Housing associations have been warned to expect even closer scrutiny of their costs as the Housing Corporation embarks on light-touch regulation for some landlords.
Whitehall's senior managers need to take drastic action to improve the rewards for top civil servants if they want to attract high-calibre applicants from the private sector.
A new tier of 'super-teachers' benefiting from financial incentives and specialist training should be created to teach at the most challenging schools, according to an influential committee of MPs.
Local government's pension scheme moved up the political agenda this week when Britain's biggest union, Unison, threatened to strike over changes to retirement plans.
Ministers have launched a drive to tackle joblessness and social exclusion in the same week that a £100m fund was announced to boost the economies of northern English regions.
London council leaders are calling for a more regional analysis of patterns of poverty to ensure that the government resources intended to tackle its accompanying problems are properly targeted.
The governing councils of three of the six main accountancy institutes have agreed 'in principle' to a merger that could create a new body of more than 200,000 members.
Regeneration minister Lord Rooker this week urged councils to work with the neighbourhood renewal agenda, after MPs said an atmosphere of 'mistrust and tension' was frustrating progress.
'Gross exaggeration and political criticism' has led the public to believe that only half of NHS staff are directly involved in patient care, while the real figure is 84%, Britain's biggest union has...
Scottish Water remains less efficient than the privatised companies in England and Wales, despite progress over the past two years, MSPs have been told.
As councils prepare for ministerial pronouncements on the implementation of the Gershon agenda, Unison, Britain's biggest union, has expressed fears that the target of £6.5bn of savings by 2008 could...
Local authorities believe Best Value is achieving significant improvements to services but there is still widespread dissatisfaction with the accompanying inspection regime, according to new research.
Audit Commission chief executive Steve Bundred believes CIPFA's proposed merger would help restore public confidence in the profession following a series of scandals.
Councils have made widespread use of measures introduced by the Department for Work and Pensions to simplify housing benefit and improve anti-fraud measures.
Chancellor Gordon Brown could be on a collision course with his own civil servants over possible modifications to performance-related pay deals, described by unions this week as 'radical and crude'.
Vulnerable older people will be able to access benefits and services through a single point of contact under a 'quiet revolution' unveiled by the government this week.
Trades Union Congress leader Brendan Barber has urged ministers to consider alternatives to slashing council workers' pension pots before proceeding with an overhaul of town hall retirement schemes...
Northern Ireland's eight-month-old pay dispute looks set to linger on, following the rejection of a pay offer by the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (Nipsa).
Opposition to the Treasury's proposed cull of civil service staff will intensify at the Trades Union Congress's annual conference in Brighton next month, motions to the event indicate.
Social landlords that provide temporary accommodation have been assured that housing benefit will not be replaced with a new allowance paid directly to the tenant.