& it's the way that you do it. And that's the problem when it comes to putting policies such as healthy eating into practice. Phil Swann identifies the obstacles
An ageing population presents a series of issues that must be addressed now, if millions of people are to have a decent old age. Rebecca George looks at the challenges ahead
A council that was at the centre of a row over a redundancy and retirement package for its chief executive has been criticised for a lack of openness caused by 'unduly close' relationships between...
Ministers have moved swiftly to guarantee the future of a flagship regeneration programme after a government document wrongly suggested that it was under threat.
Local Government and Communities Secretary Hazel Blears is under pressure to sign up to an 'accord' to eradicate child poverty, after Chancellor Alistair Darling's Comprehensive Spending Review...
Ministers should not force the Jobcentre Plus agency into further job cuts or they risk undermining progress in helping people off benefits and into work, backbench MPs warned this week.
The Scottish government plans to fund an increasing number of public sector projects through a bond issue scheme instead of the Private Finance Initiative, Finance Secretary John Swinney told MSPs.
Town hall leaders are warning of cuts to services and jobs after the government's long-awaited Comprehensive Spending Review and Pre-Budget Report this week gave them a meagre 0.9% annual funding...
The Comprehensive Spending Review is imminent but Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andy Burnham still has some juggling to do not least to find the funding for the PM's new plans for public services...
Social landlords must quickly decide their unique selling points to compete in the increasingly complex house-building market, the new head of the Housing Corporation has said.
Social landlords must help to build a national consensus over the need for more house building by raising environmental standards on new estates, housing minister Yvette Cooper said this week.
It was inevitable that Professor Martin Cave's recommendation that all providers of social housing should come under a single regulator would fail to please everybody.
Scotland's spending on waste management will need to rise substantially to £580m if it is to have any chance of meeting European Union landfill targets, Audit Scotland has found.
One-sixth of students at the UK's top 13 universities are drawn from just 100, mostly fee-paying, schools, according to latest research from the Sutton Trust.
The role of shadowing Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has been split between two MSPs in the shadow Cabinet appointed this week by the new Labour leader, Wendy Alexander.
Social landlords and private developers will need to meet tougher standards and cut costs to gain part of the £8bn available through the Housing Corporation's next national affordable housing...
Inept handling of the single payment scheme of grants left farmers in a financially precarious position, the Commons Public Accounts Committee has said.
The Scottish government wants to increase the pace of change in the public sector but there will be no reorganisation of local authorities, Finance Minister John Swinney said this week.
& nothing gained. Or so say the growing army of private equity investors in public services and assets. Paul Gosling explores the pros and cons of such partnerships for the public sector
