Social services across the country are heading for meltdown, Unison warned this week after a report revealed social workers as the lowest-paid professional group in local government.
Images of Royal Navy warships intercepting people-traffickers in the Mediterranean and televised bulk deportations of rejected refugees in RAF transport planes are bound to trigger a reaction,...
The British Red Cross has accused the government of ignoring its concerns over plans to accommodate asylum seekers in three out-of-town centres, which the charity believes will condemn refugees to an...
Councils hoping to establish a better system for funding education authorities have failed to endorse a new model for redistributing the available money.
Local government minister Nick Raynsford is adamant that Labour's electronic voting initiatives will induce a long-term improvement in electoral turnouts, despite a new report that raises question...
High-performing NHS hospitals will be released from the shackles of direct Whitehall control to give them an incentive to strive for excellence, Health Secretary Alan Milburn has promised.
Education Secretary Estelle Morris stepped into the crisis at the Criminal Records Bureau this week, granting local education authorities access to interim criminal checks to cut the delays in...
The NHS could save millions of pounds each year and promote better health by playing a more proactive role in local communities, a King's Fund report says this week.
The future outline of English regional government was laid out on May 9 when Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and Local Government Secretary Stephen Byers launched the regions white paper.
The new chief inspector of English schools this week promised teachers 'evolution, not revolution' in inspection, but warned that they will be subject to closer scrutiny than ever in the pursuit of...
The teaching unions' campaign for a 35-hour working week was dealt a blow on May 8 when the School Teachers' Review Body refused to impose a cap on working hours.
A £90m Private Finance Initiative scheme for schools in Newcastle was this week heralded as 'the future of local service provision in the region', after a historic agreement extended workers'...
Further education colleges claim to have lost at least £1.4m as a direct result of the government's sudden decision last November to wind up a scheme designed to encourage lifelong learning.
The announcement of a general election in the Irish Republic has been marked by a radical manifesto proposal from the ruling Fianna Fail party to combine major infrastructural investment with off-...
Schools in England's most crime-ridden areas are being offered their own personal police officers as part of the government's latest initiative to cut down on truancy and anti-social behaviour.
The Criminal Records Bureau has promised to rectify its 'appalling' service standards after apologising to nearly 100 local authorities that had complained bitterly of an 'administrative fiasco'.
Senior backbencher Edward Leigh has slated the government for failing to develop systems for measuring the success of its e-government programme two years after pledging to do so.
The health secretary has warned nurses that the salary increases expected following the restructuring of the NHS pay system will 'not be a something-for-nothing arrangement'.
College lecturers and principals buried their differences over pay this week when staff from more than 420 sixth form and further education colleges lobbied the government for more money.
Doug McAvoy has warned ministers not to use teaching assistants as 'cheap labour' to fill staff shortages, just days before a long-awaited report on teachers' workloads is released.
