The Private Finance Initiative has come under fire for chronic delays in tendering times, lack of business and negotiating skills among public sector teams and a shortage of bidders.
Parents of up to 1 million children living in disability-related poverty will be subjected to tougher benefit tests next year, under plans to get 20,000 incapacitated people back into work.
A flagship government policy aimed at encouraging GPs to shape local NHS services through a beefed-up commissioning role is struggling to take off, the Audit Commission has found.
Star ratings could give way to a traffic-light system of inspection, it emerged this week as public service watchdogs set out proposals for a radical revamp of the local inspection regime.
Public and private sector organisations are ignoring most energy-saving advice aimed at making them cut their carbon emissions, government auditors said this week.
Whitehall departments are undermining devolution to town halls by attempting to introduce surreptitious targets for local services despite government promises to slash central diktats.
Hospitals in England have been given four months and almost £60m to carry out a 'deep clean', which the government hopes will eradicate healthcare-acquired infections such as MRSA.
Many homes in Hull would have escaped flooding in June if Yorkshire Water had acted on a series of warnings about the poor condition of its pumping stations, an independent report has found.
Local government minister John Healey has revealed 11 areas that will act as 'troubleshooters' for the introduction of new partnerships to improve local services under Whitehall's devolution agenda.
Candidates standing for local elections are still overwhelmingly white, male and over 55, according to a new survey by the Improvement and Development Agency.
The director of finance of the Welsh Assembly Government has come under fire following what council leaders described as an 'appalling' settlement for councils.
London's five Olympic boroughs will experiment with an employment programme aimed at entire families, under government plans to devolve tailored services.
The part-privatisation of Qinetiq, the Ministry of Defence's research arm where shares owned by its top ten managers rocketed to £107m is to be heavily criticised in a National Audit Office...
More than 40% of benefit claimants who enter work are back on the dole within six months, auditors have reported, casting doubt on ministers' plans to get millions more people into sustainable...
