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...
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.
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.
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.
Housing associations are being urged to become broader neighbourhood businesses and improve the quality of life for tenants, in the light of the findings of a new survey.
The chair of London's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, Barbara Cassani, has warned ministers she will not shirk from 'speaking up' if the project gets bogged down by political wrangling and...
The Audit Commission has launched a broadside against the government's profusion of nationally set targets for local services, warning that they can distort priorities and lead to 'perverse...
The Liberal Democrats go into their conference at Brighton next week hoping for a boost from having either won or taken second place in the Brent East by-election, which was due to take place on 18...
The NHS, councils and the private sector must co-operate more fully in order to reduce the 'intolerable' level of delays in discharging elderly people from hospital, MPs said this week.