Informing the public is more than a duty, it's a challenge to make your audiences sit up and take notice. Wychavon council and the other winners of the Public Reporting and Accountability Awards have...
Ministers were this week accused of trying to sneak 'through the back door' a controversial decision over their child maintenance reforms after omitting it from a new Bill.
Some London councils are failing to support housing associations' development schemes, relying on neighbouring boroughs to house families on their waiting lists, a report claimed this week.
Former chancellor Kenneth Clarke has stood for the Tory leadership three times but his failure has not dampened his political activism, he tells Joseph McHugh
The incoming CIPFA president intends to apply the same drive and determination to his institute role as he has to his career and to his passion for orienteering
Is New Labour's modernisation agenda for public services anywhere near endgame? Tony Travers surveys the progress so far and asks whether a Brown government should slow down or speed up the pace of...
Men living in England and Wales' poorest wards suffer poor health and disability for 5.5 years longer on average than those in the richest wards, according to the Office for National Statistics.
It might be a brick too far to herald the return of the council house, but a Gordon Brown government will, it seems, recognise the need to provide more social housing, and be on the lookout for new...
Public sector housing bodies have responded positively to the Disability Discrimination Act and routinely upgrade homes to suit the needs of disabled people in contrast to private sector landlords...
A review of accounting procedures for housing associations looks set to drag on to the end of the year after landlords failed to agree on how to deal with shared ownership sales.
A major rethink is needed on the government's reform programme. Central to that is the concept of 'public value' and new ways of getting public sector workers on board. Brendan Barber outlines a...
Ambitions to regenerate the Thames Gateway area will fail unless costs are tackled and Whitehall departments and agencies co-operate, government auditors warned this week.
Gordon Brown has said he is not opposed to electoral reform if it keeps the constituency link. One idea is the alternative vote system, which is supported by ministers Gareth Thomas and James...
Premier-in-waiting Gordon Brown has promised a big shift in 'the way we govern'. So what will this mean in practice for the public sector? James Blitz predicts less spin and more focus on domestic...
It's the public services, stupid. As Ireland's voters prepare for a general election, the focus is on problems in the country's huge state sector. The rival parties all have their own solutions,...
Councils are gearing up to resume their role as significant house builders after senior Labour figures said they were vital to increasing the supply of new homes.
Central government is planning a drive to expand the amount of social housing. So where will this leave traditional housing associations? Caroline Shah looks at one option transferring the entire...
Dartford Borough Council plans to hold a local referendum to ask householders whether they want to switch from weekly to fortnightly rubbish collections, the first authority to do so.
Housing minister Yvette Cooper has dismissed peers' criticism of her incoming Home Improvement Packs as representing vested interests and failing to understand the environmental benefits of property...
Council engineers and surveyors have been out in force assessing the damage to buildings across Kent following last weekend's earthquake, which damaged 1,500 properties and left many families...
The Department for Constitutional Affairs is urging the Law Lords to avoid making registered social landlords and foster carers subject to the Human Rights Act, Public Finance has learned.
A council tenancy used to mean a home for life. But all that's set to change, as the government takes steps to break the link between social housing and welfare dependency.
