Councils in Scotland have come under pressure to explain why they have not cut council tax bills when total reserves are as high as £839m, or 9% of expenditure.
Lawyers for the Public and Commercial Services union have identified a test-case individual who will front their legal challenge to the Department for Work and Pensions' controversial pay deal.
The concept of 'choice' must be extended across Britain's public services to ensure the government's radical reforms are successful, according to leading thinkers from the two main parties.
For the first time, 18 teams have been selected as finalists for the Public Servant of the Year awards. The teams will join 21 individuals at the final ceremony in London next month.
More than 100 defunct NHS sites across England are to be sold to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as part of a regeneration deal estimated to be worth £400m.
Public sector finance managers have given strong backing to the government's plans to relocate thousands of civil servants from London to the provinces as part of a multibillion pound efficiency
Social landlords need £8.4bn to be pumped into affordable housing during the next three years so they can build 140,000 new homes by 2008, the chancellor was told this week.
Communities Minister Margaret Curran has announced a £284m investment package for affordable housing in Scotland, a 7% increase on the figure for 2003/04.
Perplexed MPs took a senior Audit Commission manager to task on March 30 for failing to give a clear answer on whether the commission should take over housing association regulation from the Housing...
Council social services are better managed than they were seven years ago, but there remains a big gap between the best and worst, according to a 'hand-over' report on the sector published by the...
Government attempts to reduce poverty and inequality across England have had a limited impact so far, despite sustained investment, according to a report by the Social Exclusion Unit.
Gordon Brown threw down the gauntlet to the Conservatives this week when he used his Budget statement to promise substantial extra investment in key public services well into the next Parliament.
More than £1bn a year needs to be invested in the social housing sector to meet future demand and secure a long-term improvement in the housing market, the Treasury-commissioned review of UK housing...
Labour activists should make the most of the fact that Labour councils have set the lowest average council tax rises in the forthcoming local elections, the party's leadership has said.
The UK's revenue departments are to be merged, with the loss of 10,500 jobs in the next four years in what is likely to be the first round of efficiency cuts.
A London borough's hopes of meeting the government's decent homes target has hit a further setback after tenants overwhelmingly rejected a Private Finance Initiative scheme.
Unnecessary impositions and over-zealous regulation by government agencies will be the focus of attempts to eradicate the 'regulatory creep' burdening Britain's public sector, according to the man...
