The trail being blazed by Local Area Agreements will be crucial to the contents of the forthcoming white paper on councils, the local government minister revealed this week.
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has admitted that her department 'mishandled' its instruction to strategic health authorities last year, telling them rapidly to reorganise the provision and...
Scotland's new national transport agency will be responsible for a £3bn programme of investment including new rail and road links, Transport Minister Tavish Scott announced this week.
James Strachan is to leave the Audit Commission later this month following controversy over last month's Comprehensive Performance Assessment results, it has been announced.
England's councils met the government's ambitious target to 'e-enable' their main services by the end of 2005, according to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Audit Scotland has published new guidance on the issues and risks faced by public bodies in the latest stage of its efforts to modernise the scrutiny process.
Local authorities remain on course to meet their Gershon efficiency targets for 2005/06 with just three months of this financial year remaining, the latest analysis from the Office of the Deputy...
Private developers bidding for grant to build new homes have had difficulty demonstrating that their bids represented value for money, the Housing Corporation said this week.
An attempt by a London borough to transfer its homes to new landlords on a piecemeal basis has run into trouble after tenants on five estates voted against any change.
Proposals for neighbourhood bodies drawing inspiration from the French commune model may be outlined when the government publishes its local government white paper later this year, David Miliband has...
Public sector employers are three times more likely to offer flexible working practices than their private sector counterparts, according to independent figures.
The future of large NHS Private Finance Initiative schemes has been questioned after the Department of Health ordered a review of the biggest PFI deal to date.
Public sector managers have been urged to make a New Year's resolution to work towards a better future for mental health, one in which services are better integrated and people are supported in the...
Government proposals to reform incapacity benefit appear to have come full circle, with senior Whitehall sources claiming that this month's welfare green paper would build on the Department for Work...
In the first of a series of speeches outlining his vision of 'compassionate Conservatism', new Tory leader David Cameron pledged to take the government's market reforms in the NHS even further.
Northern Ireland's largest road scheme is the main element of an ambitious programme to regenerate the province's second city of Derry, secretary of state Peter Hain has announced.
Town and county hall leaders have accepted they need to work with the funding settlement announced last week but have appealed to ministers not to blame tax rises on high-spending councils.
