cut crime in London have been missed, a report said today.
Police and crime commissioners should be given additional powers, including the ability for sack local prison governors and probation service bosses, a think-tank has said.
Plans to introduce a payment-by-results system into probation services risk ‘backfiring’ as the model could penalise successful providers, the Social Market Foundation warned today.
Local authority spending in England will have fallen back close to 2007/08 levels this year, according to figures from CIPFA and the Department for Communities and Local Government.
MPs have called for responsibility for forensic science services to be removed from the current minister who has come under unusually strong attack in a select committee report.
It is too easy for elected police and crime commissioners to remove chief constables from office, MPs warned today as they called for better scrutiny of the process
The Cabinet Office has ordered a government-wide review of contracts held by G4S and Serco after an audit found that the Ministry of Justice had been billed for millions of pounds worth of electronic...
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has backtracked on plans to remove the choice of solicitor from defendants on legal aid. The move was expected to cut the £220m from the legal aid bill as part of...
Education and health emerged as relative winners from today's Spending Review, with the chancellor pledging an overhaul of the school funding system and reaffirming the government’s commitment to the...
Public sector employment in the UK continues to decline, falling by 22,000 to 5.7 million over the first three months of the year, official figures show.
Senior officers in Scotland’s newly centralised national police force have angered council leaders by suggesting that the police merger could form a template for getting rid of many local authorities.
The government today confirmed plans to radically shrink the probation service and provide long-term supervision of all released prisoners, with services provided mainly by the private and voluntary...
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has announced a £290.8m investment boost for housing plus plans to shift funds from colleges and police to make up for central budget cuts.
The police could become more efficient and effective by looking at how other public services have reorganised themselves, new chief inspector Tom Winsor said today.
The June Spending Review is going to slice Whitehall’s funding cake so thinly that departments will be left fighting over the crumbs. So how are public services meant to cope, asks Tony Travers
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has pledged to stop judicial reviews into government decisions being used as ‘a cheap delaying tactic’ to hold up planning applications and policy changes.
Ministers today began consulting on a radical transformation of the legal aid system, including restricting access, slashing fees and introducing a competitive market for criminal cases.
Government mistakes contributed to the very low turnout in last November’s police and crime commissioner polls and ‘must not be repeated’, the Electoral Commission has found.
The four ‘whole place’ Community Budget pilots in England show that integrated spending could lead to cheaper and better services, the National Audit Office said today.
Last November’s elections for police and crime commissioners ‘failed both candidates and voters alike’ due to government mismanagement of the polls, the Electoral Reform Society has said.