An epidemic of stabbings rocking Britain’s cities can be tackled only by addressing key problems faced by young people such as lack of housing and unemployment.
Thirty-two per cent of UK councils’ IT budgets were slashed last year while a further 21% have remained the same, according to analysis by IT consultancy Y Soft.
Auditors have warned that the financial sustainability of NHS Lothian remains a “significant risk”, with a budget gap of £26m this year expected to spiral beyond £80m by 2021-22.
Singapore and the UK have begun working together to improve the design and delivery of digital public services, the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office revealed today.
More than half the top 1% of UK income taxpayers live in London and the south east and are “overwhelmingly male and middle aged”, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Wales’s multi-billion-pound public finance deficit is reducing, but only because of spending cuts – not increasing revenues – according to experts at Cardiff University.
A survey by the British Medical Association trade union has found 42% of GPs have reduced their hours to avoid being excessively taxed on their pensions.
The care system has come under increasing strain in the last five years because of a huge rise in the number of teenagers going into care, according to analysis.
Weak consumer and business confidence fuelled by Brexit uncertainty is likely to hamper growth in Scotland in the coming months, with a fragile start to the year suggesting slow growth in the global...
