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2 Nov 00
Former deputy justice minister Angus MacKay was the big winner in the Scottish Cabinet reshuffle carried out by First Minister Henry McLeish this week.
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19 Oct 00
Best Value is a success so far and should promote a steady improvement in council services to the public, says the Audit Commission.
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19 Oct 00
A high-profile authority chief executive has warned that the advent of regional assemblies may lead to a dramatic down-sizing of local government.
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19 Oct 00
Local Government Association chair Sir Jeremy Beecham has launched a renewed defence of the public service ethos and the value of 'vigorous local democracy'.
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19 Oct 00
The government has beefed up the Local Government Modernisation Team with the appointment of eight new members this week.
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19 Oct 00
Ex-offenders should be treated as priority cases for housing rather than automatically excluded from council waiting lists, it was claimed this week.
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19 Oct 00
Efforts to minimise pressure on the health service this winter went up a gear this week as leading figures warned that the NHS faces a tough three months.
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19 Oct 00
The chair of the body set up to examine how contracts are awarded under Best Value has reassured local authorities they will not have new regulations forced on them.
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12 Oct 00
Local government needs to ditch its narrow-minded approach to partnerships, local government minister Hilary Armstrong warned this week.
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12 Oct 00
Audit Commission controller Andrew Foster this week called for a radical streamlining of NHS audit and inspection in order to drive out inefficiencies and duplication in the current system.
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12 Oct 00
Ministerial interference in next year's finance settlement is threatening to divide local government, with London boroughs accusing the government of trying to cheat them out of £49m to placate its...
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5 Oct 00
Health Secretary Alan Milburn ushered Best Value into the NHS last week, abandoning almost two decades of compulsory market testing in support services such as cleaning and catering.
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28 Sep 00
Local authorities are being urged to press ahead with setting up arm's-length housing management companies 18 months before they will be allowed to spend any extra money on their stock.
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28 Sep 00
A directly elected mayor for just 22,000 people is hardly what Tony Blair had in mind for his new system of political governance, but one of England's smallest boroughs is leading the mayoral race.
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28 Sep 00
Major repair programmes will be slashed and neighbourhood renewal schemes abandoned if the rent income raised by housing associations is seriously reduced, the government has been warned.
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28 Sep 00
The London Borough of Lambeth has been forced to shelve a £440m public-private partnership regeneration scheme after residents voted against it.
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28 Sep 00
More than one-third of housing association tenants want to move out of their current home, a Housing Corporation survey has revealed.
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28 Sep 00
A supervision and surveillance scheme designed to curb the country's worst young offenders will do little to reduce youth crime, probation officers warned this week.
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21 Sep 00
Housing association rents should not be kept artificially high so that registered social landlords can fund activities linked to neighbourhood renewal, housing minister Nick Raynsford warned this...
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21 Sep 00
Local authorities are gearing up for annual spending spats with schools after the government backed down on its threat for direct education funding in this week's finance green paper.
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14 Sep 00
The first seven councils to be assessed on Best Value criteria by Wendy Thomson's new local government inspectorate have passed with flying colours.
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14 Sep 00
Local authorities were trying to pick up the pieces of disrupted services as fuel began to trickle slowly back into garages and council depots after the government's ultimatum to petrol companies to...
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14 Sep 00
Local authorities have voiced fears that next week's Finance green paper will be nothing more than a damp squib with vague proposals designed to smooth tensions until after the General Election.
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14 Sep 00
Nearly three-quarters of London councils have altered their structures to take account of the move towards Cabinet-style decision-making set out in the Local Government Act.
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14 Sep 00
A £1.3m government-funded research programme that will play a key role in deciding how Britain's local authorities meet new tough recycling targets over the next five years has been given away to...
2 Nov 00Former deputy justice minister Angus MacKay was the big winner in the Scottish Cabinet reshuffle carried out by First Minister Henry McLeish this week.
