Representatives of millions of public sector workers will discuss co-ordinating strike action against the government's attempts to cap pay rises at next week's Trades Union Congress conference.
An internal report has produced a damning indictment of Cardiff Council children's services, which are likely to miss all but two of 20 main performance targets for 2008/09.
Public sector managers must abandon the 'outmoded' style of the twentieth-century civil service if public services are to face up to new challenges, a local government think-tank has said.
The troubled Social Fund, which provides grants and loans to benefit claimants, has had its accounts qualified for the second year running after auditors identified £85m worth of errors in...
There remains a lack of coherence in education provision for many 16-year-olds, despite attempts to create a joined-up 14-19 structure for learning, a review of local provision has found.
MPs have called for a shake-up of the 'outdated' system of benefits for the millions of carers who look after elderly or disabled relatives or friends.
Former Local Government Association chair Lord Bruce-Lockhart has died of cancer at the age of 66. A former leader of Kent County Council, Sandy Bruce-Lockhart was LGA chair from 2004 to 2007, where...
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has finally authorised the use of a drug that could prevent thousands of people from going blind.
The Scottish Government is to publish a national plan to improve services for the terminally ill, following an Audit Scotland report that calls for a more consistent approach to palliative care.
Scottish local authority employers and trade union leaders met this week in an attempt to resolve the pay dispute that led to a one-day strike by 150,000 workers.
Plans to replace 46 local fire control rooms with nine regional centres will cost more than double the government's estimates and almost nine times as much as first planned, the firefighters' union...
Opposition politicians have accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown of 'reckless fiscal irresponsibility' after official figures showed economic growth at a standstill and a gloomy outlook for public...
Controversy over Scotland's flagship free personal care service was reignited as the latest figures showed that the cost has soared by 52% in the four years since the policy was introduced.
NHS foundation trusts are aiming to make surpluses totalling £339m this financial year more than 90% up on last year's predicted levels, the regulator Monitor has revealed.
Election officers believe companies should be legally prevented from gaining access to the personal details in the electoral register, according to a survey published this week.
Legal services provided to health bodies in Northern Ireland are being brought in-house as part of the fallout from a massive fraud committed by a firm of solicitors against the Department of Health...
An Audit Commission study revealing significant levels of error in the coding that underpins the payment-by-results system should be a call to action for both providers and commissioners, NHS leaders...
