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6 Sep 01
The government launched its blueprint for the future of secondary schools this week, granting ministers reserve powers to curtail failing schools while promising high performers new freedoms.
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6 Sep 01
An independent review commissioned by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) has proposed increasing chief executives' pay by up to 18%.
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23 Aug 01
The Audit Commission looks set to deliver councils' demands for a lighter-touch inspection regime for successful authorities.
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23 Aug 01
The Local Government Association has hit back at claims that education authorities do not do enough to help schools in their battle against drug use.
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23 Aug 01
The long-running dispute between private care homeowners and local authorities in Scotland has ended, following an agreement to set up an independent review group to examine funding.
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23 Aug 01
Prime Minister Tony Blair's e-government targets are looking increasingly shaky as councils struggle to put together plans and industry experts call for a more realistic timescale.
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23 Aug 01
The government's £180bn transport plan will have no effect in tackling the gridlock on many of Britain's roads, according to a leading business think-tank.
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23 Aug 01
There is one way to deal with an unfavourable inspection, and that is to not publish it. Steve Brown explains how some local authorities are managing to escape being named and shamed
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23 Aug 01
The government is to extend its commitment to closed-circuit TV cameras as a crime-fighting tool by investing £79m in 250 new surveillance schemes.
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9 Aug 01
The government's attempts to increase the number of successful adoptions by setting up a national register must not obscure the needs of children, the Association of Directors of Social Services...
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9 Aug 01
Dame Helena Shovelton's annus horribilis came full circle this week when the government announced it would not re-employ her as chair of the Audit Commission.
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9 Aug 01
Unions have given a lukewarm welcome to government plans for a £250m sweetener for teachers based in the Southeast who are priced out of jobs because of escalating property prices.
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9 Aug 01
An unnamed district council has been fined £28,050 for more than 1,000 breaches of the Pensions Act in relation to information provided to local government pension scheme members.
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9 Aug 01
The three government partnership directors who will help mastermind the takeover of the National Air Traffic Services by a public-private partnership have been named.
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9 Aug 01
Public sector workers have emerged as the winners in a survey scrutinising the ethical investment policies of the 100 largest occupational pension schemes.
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9 Aug 01
Tenants living in social housing could be invited to become part home-owners under plans being drawn up by the government.
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9 Aug 01
The number of people sleeping rough has fallen by almost two thirds over the past three years, according to figures released this week.
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2 Aug 01
Local councils are being invited to bid for a share of £25m being put up by the government to extend the street warden scheme. Councils will have to match the central payment from their own budgets...
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2 Aug 01
The government's relationship with the main public sector unions took another downward turn this week when the teaching union, the NASUWT, said plans to privatise education services were 'dubious'...
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2 Aug 01
Councils and the police can now impose curfews on children as old as 15 if they deem them anti-social, following new laws that came into effect on August 1.
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2 Aug 01
A report that criticises the first Private Finance Initiative hospital to be opened in England has been labelled a 'whitewash' by public service union Unison.
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2 Aug 01
The head of the body representing Scotland's independent care homes is threatening to demand that local authorities are stripped of their elderly care responsibilities, blaming councils for the...
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2 Aug 01
The government has announced the locations of the first 16 centres of vocational excellence which are designed to boost young people's skills in fields where there are job vacancies.
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2 Aug 01
The Audit Commission is introducing 'a lighter touch' system for auditing 10,000 parish, town and community councils in England and Wales.
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2 Aug 01
A private firm has angered unions by following its takeover of school support services in Bradford with an immediate warning to 1,000 former council employees to expect staff reductions.
6 Sep 01The government launched its blueprint for the future of secondary schools this week, granting ministers reserve powers to curtail failing schools while promising high performers new freedoms.
