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27 Jan 00
The Audit Commission should have its own House of Commons select committee in order to give the public sector watchdog's reports more weight, it was proposed this week.
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27 Jan 00
Gordon Brown has huge room for manoeuvre between tax cuts, spending increases and debt repayment, according to the annual unofficial guide to the chancellor's budget options published this week by...
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27 Jan 00
A national intelligence unit set up by the government to attack organised benefit fraud is to combine the knowledge of the Inland Revenue, police and immigration authorities.
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27 Jan 00
National park authorities are angry over the government's failure to fund their Best Value audit costs.
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27 Jan 00
The public sector has failed to get behind the New Deal in the same way as business, Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett said this week.
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20 Jan 00
Councils are to be given financial incentives to encourage them to detect housing benefit fraudsters.
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20 Jan 00
Effective community strategies will be at the heart of achieving Best Value in housing, local authorities were told this week.
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20 Jan 00
Labour's political reform of local government faces its strongest grassroots opposition yet with elected members of a London council threatening unlawful action.
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13 Jan 00
Whether the outbreak of flu sweeping Britain is an epidemic is a moot point. Statistically, it isn't. The official figures for reported cases are little more than for January last year.
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13 Jan 00
English National Parks this week warned that the disappointing financial settlement for 2000/01 could delay essential conservation projects and hamper its ability to respond to government priorities...
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13 Jan 00
The Department of Health has signalled a cautious start to its latest modernisation initiative, confirming that only 15 primary care trusts will be formed this year. Thirteen PCTs will be launched on...
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13 Jan 00
A local authority insisted this week that it had taken steps to reduce stress among employees after paying a record £203,000 to a former warden at a site for gypsies.
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13 Jan 00
Police forces in England and Wales could lose 300 officers as a result of a Treasury decision not to allow the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service to claim back their...
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13 Jan 00
The chairman of an independent inquiry looking at the pattern of the school year has criticised the present system as 'medieval' and warned that 'the status quo is not an option'.
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6 Jan 00
Many so-called regeneration projects are, in effect, schemes to help manage the irreversible decline of neighbourhoods caused by low demand for social housing, according a study commissioned by the...
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6 Jan 00
The Treasury wants members of its public services directorate to shadow head teachers, NHS executives and senior local government officials to establish a better grasp of government spending...
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16 Dec 99
Statutory guidance for implementing Best Value was published for all local authorities this week.
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16 Dec 99
Local authorities will have to bear an increasing amount of the cost of Best Value inspection, which could rise to more than £50m a year.
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16 Dec 99
Acute shortages of social housing and the unwillingness of some councils to provide accommodation for ex-prisoners are adding to the likelihood of people reoffending after they leave prison, says a...
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16 Dec 99
Scottish Homes is being turned into an agency of the Scottish Executive in a move to bring together the rights of tenants living in council and housing association properties.
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16 Dec 99
Local government does not have a single black finance director, the Employers' Organisation has found.
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16 Dec 99
Schools minister Estelle Morris has conceded that the government is creating and promoting a market for the private sector to take over the running of failing schools.
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9 Dec 99
Trading standards departments need to work more closely with each other and with the Office of Fair Trading, according to separate reports from the Audit Commission and the National Audit Office.
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9 Dec 99
Social housing rents would soar beyond the means of most tenants if they were based on the market value of properties, says a new survey.
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2 Dec 99
League tables could be introduced across the criminal justice system after a critical National Audit Office study found up to £84m could be saved by eliminating waste and spreading good practice.
27 Jan 00The Audit Commission should have its own House of Commons select committee in order to give the public sector watchdog's reports more weight, it was proposed this week.
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