Camden council has stepped up its campaign against record industry giants' illegal fly-posting by seeking an interim court order preventing companies from flouting the law while it awaits a landmark...
The Scottish Executive has again missed its targets for paying bills on time, leaving millions of pounds outstanding, according to figures disclosed this week.
Whitehall's chief statistician has called for greater autonomy from parliamentarians in the wake of accusations that ministers have too much control over the way civil service data is used.
The Audit Commission is piloting the creation of area profiles as a way of building a complete picture of frontline services and quality of life within a specific location.
The government last week launched a crackdown on so-called health tourism, unveiling plans to deny almost all NHS treatment to foreign visitors and failed asylum seekers.
Reverend Andrew McLellan, Scotland's chief inspector of prisons, has issued another scathing report on Peterhead prison, accusing it of failing to address the criticisms in his previous report.
Patricia Hewitt has unveiled plans for an equalities super-regulator to bring under one umbrella the existing bodies set up to tackle discrimination in its various forms.
Cuts to jobs and services are on the way unless the government abandons plans to cap authorities, ministers have been warned, as those in the firing line submitted last-ditch appeals against the...
Anti-mafia laws used in the US are to be copied in Northern Ireland to tackle extortion rackets in public sector building projects, the government has announced.
Prison Service staff regularly suffer from stress, anxiety and depression during the course of their work, leading to sickness absence rates higher than the national average, according to the...
Team spirit and cohesion were celebrated in this week's Public Finance Public Servants of the Year Awards even the individual winners drew attention to their importance. Editor Mike Thatcher...
Scottish ministers have promised swift action following the publication of two damning reports criticising serious social care, health and policing failures in the Borders region.
Labour and the Conservatives have fired the opening salvos in this year's local elections campaign, levelling allegations of high spending and town hall mismanagement at one other.
The Raynsford review of local government finance could amount to nothing with the current regime surviving in its present form, a senior civil servant has told MPs.
Some government departments are allowing billions of pounds a year to dribble away through fraud in the public sector because of 'appallingly lax controls', a senior MP warned this week.
A rapid expansion of private security patrols on housing estates has left the public confused over who is supposed to be guarding them and their property, according to a Joseph Rowntree Foundation...
Planners, police officers and local politicians alike need to have their skills honed at a new centre of excellence if the government's sustainable development targets are to be met.
Local authorities that defied government warnings to keep council tax increases to low single figures will be capped this year and an announcement confirming this is 'imminent', according to town...
The government is to spend £16m on building four specialist units to separate teenage girl prisoners from adults, Home Secretary David Blunkett has announced.