The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has accused the Department for Education of ‘an alarming reluctance’ to work with local authorities to improve services for children in care.
The government’s Universal Credit benefit reform is likely to encourage more claimants into work, but could see them choosing to work shorter hours, at considerable cost to the Treasury, a Resolution...
Public sector employment prospects have risen to their highest level in four years and are currently more positive than those in the private sector, a poll of employers has found.
Many councils are struggling to protect vulnerable children amid funding pressures and increasing public scrutiny on social care services following failures in places such as Rotherham, an analysis...
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has claimed that Conservative spending plans for after the election imply £70bn worth of cuts will need to be made to public services in the next parliament.
Free schools should be given priority to use vacant public sector land or buildings as part of a plan to expand the number of the institutions, which are funded directly from government and...
The Treasury still needs to learn lessons from the financial crash and must plan for a wide range of different crisis scenarios, a committee of MPs said today.
A majority of NHS providers have backed a revised payment structure for the next financial year that will provide hospitals with more money to cover the cost of emergency admissions.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said today that he was ‘ending the war’ on motorists by giving drivers a 10-minute grace period for being late back to their vehicle.
Council spending in England has been cut by almost a quarter on a per person basis since 2009/10, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Billions of pounds should be devolved to the North of England to rebalance the economy and revitalise the region’s creaking transport network, according to IPPR North.
Unprecedented pressures lie ahead for Scottish local government finances, and councils need effective long-term plans to prepare for them, the Accounts Commission for Scotland warns today in its...
The government’s council tax freeze has saved households in England £168 a year, but cost public services around £2.8bn, CIPFA’s annual survey and analysis has found.
Extending devolution to England’s non-metropolitan areas is vital to expanding economic growth and tackling skills shortages, an expert commission has concluded.
English counties are today calling for the devolution of health and social care systems, warning that centralised NHS structures are causing barriers between services.
Schools are not doing enough to challenge high-performing students to enable them to fulfil their potential, according to the education watchdog Ofsted.
Ministers need to work out a stable way to fund the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, as current financial management arrangements are a ‘recipe for failure’, MPs have warned.
Devolution in England could add £144bn a year to the UK economy by 2020 by handing powers and funds to local enterprise partnerships, according to a report from Localis.
