The government's attempts to increase the number of successful adoptions by setting up a national register must not obscure the needs of children, the Association of Directors of Social Services...
Dame Helena Shovelton's annus horribilis came full circle this week when the government announced it would not re-employ her as chair of the Audit Commission.
Unions have given a lukewarm welcome to government plans for a £250m sweetener for teachers based in the Southeast who are priced out of jobs because of escalating property prices.
An unnamed district council has been fined £28,050 for more than 1,000 breaches of the Pensions Act in relation to information provided to local government pension scheme members.
The three government partnership directors who will help mastermind the takeover of the National Air Traffic Services by a public-private partnership have been named.
Public sector workers have emerged as the winners in a survey scrutinising the ethical investment policies of the 100 largest occupational pension schemes.
Local councils are being invited to bid for a share of £25m being put up by the government to extend the street warden scheme. Councils will have to match the central payment from their own budgets...
The government's relationship with the main public sector unions took another downward turn this week when the teaching union, the NASUWT, said plans to privatise education services were 'dubious'...
Councils and the police can now impose curfews on children as old as 15 if they deem them anti-social, following new laws that came into effect on August 1.
A report that criticises the first Private Finance Initiative hospital to be opened in England has been labelled a 'whitewash' by public service union Unison.
The head of the body representing Scotland's independent care homes is threatening to demand that local authorities are stripped of their elderly care responsibilities, blaming councils for the...
The government has announced the locations of the first 16 centres of vocational excellence which are designed to boost young people's skills in fields where there are job vacancies.
A private firm has angered unions by following its takeover of school support services in Bradford with an immediate warning to 1,000 former council employees to expect staff reductions.
The leader of Birmingham City Council fears ministers may have to impose a mayoral referendum on the city to sidestep continual opposition by councillors.
Fifteen local authorities have been asked to explain successive high increases in council tax, as ministers restated their readiness to impose some form of spending controls in future years.
Pilot schemes to test methods of electronic voting will be set up in time for the 2002 local elections in an effort to encourage disenchanted voters to re-engage with politics.
Public sector bodies in Scotland will have to undergo tougher audit assessments from the autumn, following the introduction of a new code of practice by the auditor general and the Accounts...
The government got up to its old spinning tricks this week when Education Secretary Estelle Morris re-announced the creation of 45,000 childcare places for deprived neighbourhoods.
