Back-to-work schemes should be overhauled to ensure they focus on the needs of people with social problems and those furthest from the job market, MPs have said.
The triple lock on state pensions needs to end as it will become “prohibitively expensive”, Institute of Fiscal Studies director Paul Johnson has argued.
Implementation of 40% spending cuts to council funding in next month’s Spending Review would deliver a “knockout blow” to many local services, according to analysis from the Local...
The Treasury has defended controversial proposals to further cut spending on tax credits, saying reforms introduced since 2010 are projected to save £15bn by 2016/17.
First minister Nicola Sturgeon has offered Scottish Government support for 270 Lanarkshire steelworkers who will lose their jobs in the wake of today’s announcement by the steelmaker Tata that...
The performance of the police service in England and Wales has worsened in the last year, according to the Inspectorate of Constabulary. Fewer forces are judged to be “good” and, for the...
A leading rail operator has called for the current franchise system to be scrapped on some lines and replaced with licensing regime that could raise money for taxpayers.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills should redirect £500m from university grant funding into further education and extend the student loan system to FE students, the Policy...
The planned shift to English Votes for English Laws highlights the need to review “unsatisfactory” arrangements for approving public spending across the UK, a committee of MPs has said.
NHS England has recruited Dr Donald Berwick, a former senior health official under Barack Obama in the United States, to help develop new models of care across the country.
Network Rail has agreed a plan to improve delivery of major infrastructure projects after a transport watchdog concluded it was in breach of its licence conditions due to cost increases in some...
The government’s plan to let councils in England keep 100% of business rates is set to herald a wide-ranging re-examination of Whitehall support to town halls, the local government minister has...
More than 200 frontline public sector organisations could be in “financial distress” by the end of the parliament due to planned funding cuts, an analysis by Deloitte and the think-tank...
Further details of plans to sell high-value council houses to fund the extension of Right to Buy to housing association tenants has been revealed in legislation introduced to parliament.
Three NHS leaders have been appointed to drive forward aspects of the Five Year Forward View, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens announced today.
The chief executive of NHS England has said the service should “call time” on the foundation trust pipeline, saying “we are frankly kidding ourselves” in believing trusts could ever meet the...
