Teachers will have to wait months longer than other public sector workers before finding out if they are to move to localised pay, it has been revealed.
The Scottish Care Inspectorate is to spearhead a strategic assessment of care services for children over the coming year, under plans published today in the latest local government inspection...
Developed economies must take ‘concrete and targeted’ action to tackle unacceptably high levels of youth unemployment, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The Audit Commission is calling for government departments to be required to join its National Fraud Initiative, which has saved £1bn elsewhere in the public sector since it began in 1996.
A global financial transaction tax could raise up to $250bn (£156bn) a year that governments should use to fight poverty, reduce inequality and protect human rights, a group of United Nations-...
Auditors have been unable to sign off the accounts of child maintenance payments made by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission for the third successive year.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic output will increase by 5.5% this year as new resource production in many countries and a recovery in Western Africa help to boost the region’s performance, the...
The Scottish National Party government has promised to work in constructive partnership with Scotland’s newly elected councils, in spite of a series of local coalition deals by the unionist parties...
The government has been ‘inundated’ with more than 2,000 applications from schools to run summer schools funded by £50m of the pupil premium programme, according to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
The government’s plan to shift health care from hospitals to communities is under-funded and under-staffed, the Royal College of Nursing said this week.
Plans to monitor the spending of public money in academy schools are weak and might not be able to ensure accountability, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
The government’s assessments of individual adoption services, published today, lack credibility and could deter prospective adopters, councils have said.
The BBC has reduced its back-office costs in the past five years and is set to make further real-terms savings, the National Audit Office has concluded.
Eurozone members have withheld part of their latest tranche of bailout funds for Greece, as doubts continue over the country’s commitment to meeting the terms of its agreements and remaining in the...
Trade unions are urging the government to reopen negotiations on public sector pension changes as hundreds of thousands of workers strike today over the issue.
