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17 May 01
A leaked document from the Institute for Public Policy Research on the future relationship between public services and private contractors may foreshadow a total reorganisation of health, education...
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10 May 01
Ideological differences between the main political parties on how to improve public services emerged this week as the general election campaign finally got under way.
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12 Apr 01
Westminster City Council is planning to set up its own team of 'enforcers' to tackle the 'Ibiza-style yob culture' said to be blighting the West End of London.
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29 Mar 01
The government has set aside more than £111m to tackle street crime and domestic violence across the country.
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8 Mar 01
Liverpool City Council will once again set the country's highest council tax, despite freezing tax levels for a third successive year.
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8 Mar 01
The Local Government Association has rapped councils for their lack of progress on race relations.
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8 Mar 01
The Scots have often thought of the English as ignorant and soon they may be right. Next year, Scots will have the legal right to know a lot more than the English about what their government is doing...
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22 Feb 01
The probation service must balance conflicting local and national demands on its resources if it is to improve its services, according to the Audit Commission.
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15 Feb 01
London's fire authority has agreed in principle to loan Transport for London £15m to help it meet a potential budget shortfall later this year.
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15 Feb 01
Crisis-ridden Hackney Council has launched a fraud investigation following the discovery of irregular cash transfers between bank accounts, Public Finance has learned.
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25 Jan 01
According to the Home Office, the UK has a proud tradition of providing a safe haven for 'genuine' asylum seekers.
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25 Jan 01
London Mayor Ken Livingstone faces a showdown with the Greater London Assembly over his controversial budget after public clashes with members this week. Livingstone stood by his guns as he presented...
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25 Jan 01
Housing associations which raise substantial amounts of private investment must never forget their role as public sector bodies, their regulator warned this week. In his first major speech to the...
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4 Jan 01
Police authorities are warning of a tight year ahead despite the seemingly generous 10% funding increase announced in November
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7 Dec 00
London local authorities could be forced to levy higher council taxes to finance Mayor Ken Livingstone's £60m plans to boost the Metropolitan Police.
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30 Nov 00
Public services in rural areas, including education, social care, transport and post offices, face an annual audit to ensure they are meeting minimum performance targets.
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19 Oct 00
Ex-offenders should be treated as priority cases for housing rather than automatically excluded from council waiting lists, it was claimed this week.
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12 Oct 00
Local government needs to ditch its narrow-minded approach to partnerships, local government minister Hilary Armstrong warned this week.
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12 Oct 00
Home Secretary Jack Straw has distanced himself from a report which calls for the merger of the Commission for Racial Equality, the Disability Rights Commission and the Equal Opportunities Commission.
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28 Sep 00
A supervision and surveillance scheme designed to curb the country's worst young offenders will do little to reduce youth crime, probation officers warned this week.
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14 Sep 00
Local authorities were trying to pick up the pieces of disrupted services as fuel began to trickle slowly back into garages and council depots after the government's ultimatum to petrol companies to...
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7 Sep 00
The public sector has a serious image problem which is discouraging young people from seeing it as a worthwhile career and creating a recruitment crisis, according to the chief executive of the King'...
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7 Sep 00
Wiltshire this week claimed to be on course to open the country's first custom-built joint communications centre for all three emergency services.
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7 Sep 00
Prime Minister Tony Blair has asked the Social Exclusion Unit to work with other government departments to cut rates of reoffending by ex-prisoners.
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7 Sep 00
The Highways Agency is to spend £1.2bn on new technology to get the traffic on Britain's roads moving more smoothly.
17 May 01A leaked document from the Institute for Public Policy Research on the future relationship between public services and private contractors may foreshadow a total reorganisation of health, education...
