The government does not take the issue of fraud seriously and has failed to introduce even the most basic preventative measures, according to maverick MP Frank Field.
Social services are on the verge of collapse, despite the government's promise of a 6% increase in spending in each of the next three years, the King's Fund said this week.
The National Audit Office has warned that government departments risk losing out on the benefits of future Private Finance Initiative projects if they do not grasp the basics of refinancing.
The visibly deteriorating state of council housing is a political predicament that has haunted successive governments.
In Scotland, the issue of how to tackle an outstanding repair and investment...
CPA is too inflexible, IDA admits
The Comprehensive Performance Assessment is too inflexible, according to the acting executive director of the Improvement and Development Agency.
John O'Brien...
Business will not be forced to provide workers in public-private partnerships with the same terms and conditions as those in the public sector, the director-general of the CBI has warned.
The unions are to press again for a fair wages resolution in public-private partnerships following the promise of a review into the two-tier workforce last week. But the private sector has...
The public services unions angrily kicked open the 'door of discussion' of Labour's reform agenda that Prime Minister Tony Blair had left ajar at the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool this week.
Scottish Borders Council is downplaying reports that the Scottish Executive and Scottish Enterprise have backtracked over public funding for a £77m rail project that could help the area.
Local authorities should push ahead with rapid adoption of the controversial accounting rule FRS17 or face a separate standard that could unveil £2bn of pension fund liabilities across the UK,...
Treasury guidance used to judge the value for money of Private Finance Initiative schemes is to be reformed in a drive to ensure 'more robust' government spending decisions.
Local government minister Nick Raynsford faces new arguments over the government's code of practice on the two-tier workforce after the long-awaited draft was published this week.
The ground-breaking public-private partnership between Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire County Council was hanging in the balance this week after fears over the long-term future of one of the...
The Spending Review has confirmed what many expected: large increases in resources for many public services. The Budget had already told us how far the overall spending envelope would grow, and laid...
Westminster City Council this week granted the biggest-ever outsourcing contract in local government history but failed to ease staff fears that they could be relocated outside London as part of...
The introduction of a controversial accounting standard that could expose billions of pounds of pension fund liabilities in the public sector has been delayed, it was announced this week.
Home Secretary David Blunkett has laid out his vision of a Britain free from racial prejudice and described the country as an open nation 'enriched by immigration'.
GPs have urged the Department of Health to implement immediately proposals that would slash their paperwork and enable them to see another 100 patients each per year.
An attempt to replicate Scotland's proposed system of free care for elderly NHS patients across the rest of the UK is likely to end in failure, Derek Wanless has warned.