Scottish local authorities’ progress towards common services and procurement is likely to be at the expense of Scottish suppliers, a management expert has warned.
Ed Miliband has launched Labour’s campaign for next month’s English local elections by promising that the party’s councils will act as the ‘last line of defence’ against the government’s ‘damaging’...
More than 1,400 adult care staff at The Highland Council have today been transferred to the NHS as part of Scottish Government plans to integrate social and health care provision.
The International Monetary Fund must speed up reforms to give developing countries a bigger say in the organisation, the leaders of the biggest emerging economies said yesterday.
The first half of 2012 will see ‘robust’ growth in the United States and Canada but much weaker activity in Europe, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said yesterday.
The government has launched a ‘right to choose’ campaign as part of its proposals to open up public services to a wider range of providers. This could also lead to legislation enshrining greater...
The International Monetary Fund has decided to lend Angola the remaining $132.9m of a package agreed in 2009, despite calls for the money to be withheld until the country explains a $32bn ‘...
The ten councils with the largest number of troubled families in England have agreed to join a government scheme that will pay them up to £4,000 for each problem household they help.
English universities and colleges are digesting the impact of reduced grant funding for the next academic year, which will be the first under the new fee regime.
The World Bank will focus on building ‘capable, transparent and accountable’ institutions in countries it supports as well as monitoring its programmes more rigorously, according to its updated...
Campaigners have urged the International Monetary Fund to withhold a $130m loan to Angola until the southern African country fully explains a $32bn accounting ‘discrepancy’.
Every young person out of work for more than a year should be given a publicly funded ‘Youth Job Promise’, according to the independent experts examining last summer’s riots.
The economic benefit of building the UK’s only existing high-speed rail line will not be big enough to meet the cost of the project, it has been revealed today.
