Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced a plan for tackling violent crime just three days ahead of a National Audit Office report warning that the government lacked a long-term strategic approach to...
More than a fifth of students are dropping out of university - the same proportion as five years ago, according to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
Scotland's largest local authority is to shed more than 400 posts following its decision to freeze council tax in line with the policy of the Scottish government.
Next month's decision on seven planned NHS independent sector treatment centres will show whether the government is committed to reforming the service, the CBI said this week.
Local authorities will ignore centrally imposed house-building targets unless they have financial incentives to approve developers' plans, according to a senior government adviser.
Legal action by a private firm against a not-for-profit insurance mutual set up by London local authorities could threaten its existence, its chair has warned.
An uncomfortable truth lurked amid all the congratulations that greeted last week's publication of the Audit Commission's Comprehensive Performance Assessments, lauded as the best ever by ministers,...
Public bodies in Wales must stop putting their own needs first and instead focus on meeting the expectations of citizens for quality services, the minister in charge has warned.
Almost half of public sector employers expect to make staff redundant over the next three months, a survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has revealed.
There are neither enough funds nor 'hours in the day' to deliver government plans for all children to receive five hours of culture a week, teachers have warned.
The Healthcare Commission is to carry out a nationwide study of mental health units for older people after finding that nurses in these wards were more likely to be attacked than those treating...
Local government minister John Healey has announced that councils will again be allowed to use capitalisation to help meet their equal pay obligations.
