Government plans to allow local authorities to opt out of the housing finance system have been dismissed as unworkable. Instead, the Chartered Institute of Housing is urging the government to scrap...
The Legal Services Commission has admitted to 'a difficult year' after failing to hit 19 of its 35 key performance indicator targets and seeing its new computer system collapse.
Local government workers in Scotland are planning a further one-day strike later this month, following the failure of unions and local authority employers to reach agreement on pay
Plans by Ofsted to outsource its early education and childcare work have provoked trade union warnings that inspections could be 'severely compromised'.
Scottish Water claims to be the fastest improving water company in the UK. In its annual report for 2007/08, the public sector utility said it continued to outperform its regulatory contract while...
An expert panel on NHS change has insisted its decision to back the reduction of services at two hospitals will lead to 'high-quality' local health services
The Scottish Government is to press ahead with its controversial plan for a Scottish Futures Trust, which will play a 'key role' in delivering a £35bn investment plan over the next decade, Finance...
The local income tax planned by the Scottish Government is not a local tax but a national levy, which would result in councils becoming the agents of central government, a leading public sector...
Bradford councillor Margaret Eaton was set to be confirmed as the first woman to chair the Local Government Association this week, after winning the Conservative Party nomination.
More than 270,000 civil servants will start a national strike ballot over pay next week, after senior government ministers failed to stem the momentum among public sector unions for widespread...
Schools Secretary Ed Balls announced a growing interest from universities in sponsoring academies, as he opened Rickstones Academy in Essex on September 10
Problems at a minority of water companies were responsible for an 11% rise in customer complaints in 2007/08, according to a report from the Consumer Council for Water
Prison officers have threatened to take strike action after it emerged that a computer disk containing the details of 5,000 justice staff had been lost by government IT contractor EDS. Justice...
A King's Fund report has said that the postcode lottery for patients with serious illnesses such as cancer and heart disease persists, in spite of attempts to address it.
Thousands of long-term jobseekers will be 'parked' on benefits under the government's £2bn Flexible New Deal employment policy, the Social Market Foundation has warned
The performance of health boards in providing day surgery varies widely across Scotland, although the service has improved during the past decade, an Audit Scotland survey has found.
Margaret Eaton, the frontrunner in the race to become the Local Government Association's new chair, will pick her battles with ministers, but has pledged to be 'aggressively forthright' if necessary.
A Public Accounts Committee attack on the management of Private Finance Initiative projects has sparked more opposition to the schemes from unions and doctors' leaders.
