Jo McCullagh goes where many others fear to tread docksides, lorry drivers' cafés and construction sites to hand out condoms, apples and safer sex literature. Her innovative efforts to...
Ken Hunter is a firefighter with a difference, as he also helps steer children and young offenders away from a life of car crime and arson. After 26 years in the fire service, he has just picked up...
Returning officers are calling for television advertisements to be aired in the run-up to the general election to show people how to use their postal votes.
Councils have to play a central part in the next government's delivery agenda but need to prove that they are up to the challenge, the chair of the Local Government Association said this week.
Finance Minister Tom McCabe has called for a reduction in the number of council chief executives and finance directors in Scotland as part of his plans to reform public services.
Local government procurement is being hobbled by 'naivety and lack of honesty' on the part of both purchasing authorities and private contractors, the Society of IT Management has warned.
Local government pensions are in a mess. A £30bn shortfall in retirement assets across town halls in England and Wales, revealed in a CIPFA study last week, is bad news enough.
In the run-up to the general election on May 5, the Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed that it is already investigating 39 separate cases of possible election fraud.
A fight has broken out in schools but the pupils are not to blame. Heads claim that they can't afford both the workload agreement and pay reforms. Teachers say this is just an excuse. Conor Ryan...
The new Wales Audit Office carries huge audit and regulatory responsibilities, but its first auditor general is more than ready for this wider role, he tells Joseph McHugh
Calls for a corporate manslaughter Act have intensified over the years after a series of man-made disasters. Now a draft Bill has been published that could make it much easier to prosecute public...
Gordon Brown's Budget produced a shock with its commitment to create four merged inspectorates covering the public sector. But will this brave new world lead only to greater confusion and upheaval...
Fines, controls, ever more parking zones. Are these sensible ways to cut traffic and pollution, and raise much-needed revenue? Or just an excuse to rip off beleaguered motorists? David Meilton...
Councils broadly welcomed the extension of the Building Schools for the Future investment programme to primaries. But they are concerned about how it will work and how much control they will retain
A government pledge to spend an extra £10m on preventing postal ballot fraud has been dismissed as a 'half measure' which will not stop voting malpractice at next month's general election.
Ministers have ignored requests for meetings with local authorities facing the threat of capping and there are 'no grounds for optimism' that the orders will be rescinded, Public Finance has been...
Social landlords are offering only qualified backing for Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's flagship scheme to extend home ownership, the National Housing Federation has warned.
Delays in handling complaints against councillors, which had led to criticism of the Standards Board for England, were caused mainly by the government's failings, senior MPs have ruled.
Transport white papers have become mere political adverts and will contain policies doomed to failure until ministers change their relationship with civil servants over reforms, a regulatory expert...
