The government's drugs czar, Keith Hellawell, is to lose his job in the wake of new Home Secretary David Blunkett's takeover of responsibility for the fight against drugs.
Incoming ministers should show more trust in the qualities of the public sector and not attach themselves to the 'myth of the private sector as super-hero', a new policy document, Transforming...
Lambeth council in south London is to consider waiving multi-million pound compensation rights in an attempt to make a speedy withdrawal from its ill-fated housing benefit contract with outsourcing...
As we enter the final week of the election campaign there are two key questions: can William Hague succeed in his aim of getting the election focus firmly on the issue of Europe, and will it make any...
The Royal College of Nursing has welcomed the Liberal Democrats' manifesto promise to use higher taxes to recruit more nurses and give them a £1,000 pay rise.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
Crisis-ridden Hackney Council has launched a fraud investigation following the discovery of irregular cash transfers between bank accounts, Public Finance has learned.
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...
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...
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.
