Members of the Scottish commission on devolution have begun holding a series of meetings across the UK to assess opinion on the powers of the devolved Holyrood Parliament.
Energy companies are making annual profits of £1.35bn by charging social housing tenants and others on low incomes extra to use pre-payment meters, a survey shows.
Next April's merger of the healthcare and care quality commissions will make confusion about the National Health Service's complaints system worse, a patients' watchdog has warned.
The prospect of concerted public sector action on pay receded this week when unions decided to put the local government dispute into arbitration despite a warning from employers that staff could...
Young people under the age of 26 are to be offered free theatre tickets as part of a £2.5m government-funded scheme, it was announced on September 23. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said...
The head of the NHS Counter Fraud Service has warned that £73m could be at risk from fraud through local procurement, where guidelines were not always followed.
A fivefold rise in the number of ten-14-year-olds being locked up in England and Wales in the past decade is the result of an 'expensive and ineffective' criminal justice strategy, says children's...
MPs from across the political divide have called for cross-party agreement on a policy of early intervention with children to tackle the 'inter-generational nature' of social problems
The fraught global economic situation could help Prime Minister Gordon Brown to sidestep questions over his leadership at Labour's party conference next week, according to well-placed observers.
NHS Connecting for Health, the body that provides the health service with computer systems for storing patient information, has launched a consultation on the wider use of patient data
Local Government Association Liberal Democrat group leader Richard Kemp has criticised proposals from his party's shadow chancellor to slash the pay of top public sector professionals
While the review on allowing NHS patients to pay 'top-ups' without jeopardising the right to free care gathers data, a debate on this emotive subject showed that opinion in the sector is polarised
