The Ministry of Defence's failure to ensure its fleet of Chinook Mk3 helicopters is airworthy has been branded a 'gold standard cock-up' by a senior MP.
Elderly people and their carers should be given the flexibility to use personal social care budgets to fund gardening or cleaning services, care minister Ivan Lewis has urged.
Unions have reacted with fury to government plans to bring in private sector firms to run failing NHS trusts, while health service professionals have accused the Department of Health of recycling old...
Local authorities have welcomed extra funding to help tackle violent Islamic extremism but say this must be matched with the flexibility to implement local solutions.
The Scottish Government has imported ideas from the US state of Virginia in a bid to improve public accountability and enable people to assess how it is performing.
The British Medical Association has demanded the government 'dump polyclinics', stop investing in private care and hand control of the NHS back to clinicians.
Too many NHS trusts still have weak financial management systems that fail to produce the data required to underpin effective performance across the health service, a senior health regulator has...
The government's proposals for constitutional renewal have fallen short of its promise to transfer vital powers to Parliament, according to a new report by the Commons public administration select...
The minority Scottish National Party administration at Holyrood is facing further problems over its plans for a local income tax after admitting that tens of thousands of students could be liable to...
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has announced more cash for Planning Aid, to enable people to have a voice in the planning process. Blears said on June 2: 'The Planning Reform Bill currently going...
Finance Secretary John Swinney has ordered Aberdeen City Council to take immediate action to implement an improvement plan following a damning report on its performance.
Candidates for major public sector posts, such as the auditor general and the chief education and prisons inspectors, are to be quizzed by MPs before they take up their appointments.
An efficiency drive in the Department for Transport and its agencies could end up costing £81m rather than saving £57m, the National Audit Office has warned.
A change in the way gross domestic product is calculated could get the government off the hook as its fiscal rules are threatened by worsening economic forecasts, experts have suggested.
School teaching should be radically overhauled and given a new emphasis on the needs of the youngest children if the recent plateau in pupil progress is to be addressed, a centre-Left think-tank has...
The government's Pathways to Work programme has enabled 64,000 long-term unemployed people with disabilities or chronic illnesses to find work, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.
Introducing personal carbon allowances with credits that individuals could spend on electricity or petrol would do more to reduce climate-changing emissions than green taxes, a committee of MPs...
