Schools in Northern Ireland must ask for proof of parents' addresses if there is a 'general knowledge or belief' that some are giving false details, the Department of Education has said.
Ministers have moved swiftly to guarantee the future of a flagship regeneration programme after a government document wrongly suggested that it was under threat.
Stock transfers from councils to housing associations have helped create a two-tier workforce among staff employed by the same landlord, a union has claimed.
Louise Casey, the government's 'respect' czar, is leaving her post to head a review into ways of involving local communities in anti-crime initiatives.
The Scottish government plans to fund an increasing number of public sector projects through a bond issue scheme instead of the Private Finance Initiative, Finance Secretary John Swinney told MSPs.
Efforts to reduce the administrative burden on teachers and allow them to spend more time with their pupils have borne fruit, education inspectors claimed this week.
Town hall leaders are warning of cuts to services and jobs after the government's long-awaited Comprehensive Spending Review and Pre-Budget Report this week gave them a meagre 0.9% annual funding...
News that adult social care funding will be frozen in real terms was sweetened slightly by the confirmation that the government will consult on a radical overhaul to the system.
Local authorities are urging the government to state exactly how much longer they have to bring their rents in line with those charged by housing associations.
Local Government and Communities Secretary Hazel Blears is under pressure to sign up to an 'accord' to eradicate child poverty, after Chancellor Alistair Darling's Comprehensive Spending Review...
Ministers should not force the Jobcentre Plus agency into further job cuts or they risk undermining progress in helping people off benefits and into work, backbench MPs warned this week.
Payment by results might help hospital managers and clinicians to understand their costs better, but it comes with significant costs of its own, the CIPFA health finance conference heard.
Primary care trusts should take patients' complaints into account when making commissioning decisions, especially those involving independent sector providers, the Healthcare Commission said this...
Private sector expectations for lucrative NHS contracts have 'come down with a bump' after government projections for their involvement proved to be 'over-egged', leading market analysts have said.
The pledge to end the 'postcode lottery' in who gets free social care might not bear fruit because primary care trusts are ignoring new guidance from the Department of Health, Public Finance has...
Traditional procurement is delivering more value for money as the discipline of the Private Finance Initiative spreads across the market, the Treasury's head of PFI policy has said.
David Cameron pledged a new era of 'freedom and control' for users of public services and challenged Gordon Brown to call an election in his speech to the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool...
Local Government Secretary Hazel Blears is under pressure to reject a proposed overhaul of council services in the Northwest, after auditors representing one of the nine bids for unitary status...
