The right to buy should be phased out as council and housing association tenants are encouraged to gain a financial stake in their home, a report suggested this week.
For all its words about devolution of control, the government effectively tightened its grip on education in the Spending Review, outlining a new blueprint for secondary schools that will explicitly...
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...
Local authorities are in line for an average increase of 4.2% in central grant over the next three years, prompting accusations that local services are being pushed to the back of the spending queue.
Union leaders have branded as a 'disgrace' Tony Blair's refusal to intervene in the local government pay dispute as the first national strike by council workers in 23 years looms next week.
'Sometimes the civil service is very efficient. Within five minutes of a secretary of state going, you have your redundancy papers,' says Dan Corry, the former and now infamous special adviser to...
GP practices are facing 'dire' recruitment problems and are struggling to achieve the government's modernisation agenda, according to British Medical Association GP leader Dr John Chisholm.
County councils could lose up to £800m as a result of proposed reforms to the distribution of the Standard Spending Assessment unveiled by the government on July 5.
The leader of Redbridge council in London has pledged to stop a new racecourse being built in the area. Plans for the multi-million pound track at Fairlop Waters are well advanced, but newly elected...
Dan Corry, the former special adviser to local government secretary Stephen Byers, is to take over as executive director of the New Local Government Network.
Just one in four local authorities believes that it will be granted greater financial freedoms as a result of the Comprehensive Performance Assessment framework, research has revealed.
It is highly unlikely that a Civil Service Bill would seek to cap the number of special advisers in government, the new head of the civil service has said.
Keith Hellawell, the government's former 'drugs czar', has resigned from his role as a part-time government adviser over plans to downgrade the classification of cannabis.
Relations between central and local government need to be radically transformed and much of Whitehall's power relinquished to town halls, Iain Duncan Smith has told local government leaders.
The government's controversial Private Finance Initiative will be scrutinised in a Parliamentary report calling for a radical overhaul of UK accounting practices in the wake of the scandals at Enron...
Charities that fail to submit annual accounts on time or provide adequate financial information should face fines or be stopped from making street collections, an influential group of MPs said this...
Local government leaders' patience finally snapped this week as they hit out at ministers for forcing through the Comprehensive Performance Assessment regime without delivering the extra freedoms...
