Town halls and trade unions are demanding that the Department for Communities and Local Government expands a one-off capitalisation of revenues to help councils meet £3bn in equal pay claims across...
Clinicians and new technology are at the centre of the government's vision for the future of the NHS, health minister Lord Ara Darzi was due to say on October 4.
Several hundred civil service jobs in Scotland would be axed under plans drawn up in advance of the Comprehensive Spending Review, which is expected to impose a tight squeeze on Holyrood's budget.
Communities Minister Stewart Maxwell has given an assurance that the new Scottish government is firmly committed to achieving a 2012 target for eliminating homelessness.
Most council tenants whose homes are transferred to housing associations fail to notice much difference in service, the latest Survey of English housing reveals.
Great Ormond Street hospital has gone public on its intention to establish a trading charity to circumvent the cap on private patient income for NHS foundation trusts.
Ministers have not given sufficient thought to the practical consequences of involving more third sector organisations in the delivery of public services, commissioning experts have said.
The NHS foundation trust regulator Monitor has approved four more trusts for foundation status and streamlined its approval process as NHS trusts race to meet the nominal April 2008 deadline.
Police forces are unable to show whether new systems of managing telephone calls from the public are delivering the intended benefits or providing value for money, Audit Scotland has found.
The Office for National Statistics has reclassified the £2.4bn debt of London Underground contractors Tube Lines and Metronet as public sector borrowing, increasing net debt by up to 0.1% of gross...
A single body should replace the 'overcrowded landscape' of organisations that audit, inspect and regulate public services in Scotland, an independent review has concluded.
Plans by the Scottish government to freeze council tax and cut business rates will cost more than £1.3bn over the next three years, according to a leading public finance commentator and former...
The government's forthcoming ten-year strategy for children must address the educational needs of the most disadvantaged and disaffected youngsters, experts said this week.
The government's move towards 'lighter-touch' regulation in adult social care creates new concerns, a senior inspector told delegates at the CIPFA social care finance conference on September 24.
The former finance director of an NHS hospital trust has been 'suspended' from CIPFA membership after being found guilty of professional misconduct and of breaching the institute's standards.
Experts from across government, education, business and the public sector are being brought together to draw up a strategy for adult education in the UK.
