Scottish Finance Minister Tom McCabe this week launched a counter-attack against the wave of criticism of the Executive's £1.2bn efficient government initiative.
Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain has been criticised by the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance for calling for a reduction in the size of the province's public sector.
Housing associations have the potential to raise significantly more private finance, say lenders, even though total borrowing by the sector is already poised to exceed £30bn.
Parents' fundraising activities are helping to supplement the purchase of core school equipment, the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations claimed this week.
Government targets are frustrating social landlords' attempts to improve customer service and increase efficiency, according to a study by the Northern Housing Consortium.
Shadow work and pensions minister David Willetts has attacked the government for suggesting that parents should avoid using the troubled Child Support Agency for maintenance payments.
Local authorities have forced the Revenue & Customs department into a U-turn over plans to standardise the tax rates paid by councils when settling backdated equal pay claims.
The Commission for Social Care Inspection has loosened its 'special action' measures against Birmingham City Council's children's services after an inspection this summer found 'promising prospects...
New Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell has chosen a local government expert to lead the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and promoted a specialist to manage the Northern Ireland Office.
The construction industry this week issued a surprising call for more targets and red tape as representatives called attention to the slow rate of progress on public sector building projects.
Hazel Blears has emerged as Home Secretary Charles Clarke's choice to chair the commission set up to investigate the way that Muslim and other faith communities integrate into British society.
Senior local government figures queued up to criticise the government this week after David Miliband announced that the council tax revaluation exercise was being shelved and the Lyons funding...
The National Union of Teachers has welcomed the Department for Education and Skills' hardline approach to school absenteeism, which will target the parents of 8,000 'serial truants'.
The Liberal Democrat leadership this week called on members to support a bold range of new policy proposals designed to give the party a real chance of electoral success by the end of the decade.
NHS organisations continue to face tough financial decisions because of chronic underspending in the 1980s and 1990s, the NHS Confederation said this week.
Patient and Public Involvement forums might be reformed along very similar lines to the recently abolished Community Health Councils, health minister Rosie Winterton said this week.
Public bodies, such as NHS trusts and colleges, are now eligible to defer payment of millions of pounds in VAT, following a European Court of Justice ruling.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is considering proposals to expand the powers of local authority overview and scrutiny committees, so they would be able to hold government departments and...
The architect of Whitehall's £40bn savings plan believes ministers will seek to achieve public sector efficiencies beyond the target date of 2008 because of the political imperative to restrain...
