The head of the new social housing regulatory body talks to Neil Merrick about how he intends to fundamentally challenge the way that housing associations operate
Opposition politicians have accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown of 'reckless fiscal irresponsibility' after official figures showed economic growth at a standstill and a gloomy outlook for public...
As councils congratulate themselves on increasing household recycling rates, a House of Lords committee has highlighted a problem that could wreck the drive to cut down on landfill. Of Britain's...
The Local Government Association has welcomed the latest municipal waste figures, showing a decrease in landfill and an increase in recycling in England.
Recent migrants to Britain are twice as likely as other workers to receive less than the national minimum wage, with female workers 1.5 times as likely to be underpaid as their male counterparts,...
More than 600 members of the Public and Commercial Services union at the conciliation service Acas are balloting for industrial action in a dispute over pay. The vote, which runs until August 27,...
Voluntary organisations can get to people and places that other service providers struggle to reach. Or can they? The government thinks so but the public administration select committee is not so...
Action taken by local, regional and devolved administrations on climate change is encouraging, but efforts are hampered by contradictions in cross-government policy, MPs have said.
The Office for National Statistics has been forced to abandon its flagship Odyssey modernisation programme, admitting that planned changes to the national accounts and household surveys will take...
