Northern Ireland's Review of Public Administration, published this week, has described five options for how the province's public services can be provided in the future.
Ministers should scrap all national targets for secondary school pupils because they have now 'served their purpose', an influential committee of MPs reported this week.
Social care is to get its own voice in Whitehall with the creation of a national director of social care, Health Secretary John Reid told social services chiefs this week.
The government has rejected independent research commissioned by the National Union of Teachers suggesting that this year's schools' funding crisis has resulted in the loss of almost 9,000 teaching...
Local government leaders have called for long-term sustainable funding to ensure that the latest plans to crack down on antisocial behaviour are a success.
Councils are failing to drive down costs, improve productivity and provide greater customer satisfaction, local government minister Nick Raynsford told local authority chief executives this week.
Oxford City Council has been found guilty of maladministration for deducting council tax arrears from the wrong man after trying to trace a defaulter using only a telephone directory.
Audit Commission chair James Strachan has appointed Frances Done, the former chief executive of Manchester's 2002 Commonwealth Games, as the watchdog's new head of local government, housing and...
Former top Treasury mandarin Lucy de Groot, who until last month was Gordon Brown's director of public services, has said the government is confused about its own philosophy of 'new localism'.
The Local Government Association has denied rumours that its chief executive Sir Brian Briscoe is to leave and confirmed that he has signed a new contract to stay on at the organisation.
The capital's local authorities and post offices will grind to a halt as workers go on strike on October 16 to demand a £4,000 London weighting allowance.
Northern Ireland's water and sewerage services will not be privatised or converted into a 'not-for-dividend business', John Spellar, the province's acting regional development minister, has announced...
John Prescott's blueprint to improve councils' working practices has put a question mark over the value of the long-awaited Local Government Pay Commission report on the sector.
Chester-le-Street District Council, currently under heavy scrutiny by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, has confirmed it is investigating a potential breach of government outsourcing...
Public service unions are to harden their opposition to foundation hospitals, after the government gave notice it would ignore a motion condemning the policy passed by a clear majority at the Labour...
Local authorities are facing a major struggle to preserve housing investment programmes as new regional boards look to switch maximum funds to a single pot.
Labour's regeneration initiatives received a timely boost this week with the publication of a new Audit Commission report praising councils for improved policy selection and implementation.
Unions are warning of a growing campaign to undermine the local government deal on the two-tier workforce, as pressure mounts to expand it across the public sector at next week's Labour Party...
Health Secretary John Reid has warned that the government's avowed philosophy of 'new localism' does not mean that frontline institutions will be freed from the constraints of national policy.
