Clinical negligence claims are on the increase and the cost of settling future claims is expected to cost £65bn, NHS bodies have warned the Ministry of Justice.
The rate at which right to buy discounts have been handed out in the past six years has sparked a social housing ‘firesale’, the Local Government Association has warned.
The UK’s £225m pledge to the “global learning crisis” is disappointing and falls short of what was expected, MPs on the International Development Committee have said.
The government’s response to school teachers quitting the profession in England has been “sluggish and incoherent”, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
The government should take an “urgent look” at increasing funding to affordable housing as more than 150,000 homes for social rent have been lost in five years, the Chartered Institute of Housing has...
CIPFA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal to help boost public financial management in the Asian country.
Automation and globalisation will put one in four jobs at risk in British cities outside the South, according to a report from Centre for Cities out today.
Rotherham Council has “transformed” its children’s services since a report highlighted a series of child protection failings, an Ofsted inspection has said.
Urgent action is required by Clackmannanshire Council to address “serious concerns” in its financial position, according to a report from the Accounts Commission.
Northern Ireland faces a budget “D-day” in early February after which making key spending decisions will be “incredibly difficult” because of the lack of an executive at Stormont, MPs have been told.
A parliamentary watchdog has urged the government to improve nurses’ working conditions and access to training in order to prevent an increasing number of staff leaving the profession.
Defence secretary Gavin Williamson is to launch a programme to modernise the UK’s defences, which he said would meet threats identified by the National Security Council’s review in 2015.
