A £250m contingency fund should be created by the Treasury to help councils facing unplanned costs and potential community tensions because of poor immigration monitoring, town hall leaders have...
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...
& 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
'Personalised public services' is the Brown government's latest Big Idea. But how are the ambitious plans for round-the-clock GP services, individual health budgets and one-to-one tutoring going to...
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
Former Scottish secretary Douglas Alexander apologised this week after an independent report delivered a damning verdict on the conduct of the Scottish elections, claiming that voters were treated as...
The new generation of Public Service Agreements are not old-style performance targets by another name, Andy Burnham insisted to the Treasury select committee this week.
Senior MPs this week criticised the government's flagship academy schools programme for failing to control costs, with almost two-thirds of the first buildings running over budget.
Council and social care leaders are warning that the government must use its forthcoming green paper on adult services funding to fundamentally rethink the system.
Ministers have moved swiftly to guarantee the future of a flagship regeneration programme after a government document wrongly suggested that it was under threat.
Stock transfers from councils to housing associations have helped create a two-tier workforce among staff employed by the same landlord, a union has claimed.
Local authorities must perform detailed needs assessments of elderly people going into care homes to help them get a fair deal, the Commission for Social Care Inspection insisted this week.
The new chancellor's first Pre-Budget Report forecast a temporary dip in revenue and slowed the growth in spending. Both of these pose risks for the government's grand plans for public services
Payment by results might help hospital managers and clinicians to understand their costs better, but it comes with significant costs of its own, the CIPFA health finance conference heard.
Primary care trusts should take patients' complaints into account when making commissioning decisions, especially those involving independent sector providers, the Healthcare Commission said this...
Louise Casey, the government's 'respect' czar, is leaving her post to head a review into ways of involving local communities in anti-crime initiatives.
