Social care provision could be disrupted next year and social workers' pay stopped if a dispute over registration is not resolved quickly, social care minister Stephen Ladyman has told Public...
The Conservatives would scrap both Best Value and the Comprehensive Performance Assessment system for councils, but have reached no decision on what they would put in their place.
The newly elected senior executive of the Public and Commercial Services union is to meet next week to plan what it promises will be a 'hard-hitting and long-term campaign' to challenge the...
The assertion that the Labour government has presided over a huge rise in the number of back-office administrative staff is a myth, according to a leading think-tank.
The saga of Westminster's missing residents was drawing to a close this week as the Office for National Statistics prepared to admit that it had underestimated the authority's population by almost 10...
Former bank chief executive Sir Peter Burt is to head the four-member team that will carry out Scotland's independent review of local government finance, the Executive has announced.
Local authorities will continue to play an important part in education despite government moves to give schools greater control over their finances, Education Secretary Charles Clarke insisted this...
Employers and unions are on the brink of ending the long-running local government pay dispute after one union backed the package on offer and councils indicated their broad support.
Government plans to strip councils of most of their education responsibilities will rupture relations between Whitehall and county hall, the Local Government Association's new chair has warned.
A national education funding quango would be a 'retrograde step' for the sector, which must retain local flexibilities in determining how schools receive and spend cash, according to the incoming...
Scottish local authorities have called on ministers to agree to a budget of £9.3bn to fund basic services over the next year, according to proposals submitted in advance of the Spending Review.
Up to 11,000 civil service posts could be slashed following this week's overhaul of benefits and pensions processing at the Department for Work and Pensions a third of the job cuts targeted by the...
Last week's row over which party would offer patients genuine choice of where and when they are treated in hospital left NHS managers bemused. Few believe the mantra of choice is the key to...
The accounts of seven of Northern Ireland's 17 departments and major public bodies have been qualified for 2002/03 in the second year of resource accounting.
Council budgets for 2005/06 will be thrown into turmoil next week when the Office for National Statistics finally accepts that its 2001 Census was flawed.
Primary care organisations are timid and lack the strategic vision to make the most of the new doctors' contract, according to GPs' leader John Chisholm.
Communities may take it on themselves to choose which providers clean their streets or empty their bins under a vision of public service delivery set out by the local government minister this week.
Unison maintained its official support for Labour this week in the face of heightened hostility from members, and despite its leaders' private anger at the government's last-minute withdrawal from a...
English local authorities collected an extra £15m in council tax last year, but the rate of improvement slowed, leading to claims from private sector analysts that the government has adopted a '...
