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...
Fire minister Parmjit Dhanda has announced a new equality and diversity strategy for the fire service, which includes what he described as 'the toughest ever recruitment targets for women and people...
The Scottish Government's plan for a local income tax has suffered a further setback after claims by a leading professor of law that it 'almost certainly' breaches the European Charter of Local Self-...
NHS leaders and experts have defended an apparent end-of-year spending bonanza, without which the health service's surplus for 2007/08 could have vastly outstripped the £1.8bn figure set by the...
Sickness absenteeism in the civil service is more than a third higher in Northern Ireland than in Britain, the Northern Ireland Audit Office has found.
Ballot papers for industrial action will be sent to almost 1 million union members in local government this week, amid continuing unrest over the government's public sector pay cap.
The Scottish Government should be given the same borrowing powers as local authorities, Finance Secretary John Swinney has told a parliamentary committee.
Public sector staff are putting in 120 million hours of unpaid overtime a year - the equivalent of 60,000 extra workers, Bristol University academics have found.
Private and voluntary sector organisations will be encouraged to take charge of the education of some of the country's most troubled and challenging young people, under plans announced by the...
'A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.' That was Winston Churchill's description of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It could equally well describe Northern Ireland's post-primary...
Children's minister Beverley Hughes has announced a £35m pilot scheme to improve access to childcare for parents with disabled children. Part of the Department for Children, Schools and Families'...
The Wales Audit Office has heralded the latest results of the Welsh National Fraud Initiative as the most successful since the inception of the scheme in 1996.
The chief executive of NI Water has resigned following revelations that the government-owned company has a £20m annual revenue shortfall. Katharine Bryan will leave at the end of May and company...
