Northern Ireland's five education and library boards have been given a year's stay of execution after ministers decided to delay the creation of their replacement Education and Skills Authority,...
In the early days of New Labour, the Private Finance Initiative was seen as the only game in town for funding major public sector projects, but the Metronet crisis could mean the game is up, writes...
Scottish ministers are to demand that unspent cash should be fully available to the Executive in the next budget round and not retained by the Treasury in London.
Alex Salmond's government might be 'in office, not in power'. But that is not holding the Scottish National Party back from launching a radical public sector shake-up. Iain Macwhirter reports from...
The Northern Ireland Assembly has resolved to introduce free personal care for elderly and disabled people, nine years after a royal commission recommended it.
The recent UK-wide elections have highlighted the fact that there is not one NHS but four. Noel Plumridge examines what binds the different health services and what sets them apart
The number of jobs expected to be lost in Northern Ireland's health trusts has doubled, the Department for Health, Social Services and Public Safety has told staff.
It no longer seems so much 'if' as 'when'. Bizarre, amazing, doomed call it what you will, but the Rev Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness look set to become first and deputy first ministers of...
Northern Ireland's 26 district councils have fixed their rates for 2007/08 the first to be based on properties' capital values as at January 2005 rather than nominal rental values.
A new multi-billion pound agency will take charge of housing and regeneration in England within the next two years, the government confirmed this week.
A heated row over the future of local government in Northern Ireland broke out after the composition of the seven proposed new Northern Ireland 'super-councils' was published by the Local Government...
The Department of Health will hold a summit next week with the leaders of frontline NHS staff in an attempt to win back clinicians' support for its reform programme.
Rumours of the PFI's death have been greatly exaggerated. With its lengthy inflexible contracts and high annual costs, its days were looking numbered in an era of choice. But then Gordon Brown came...
Government funding of a Loyalist museum in the Shankill area of Belfast has been criticised as 'irregular' in a report from the Northern Ireland Audit Office.
Northern Ireland's largest road scheme is the main element of an ambitious programme to regenerate the province's second city of Derry, secretary of state Peter Hain has announced.
It is just as well Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain did not expect a warm welcome for his November 22 announcement of a restructuring of the province's public sector based on the three-year...
Government plans to replace Northern Ireland's 26 district councils with seven 'super-councils' have been attacked by local parties for reinforcing sectarian divisions.
Further education has been a 'forgotten middle child'. But now Sir Andrew Foster's wide-ranging review could give the £5bn sector a new mission to get the nation ready for work. Joseph McHugh asks...
Permanent secretaries' pay will be linked to their success in meeting civil service diversity targets, Cabinet Office minister John Hutton announced this week.
