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5 Apr 01
Local authorities are facing an administrative headache and a hefty bill after the government's decision to put back the local shire county elections and in all probability the general election...
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29 Mar 01
Many councils are not doing enough to provide their services electronically and could get left behind if they do not act soon, local government minister Beverley Hughes warned last week.
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29 Mar 01
The Improvement and Development Agency (Idea) has signed a ground-breaking deal to provide an e-procurement portal that could create one of the 'largest marketplaces in Europe'.
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29 Mar 01
A picture of departmental conflict and policy incoherence emerges in last week's report on waste management from the Commons' environment select committee. The result, it implies, is that local...
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22 Mar 01
The government is to abolish the present system of local authority capital controls in favour of proposals in the green paper on local government finance.
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22 Mar 01
The local government pay negotiations became deadlocked this week, with unions warning of an 'extremely serious situation' if employers fail to improve on their 3% pay offer.
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22 Mar 01
Most council environmental services in England have improved in recent years, according to the Audit Commission's latest performance indicators.
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21 Mar 01
Angus MacKay, the Scottish Finance and Local Government Minister, has called for the country's councils to do more to develop community planning.
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15 Mar 01
The London boroughs have blamed the excessive demands of London Mayor Ken Livingstone for an average 8.1% hike in council tax.
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15 Mar 01
The weather may have relented after what seems like the wettest winter since Noah, but Britain is ill-prepared for the next inundation. Its flood defences are still leaking like a sieve, according to...
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15 Mar 01
Postal voting could replace polling stations in rural areas as ministers battle to keep the May 3 English local elections on course despite the spread of foot and mouth disease.
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8 Mar 01
A new education funding system could be in place by next year after a decision to fast-track changes to the existing school finance mechanism.
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8 Mar 01
An Ofsted report published this week revealed that six first-round Education Action Zones had failed to raise educational standards in secondary schools and, apart from 'small-scale' activities,...
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8 Mar 01
Staff across the public sector could be wasting thousands of working hours surfing the Internet for pornography, booking holidays or even managing their stocks and shares on-line, an exclusive survey...
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8 Mar 01
Regional development agencies will get full financial flexibility from 2002/03, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced in the Budget this week.
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8 Mar 01
The Local Government Association has rapped councils for their lack of progress on race relations.
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1 Mar 01
The Treasury is to raid its coffers for around £137m in emergency aid for farmers as foot and mouth disease spreads across the country.
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1 Mar 01
A black and minority ethnic (BME) housing association this week emerged as the largest single beneficiary of the Housing Corporation's investment programme for 2001/02.
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1 Mar 01
Partnerships UK, the Treasury-owned body set up to oversee joint ventures between the public sector and the business community, is itself to become a public-private partnership.
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1 Mar 01
Londoners' major gripe with their councils' services is their complaints procedures, according to a new survey.
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22 Feb 01
The Local Government Association has called on European institutions to tackle accusations of 'top-down' decision-making by renegotiating relations with other tiers of government.
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22 Feb 01
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has given the clearest signal yet that if Labour wins a second term in government it will set up elected regional assemblies.
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22 Feb 01
The probation service must balance conflicting local and national demands on its resources if it is to improve its services, according to the Audit Commission.
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22 Feb 01
Bristol's Labour councillors may be dismayed after the city's residents shot their education spending plans to pieces last week in the first budget referendum to be held in a major city.
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22 Feb 01
Whitehall's senior mandarins are likely to face a barrage of criticism in the next few weeks from a report that slates their race relations record.
5 Apr 01Local authorities are facing an administrative headache and a hefty bill after the government's decision to put back the local shire county elections and in all probability the general election...
