A police authority has pointed to problems with the way local government finance legislation is framed after the government imposed a cap on its budget.
Cases of public sector fraud and data manipulation are set to increase over the coming months as government spending cuts put more pressure on managers to meet performance targets, experts have warned
The police service needs to ‘radically rethink’ the way it provides back-office functions if it is to rise to the challenge posed by looming funding cuts, MPs have said
Report after report has slammed the overuse of custodial sentences, yet the justice secretary plans to build more jails. So what is standing in the way of change, asks David Williams
More support must be provided to children sleeping rough in Britain. Not only would this alleviate suffering, it would also reduce the long-term costs to the public purse, argues Emilie Smeaton
It’s supposed to be lighter touch but it is certainly tougher. The Audit Commission’s first area assessments were revealed this week – and put up on the Oneplace website for everyone to see. David...
Adults who had behavioural problems as children go on to commit 80% of all crime in the UK, according to a report by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
The UK public sector is being cheated out of an estimated £27bn a year, and must tackle the problem to safeguard jobs and services, a leading fraud expert has said
Prison sentences shorter than 12 months should be scrapped to address the serious issue of overcrowding in the country’s jails, the Prison Governors Association has urged
Local government leaders have urged ministers to give councils a new ‘power of general competence’ as a pioneering mutual insurance scheme went into provisional liquidation this week
Whatever happened to that brave new political dawn? Things really did get better but, as New Labour gathers for its last conference before the election, the public couldn’t be less grateful. Demos’s...
The Audit Commission is urging councils to do more to fight fraud, warning that hundreds of millions of pounds are being lost each year due to false benefit claims and tax avoidance
