A new Welsh efficiency drive will foster innovation and collaboration in areas where not enough is being done, the minister leading the scheme has told Public Finance
A new Welsh efficiency drive will foster innovation and collaboration in areas where not enough is being done, the minister leading the scheme has told Public Finance
MPs have criticised the lack of prison facilities in North Wales and called on the Ministry of Justice to adopt a more flexible approach to prisons policy
Welsh Assembly Members have voted to hold a referendum on whether Wales should have full powers to legislate over devolved areas without input from Westminster.
A senior member of the Wales Audit Office executive team has been named as interim auditor general for Wales after the sudden resignation of Jeremy Colman last week
The Wales Audit Office was left with a vacancy at the top yesterday after its auditor general Jeremy Colman stepped down suddenly following concerns about his personal conduct
The Welsh Assembly Government is to commission an independent review of education funding as it seeks to meet the first minister’s pledge to increase investment in the sector
Social care services in Wales have shown consistent improvement over the past ten years, but this could turn to decline as the sector faces new problems
Replacing the Barnett Formula with a needs-based system would be ‘relatively straightforward’, according to the Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales
The public sector should have introduced a pay and recruitment freeze last year and must now curb final-salary pensions, the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce has claimed
Children’s mental health services in Wales have failed to improve sufficiently despite development funding and the introduction of staff in vital areas, a joint inspection has found
The Welsh Assembly Government’s 2010/11 budget plans fail to show how the government’s objectives will be met in ‘changed economic circumstances’, AMs have said
Giving the Welsh Assembly full law-making powers over the 20 devolved policy areas would substantially improve the current system, a landmark report has said
Finance directors face the ‘challenge of a lifetime’ in dealing with the public sector funding crisis, the Welsh Assembly Government’s permanent secretary has warned
Progress on reducing child poverty in Wales has been ‘inadequate’ and the economic climate should not be used as an excuse for shying away from the problem, the children’s commissioner for Wales has...
Jeremy Colman believes audit bodies should themselves be accountable. He tells Paul Dicken that, after an external review, the Wales Audit Office is in better shape to cope with recession
