Councils and other public service leaders rushed to unpick the substance of the government's forthcoming legislative plans as the prime minister broke with tradition and set out much of his programme.
Public sector pension funds are using their hefty financial clout to lobby for changes to the government's draft Climate Change Bill, claiming that ministers are not doing enough to cut CO2 emissions.
Elderly people in some areas of England are 160 times more likely to receive NHS continuing care than others, startling figures published on July 13 reveal.
Councils and their partners need to make clear who disgruntled citizens should complain to about jointly delivered services, the local government ombudsman said this week.
Town halls could be forced to scrap some bus services from 2008 because they face a multimillion pound deficit under Whitehall plans to extend free travel for pensioners.
Newly appointed local government minister John Healey has pledged to forge a 'new relationship' between central and local government and to devolve extensive powers to regional and local levels.
Labour has retained the presidency of Scotland's local government association, despite the loss of seats to the Scottish National Party in May's Holyrood elections.
Opponents of Britain's Private Finance Initiative ignore one rather vital fact it works. Not only does it do what it's meant to do, it does it so well that other countries are queuing up to learn...
Taking the politics out of the NHS sounds like an attractive idea. But an independent board would be bad for democracy and bad for our health, argue George Jones and John Stewart
It's been a challenging week for Team Gordon, as the new PM and his Cabinet strive to show who's in charge. Peter Riddell assesses what all the ministerial changes mean
Voluntary sector organisations are still not on a level playing field with other public service providers, despite central government's efforts, auditors said last week.
The British Medical Association has called on the new prime minister to listen to doctors' advice, as a poll found limited public support for Labour's NHS reforms.
Public bodies must slash the time it takes to provide services if the government is to become more responsive to citizens' needs, a minister admitted this week.
One in ten people in Britain are shut out of the labour market for reasons that are individual, complex and highly local. The solution is not David Freud's mega-contracts, but drastic devolution of...
The new prime minister is an intellectual heavyweight, with strong views of his own on public policy. So where does this leave Britain's burgeoning think-tank industry? Peter Wilby reports on the...
