The National Audit Office is calling on Welsh NHS trusts to speed up the sale of surplus assets after inspectors found they took on average 50% longer than their English counterparts.
The Department of Health should adopt a more proactive role when the National Institute for Clinical Excellence issues recommendations on drugs or treatments, MPs said this week.
Labour has retained control of the Association of London Government, following a decision to divide representation of the capital's hung councils evenly between the three major parties.
Forty per cent of local authorities have not drawn up an anti-racism strategy, the Audit Commission has revealed just days before a government deadline expired.
Is it ministerial refusal to bow to pressure to change the face of public sector benefits? A surprise affirmation of unions' power to influence policy? Or a deliberately vague document that hides a...
Local authorities in Wales have a poor record on employing senior female staff and people from ethnic minorities, while service standards still show huge disparities, according to a compendium of...
Council tax bills are to soar by an inflation-busting 8.1% on average, reflecting widespread fears among authorities that their budgets are being stretched to the limit.
The Association of Police Authorities fears that the Home Office's latest initiative to reduce crime in deprived areas could be undermined by elevating national police priorities at the expense of...
A Commons' committee this week condemned the 'appalling state' of Britain's parks and open spaces and called for a revision of planning policies to overcome 'institutional obstacles' to improvements...
English councils face the prospect of double-digit rises in council tax to fund police services after claims that David Blunkett's national policing plan is incompatible with local forces'...
Tenants will be able to transfer their local authority homes to 'community mutual' housing associations, enabling them to manage and collectively own their properties, under plans drawn up by the...
The Local Government Association has backed David Blunkett's overhaul of the asylum system in the face of grassroots criticism over plans for induction centres in rural areas.
Local Government Secretary Stephen Byers this week revealed that he was prepared to review the controversial local government categorisation system announced in the recent white paper.
Boxing fans denied the prospect of a Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson match-up would have been well advised to turn their attentions to Cardiff last weekend, as the government and unions squared up to each...
Stephen Byers' April deadline for implementing changes to the Best Value regime will almost certainly be missed as the review he set up remains mired in stalemate.
The Association of Police Authorities has attacked the government's Police Reform Bill for undermining local policing and threatening 'meaningful modernisation'.
More than a quarter of secondary schools seeking a new head teacher in the past academic year were forced to re-advertise, according to figures from Education Data Surveys.
Council leaders have accused Mayor Ken Livingstone of 'attempting to bleed Londoners dry' with his suggested 35% increase in the Greater London Authority precept.
Labour is facing a major crisis over homelessness after figures showed the number of families living in bed and breakfast accommodation has risen by nearly a quarter in just 12 months.
The Welsh Assembly's finance minister has defended in resolute terms the decision to 'rebadge' Best Value and dilute the role of external inspection in the principality.
