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25 Nov 99
The influential Performance and Innovation Unit (PIU) at the Cabinet Office is to investigate which public services can be delivered electronically and to examine the respective roles of both the...
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25 Nov 99
The National Association of Head Teachers has accused local education authorities of undermining school self-management and creating a dependency culture because of the way they distribute grants to...
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25 Nov 99
Housing maintenance was this week placed ahead of long-term management improvements when local authorities were given an extra £67m to spend on council house repairs next year.
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18 Nov 99
The chief secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Smith, is to create a series of Service Delivery Agreements spanning the whole of government, he reveals in this week's Public Finance .
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18 Nov 99
The government will put local government political reorganisation on the fast track next week when it publishes the bill that will pave the way for directly elected mayors.
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18 Nov 99
Two senior government ministers have set out to find a cure for the plague of form-filling and local government is due to be one of the chief beneficiaries.
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18 Nov 99
In just over a month, Scotland will have its first auditor general.
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18 Nov 99
An improvement agency covering the whole of the public sector in Scotland could be set up, following the publication next month of a report by the Best Value Taskforce.
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18 Nov 99
Find out what the people think, and pay attention: that's the message the Audit Commission is trying to get across to public bodies.
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18 Nov 99
The Local Government Association has accused education minister Estelle Morris of 'scaremongering' after she warned that a further 15 local authorities might have their services privatised in a drive...
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18 Nov 99
The government's crackdown on fraud in the National Health Service started in earnest this week with new powers for the NHS Tribunal to disqualify practitioners who have committed fraud.
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18 Nov 99
The chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality has lambasted councils for their 'shameful' race relations record.
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18 Nov 99
The new team to promote the Private Finance Initiative will help councils overcome any skill shortages that may stop them pressing ahead with schemes, finance directors have been told.
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18 Nov 99
Housing associations in London have been accused of 'ghettoising the poor' by allocating most of their homes to the unemployed.
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11 Nov 99
The message from Liverpool this week was that the city of Derek Hatton, the Militant Tendency and local government anarchy is finally dead.
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11 Nov 99
A major boost to the Private Finance Initiative in housing came this week with the government's announcement of four PFI schemes, totalling £185m, for the refurbishment of council houses.
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11 Nov 99
Scottish council leaders have called for a fundamental review of performance indicators (PIs) after the Accounts Commission issued its latest set of criteria this week.
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11 Nov 99
The rateable values of properties in Scotland are set to rise by 13% while in England the increase could be 22%, a survey of work on next year's revaluation has shown.
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11 Nov 99
A simplification of the statutory capital controls framework for local authorities is needed, according to CIPFA.
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11 Nov 99
Welsh health authorities and trusts face another year of deep cuts in services, despite receiving an extra £14m from the National Assembly.
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4 Nov 99
As political pledges go, there are harder ones.
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4 Nov 99
The NHS will be spared the rigid Best Value regime imposed on local government and will focus on back-room support rather than clinical services.
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4 Nov 99
Only a small number of primary care trusts (PCTs) may be formed next year, following the British Medical Association's insistence that the new bodies should receive support from at least two-thirds...
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21 Oct 99
Local government employers and their recognised trades unions signed a partnership agreement this week guaranteeing greater consultation with employees and their representatives throughout the Best...
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21 Oct 99
Local health schemes, such as the development of diabetes care or minor injuries units, face the axe as a result of the government's change of direction on funding.
25 Nov 99The influential Performance and Innovation Unit (PIU) at the Cabinet Office is to investigate which public services can be delivered electronically and to examine the respective roles of both the...
