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19 Dec 02
Taxpayers may end up paying millions of pounds to deal with problems caused by abandoned waste sites because of poor costing by operators, says the National Audit Office.
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12 Dec 02
Britain's over-crowded prison system is close to breaking point, with inmates suffering 'degrading' conditions that could lead to legal challenges against the Prison Service, the sector's watchdog...
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5 Dec 02
Sir Jeremy Beecham has voiced doubts about the quality of some of the inspections carried out for the Comprehensive Performance Assessment, just one week before the results are unveiled.
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28 Nov 02
The two largest classroom teaching unions went on a one-day strike in London this week over their demand for an increased allowance to cover the cost of living in the capital.
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28 Nov 02
Offenders who fail to pay fines or compensation will have their assets seized and pay or benefits docked, it was announced this week
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21 Nov 02
Home Secretary David Blunkett this week played down claims that he is creating a national police force, despite unveiling centrally determined priorities for local forces.
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14 Nov 02
The Improvement and Development Agency has appointed the colourful and often controversial chief executive of Camden, Steve Bundred, as its new executive director.
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14 Nov 02
Tony Blair's big political ideas for the next 12 months have drawn immediate criticism following their unveiling at the state opening of Parliament this week.
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7 Nov 02
Sir Jeremy Beecham has made a last-ditch plea to the government to scrap plans to fine authorities deemed responsible for bed-blocking, in advance of next week's Queen's Speech.
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7 Nov 02
David Normington, permanent secretary to the Department for Education and Skills, has admitted he was 'ashamed' by the DfES's involvement in the Individual Learning Accounts debacle and revealed it...
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7 Nov 02
Police working in Scotland's capital are claiming an 'Edinburgh weighting' salary rise to help officers compete in the city's buoyant housing market.
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31 Oct 02
The effect of Home Secretary David Blunkett's latest attempt to combat Britain's rapidly growing prison population is 'a drop in the ocean' and should be accompanied by wholesale reform of the...
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24 Oct 02
The National Audit Office has praised the Home Office's victim support scheme for helping 1.4 million people every year.
But, in a report published on October 23, it regrets that the rate at which...
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17 Oct 02
Londoners could face a huge rise in council tax next year to pay for Mayor Ken Livingstone's spending plans, after the capital's police and fire services said they needed a rise of £35 per household...
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17 Oct 02
Scotland's First Minister Jack McConnell was fighting this week to distance himself from a constituency funding scandal that threatens to mar his term of office.
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10 Oct 02
A row over which section of government will pick up the tab for the impending firefighters' strike is looming, with councils fearing that they could again be left to bear the costs.
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10 Oct 02
Only months after a damning report on management practices at Corby Borough Council, independent inspectors have again blasted the authority for 'weak' and 'ineffective' oversight of contracts...
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10 Oct 02
The salaries of hundreds of thousands of NHS staff must be moved closer to those of teachers and police officers or they will leave the service, health unions warned this week.
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3 Oct 02
Karen Day reports on the important issues discussed at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool
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26 Sep 02
Home Secretary David Blunkett has pledged to put more than 1,000 community support officers (CSOs) on the beat within months.
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26 Sep 02
Estelle Morris's political prospects had been looking so promising. Popular with teachers and the public alike, it seemed a certainty that she would be a long-standing and well-liked education...
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26 Sep 02
Motorists caught persistently trying to evade paying London Mayor Ken Livingstone's £5-a-day congestion charge will have their cars clamped and impounded in a tough 'three strikes and your car is out...
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19 Sep 02
The hit squad sent in to turn around the Criminal Records Bureau is to examine the role of both the Home Office and outsourcing firm Capita in the crisis over criminal checks, the home secretary said...
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12 Sep 02
The Home Office has parachuted a hit squad into the crisis-hit Criminal Records Bureau amid warnings that the delays in criminal checks could last into next year.
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12 Sep 02
Labour's affordable housing policy for key workers has ignited a row between London's councils and the Metropolitan Police.
19 Dec 02Taxpayers may end up paying millions of pounds to deal with problems caused by abandoned waste sites because of poor costing by operators, says the National Audit Office.
