About a third of Scotland's schools are still in a poor condition, despite billions of pounds of investment over the past decade, a major report by public sector watchdogs has found.
Two-thirds of government departments are unlikely to meet the target of reducing carbon emissions from offices by 12.5% by 2010, according to a report by the Sustainable Development Commission.
The Learning and Skills Council will be dissolved and town halls will take control of the £7bn spent each year in colleges and sixth forms, ministers confirmed this week.
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has launched a draft strategy on participatory budgeting, aiming to give members of the public more say in how public money is spent.
Local authorities are set to be given more powers to crack down on cowboy builders. At the same time, they will have to spend less time regulating firms that provide a good service.
Doctors and patients have cast doubts on the value of the government's extended Patient Choice scheme as ministers did their best to advertise its virtues in advance of an April 1 roll-out.
Sickness absence costs the economy £100bn a year and the public sector needs to take a lead in managing the issue, the government's health and work czar said this week.
Vital public investment will not be sacrificed merely to avoid breaching the sustainable investment rule when International Financial Reporting Standards come into force, Alistair Darling has...
Hopes that the Great Britain Olympic team will finish fourth in the 2012 Olympic medal table are already at risk because of the difficulties in raising the £100m needed to achieve such a goal.
Scots would get their biggest tax cut in a generation under the Scottish National Party government's plans for a local income tax, Finance Secretary John Swinney has claimed.
The government is to give a £6m boost to volunteer training as part of its response to recommendations from the Commission on the Future of Volunteering.
Auditors have praised the second stage of procurement for the Welsh Assembly's new building, the Senedd, after the controversy-hit scheme was put on hold in 2001.
Chief officers of public services in Scotland remain to be convinced of the benefits of shared services and whether these can produce projected savings of £750m, a survey has found.
A new system of regulatory budgets for Whitehall departments, setting out the cost of regulations that could be introduced in a given period, would be 'a world first', the government has claimed.
