The long-running pay dispute at the Department for Work and Pensions could end this week after leaders of Whitehall's largest trade union endorsed a three-year deal, worth up to 15% for some staff.
Councils were given an early Christmas present this week, when they were told they would no longer be responsible for finding £3bn in schools' and police authority savings called for in the Gershon...
Town hall leaders are warning that the £1bn cash injection promised by Gordon Brown does nothing to tackle the underlying pressures on council tax bills, which could still soar in future years.
Incapacity benefit needs to be replaced with a new system of support that encourages people to return to the workforce, according to a centre-Left think-tank.
All children's services, from playgroups to prisons, are to be subject to a radical joint inspection regime under proposals announced by Ofsted this week.
Half of all crime reduction partnerships examined by the National Audit Office have been delayed by up to a year due to bureaucracy and might not achieve their 2002/05 targets.
Senior public sector figures have spelled out their disappointment with the government after this year's Queen's Speech failed to outline an overarching vision for the future of public services.
The Serious Fraud Office has stepped in to investigate allegations of irregularities in the award of building contracts at Queen's Medical Centre Nottingham University Hospital Trust.
Inspectors at the Health and Safety Executive have delivered an overwhelming vote of no confidence in their management board as it prepares to tighten the criteria for accident investigations.
The number of staff employed by Scottish local authorities has broken through the 250,000 barrier, provoking predictable claims of bureaucracy overload.
Policing in England will have a 'slimmed-down landscape' from next year with just three core bodies: the Police Standards Unit, an improvement agency and the Home Office.
The announcement of the provisional revenue support grant settlement has been postponed, leading to suggestions that councils could be in line for a funding increase.
The government has not delivered on a 2001 manifesto pledge to improve the standard of custodial accommodation and offender behaviour programmes for young adults, a new study claims.
Home Secretary David Blunkett continued his law and order crackdown this week, setting out plans to tackle antisocial behaviour across 50 areas blighted by louts and thugs.
The explicit efficiency targets for local government, set out in Sir Peter Gershon's review, are to be relaxed in favour of a more 'flexible' approach to meeting the overall £6.45bn figure, Public...
Home Secretary David Blunkett has rejected radical proposals to 'regionalise' the police service and grant district councils funding powers to 'buy' officers, Public Finance has learned.
Ministers are close to a final decision on a major cull of public sector inspectorates, but plans to merge up to 13 bodies into four is causing concern.
Northern Ireland's councils have reacted angrily to proposals to cut their number from 26 to just seven, as news emerged of the initial proposals of the Review of Public Administration.
Collective choice, co-payments and targeted procurement are likely to be at the heart of Labour's next manifesto, according to a former Cabinet minister close to Blairite thinking.
