All NHS acute and mental health services in England will be provided by foundation trusts within three years, the Healthcare Financial Management Association conference heard last week.
Proposals to fund public services through the planning system could frustrate efforts to build more affordable housing, social landlords warned this week.
Changes in Scotland's Best Value system will be overseen by Professor John Baillie, the newly appointed chair of the Accounts Commission, which is responsible for the audit of local government.
Campaigners have welcomed government plans to radically transform care and support for elderly and disabled people by extending the system of personalised payments.
The CBI has hit out at government mismanagement of public procurement, which it warns is threatening ministers' ambitious plans for reforming frontline services.
Local government minister John Healey has urged councils to look beyond the 'here and now' and face up to some of the long-term, deep-rooted problems that affect their communities.
Tenants should be given wide-ranging powers to scrutinise their landlords within the new regulatory system for housing associations and local authorities, according to a report.
Council leaders and ministers this week committed to a new relationship which moves closer to recognising central and local government as equal partners in service delivery.
Where next for the IPPR? Judy Hirst talks to its new co-directors about a more consensual style of politics and why two thinking heads are better than one
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has announced a 'major acceleration' of the programme that allows local authorities to hand over surplus or disused buildings to community organisations for a token...
Local authorities that back government plans to increase house building will receive £732m to fund better community services over the next three years.
Funding for social care services for people with learning difficulties will be transferred from the NHS to local authorities as part of a wider overhaul, the government has announced.
A statutory duty should be placed on councils that fail to respond to the challenge of climate change, experts said this week as they painted a gloomy picture of progress to date.
The government is to investigate the scale and nature of the private sector's role in delivering public services, as figures revealed that they now provide £44bn worth.
Senior backbench MPs are calling on ministers to introduce independent audits of public service quality to ensure it does not suffer from the 'stretching and highly ambitious' efficiency targets set...
Urban fire authorities this week warned that national 'resilience capability' could be diminished unless ministers agree to freeze changes which would cut £30m from their budgets.
Love it or loathe it, the PFI has been a part of the public sector for more than a decade. But with changes in government policies and in its accounting treatment, what future, if any, does it have...
When the Home Office accounts were disclaimed by the National Audit Office, it was symptomatic of a wider malaise. The only cure was a complete turnround in the way the department handled its...
