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
Last month, the government approved nine new unitary authorities. There is one problem though its powers to do this are languishing in a Bill before Parliament, and so one council has challenged...
Should citizens have a direct say in the way councils spend their money? George Jones and John Stewart explore the pros and cons of participatory budgeting an idea whose time might have come
The government has made slow progress against its target to clear a backlog of 450,000 asylum seekers' case files despite a five-year plan introduced last summer, the chief executive of the Border...
The government has stated that it remains committed to reducing carbon emissions despite speculation that it is set to scrap an award-winning, council-driven scheme that encourages greater use of...
Residents' satisfaction with services and value for money should be the yardsticks against which local authorities are measured when Comprehensive Area Assessments are introduced in 2009, according...
Do Whitehall figures understate the socioeconomic impact of immigration? More precise local-level monitoring and checks on outward migration will give an answer, the agencies involved say
Serious doubts have been cast over government plans for 3 million new homes by 2020 after inspectors backed a more modest increase in house-building in Southeast England.
Local government and health unions have edged closer to pay deals that would breach the Treasury's 2% limit but this week's illegal strikes by prison officers have highlighted the public sector's...
English cities could raise more than £10bn in extra finance if they were allowed to raise a supplementary business rate, according to research by Centre for Cities.
'Save-as-you-throw' waste collection schemes will not be exploited by local authorities as a way of generating extra cash, council leaders claimed last week.
There has been one gaping hole in Labour's devolution success: the English regions. RDAs and non-elected assemblies have not lived up to expectations and the new PM is looking to give more powers to...
One of the Local Government Pension Scheme's biggest investment managers was this week accused of a potential conflict of interest over a £360,000 donation to the Conservative Party.
The scaling down of Public Service Agreements has been heralded as emblematic of a less centralist approach to performance management. But details of the new delivery agreements suggest otherwise
New Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain has thrown down the gauntlet in a green paper designed to get the long-term unemployed into jobs. But, as Mark Conrad reports, there are some tricky battles...
Local authority pension schemes have attacked many of the UK's biggest firms for not disclosing adequate information about the work of their audit committees.
Scotland's public sector watchdog has criticised the NHS and councils over a lack of information about the costs of providing care for people with long-term conditions.
Northern Ireland's Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety is to clamp down on the fraudulent use of its health service by Irish Republic residents.
