Prime minister David Cameron has today said the government is delivering on pre-election pledges across housing, childcare and education as he announced the creation of a new public sector...
Nine in ten nurses have said they would not have gone into the profession without the bursaries the government plans to scrap in 2017, a Unison survey has found.
Chancellor George Osborne has struck devolution deals with Birmingham and Liverpool city regions, giving the areas control over infrastructure investment, transport and skills in return for the...
A round-up of facts and figures from the November 2015 edition of Public Finance, looking at the living wage, apprenticeships versus degrees, the productivity puzzle and Brexit opinions
The government is to press ahead with reforms to trade union laws in order to end what ministers called the “endless” threat of strike action in public services from a single vote.
Councils are to be rated each year on the success of their efforts to keep young people in education, employment and training under a new government initiative, skills minister Nick Boles has...
Gary Porter, the new Conservative chair of the Local Government Association, today called for responsibility for training and skills to be devolved to councils.
Services for young people not in employment, education or training will be at risk by the end of the decade unless the government works with local authorities to reach a new funding deal, ministers...
Amy Armstrong describes how organisations can foster a culture of compassion to help managers support employees with dignity and care when they have to cope with bereavement, critical illness or...
With continuing tight budgets and deficit reduction policies the only certainty for the public sector, the pressure is on to deliver savings while improving services. Increased collaboration can cut...
The National Infrastructure Plan is the £466bn pipeline that underpins the Treasury’s growth strategy. It enjoys bipartisan political support but something is missing. Does the...
Costly failures such as the government’s botched award of the West Coast mainline franchise will continue unless there is an ‘honest appraisal’ of the skills gaps in the civil...
Chancellor George Osborne has pledged to devolve skills funding to combined authorities in the Midlands as part of a 15-year plan to make the region ‘an engine for growth’.
Valerie Pierce suggests ways to take the weight off your shoulders when the competing demands of the job pile up and conflicting priorities threaten your sense of perspective – and the morale of
your...
