The Blairite era of public service reform was seemingly declared dead at this year's Labour Party conference, held in Bournemouth on September 24 27, as the language of choice and markets was...
Social landlords must quickly decide their unique selling points to compete in the increasingly complex house-building market, the new head of the Housing Corporation has said.
A single body should replace the 'overcrowded landscape' of organisations that audit, inspect and regulate public services in Scotland, an independent review has concluded.
Plans by the Scottish government to freeze council tax and cut business rates will cost more than £1.3bn over the next three years, according to a leading public finance commentator and former...
All nationally set targets should be scrapped under a new covenant between central and local government, the Liberal Democrat annual conference in Brighton agreed this week.
It was inevitable that Professor Martin Cave's recommendation that all providers of social housing should come under a single regulator would fail to please everybody.
The role of shadowing Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has been split between two MSPs in the shadow Cabinet appointed this week by the new Labour leader, Wendy Alexander.
The grumblings from public sector trade unions are growing louder as Gordon Brown prepares for his first Labour Party conference as prime minister next week. But the strike threats over the pay rise...
Social landlords must help to build a national consensus over the need for more house building by raising environmental standards on new estates, housing minister Yvette Cooper said this week.
'Hidden communities' of immigrants could be overlooked in forthcoming government grant settlements to local authorities, putting service provision at risk, urban councils have warned.
Councils are being urged to begin candid discussions with their residents about the imminent possibility of cuts in social care services following next month's Comprehensive Spending Review.
No wonder the King's Fund had to take it upon themselves to commission Sir Derek Wanless's review of progress against his 2002 recommendations on funding the NHS.
Public servants could co-ordinate a fresh wave of strikes to coincide with the Queen's Speech, as opposition to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's 2% pay cap intensified following heated exchanges at the...
The local government balance of funding issue is 'irrelevant' and it would be best if all the money were raised centrally and distributed to councils, Sir Peter Burt has told leading revenue...
Gordon Brown and David Cameron might make out they are miles apart when it comes to education policies. But former No 10 adviser Conor Ryan finds plenty of common ground
It seemed a good idea to some at the time but now support for a Planning Gain Supplement is waning. Tim Williams explains why, and suggests alternatives
Six years on from 9/11, the UK's anti-terrorism strategy is undergoing a major rethink, with a big emphasis on prevention. Philip Johnston asks whether the newly reorganised Home Office has finally...
& nothing gained. Or so say the growing army of private equity investors in public services and assets. Paul Gosling explores the pros and cons of such partnerships for the public sector
The Comprehensive Spending Review offers the government the chance to grasp the nettle of railway investment and finally set out a long-term transport strategy. It won't come a moment too soon
