The NHS has improved markedly over the past few years, but more attention needs to be paid to public health problems such as obesity, sexually transmitted diseases and especially mental health,...
The government is ploughing on with its city academy programme for inner-city schools, despite vociferous opposition and some embarrassing failures. Phil Revell finds out why
Housing associations and private developers will have to build eco-friendly homes to receive a share of more than £3.3bn in grants over the next two years.
Scotland's efficiency savings could have been £239m higher if the Executive had applied the equivalent targets set for Whitehall, Professor Arthur Midwinter, the Scottish Parliament's finance adviser...
Budget-holders in education are concerned that procurement targets will oblige them to axe their trusted suppliers. However, both sides of the equation will be involved in solving the efficiency...
Real food is back on the political menu, after TV chef Jamie Oliver shamed the government over junk meals in schools. But despite all the noise, is there enough will and cash to give every school...
The leader of Whitehall's latest professional body this week outlined his ambitious plan to improve working conditions for health sector managers, calling for talks with ministers over pay, pensions...
Nurses who withhold a comforting hand; schools that stop children playing outside; community hospitals that ban home-made cakes at a party. The risk-averse culture has gone far too far, argues Julia...
Everyone from the Lonely Planet tourist guides to think-tank boffins agree that Britain's city centres now beat anything on offer in Europe. What is responsible for this transformation, asks Will...
The government has pledged to help councils manage extra costs incurred by a decision to reverse reforms to the local government pension scheme, Public Finance has learned.
The chair of the Charity Commission turned down Rada for a career in social policy. But the theatre's loss has been the voluntary sector's gain, writes Vivienne Russell
Unison has called on Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt to take urgent steps to combat violence against staff, patients and visitors in mental health inpatient units.
Britain is the only major democracy whose ministries have no constitutional basis. This allows prime ministers to chop and change them at will, often in response to political power plays. It has to...
The general election brought home to the government the country's desire for a return to local democracy. The LGA calls for this to be made a reality and its chair, Sir Sandy Bruce-Lockhart,...
In a move the Conservatives themselves described as 'audacious', one of the party's youngest MPs has been given the daunting task of facing Chancellor Gordon Brown across the dispatch box.
The cost of clinical waste disposal by NHS hospitals in Scotland could be reduced by £1.3m if the waste was handled properly, Audit Scotland has claimed.
