Business leaders this week urged the government not to back away from the privatisation of jobseeker services, after the welfare reform minister told Public Finance that plans for regional...
A hastily introduced sentencing policy is damaging the criminal justice system by overcrowding Britain's jails and reintroducing the miseries of asylums within prisons, a study has claimed.
Communities in the Thames Valley were bracing themselves for more flooding as operations continued to restore tap water supplies to 350,000 people in western England after thousands of hectares were...
Ministers have bowed to pressure from councils and social landlords by pledging to nearly double the number of affordable homes built each year by the start of the next decade.
Nine of the 16 bids for unitary status submitted by English local authorities have been given the green light by local government minister John Healey.
Business leaders have warned that the private sector is receiving mixed signals from the Department of Health over the future role it can play in the NHS.
Permanent secretary Sir John Elvidge has come under fire from Opposition parties after disclosing that talks are taking place on the creation of a separate Scottish civil service.
The Office for National Statistics has hit back at criticisms from MPs that its plans to relocate staff to South Wales threaten the quality of key economic data such as inflation figures.
Antisocial behaviour measures cost £3.6bn a year, but there is no systematic evaluation of whether that money could be better spent, the Commons Public Accounts Committee has found.
Northern Ireland's five education and library boards have been given a year's stay of execution after ministers decided to delay the creation of their replacement Education and Skills Authority,...
Twelve proposals for revitalising one of the government's low-cost home ownership schemes have reached the final stages of a competition set up by Gordon Brown.
Eight arm's-length management organisations and a further two council-led bids are among 38 new investment partners announced by the Housing Corporation.
The Home Office has renewed its call for the pre-charge detention period for arrested suspects to be extended as part of a future counter-terrorism Bill.
Britain's 'stunningly complex' benefits system has fuelled the rising payment error rates that this week led auditors to qualify the Department for Work and Pensions' accounts for the eighteenth...
Health Secretary Alan Johnson pledged to improve the convenience and accessibility of GP care this week, after it emerged that patients in deprived areas and those from ethnic minorities were the...
Gordon Brown's new ministerial team has ditched plans to create 'mega-contractors' that would enjoy lucrative regional monopolies in the forthcoming privatisation of jobseeker programmes.
Patients attending independent sector treatment centres are safe, but it is impossible to say how their care compares with the NHS as the centres systematically fail to provide the relevant data, the...
Sure Start children's centres came under fire again this week after senior MPs criticised them for not doing enough to help the most disadvantaged families.
The Cabinet Office has ordered an urgent review of the UK's civil contingencies planning following a report on the Buncefield oil depot blast, which revealed widespread public confusion about...
Pensioner poverty rates are unlikely to decline, despite government plans to invest billions in re-linking state payments to earnings, financial experts warned this week.
The chief medical officer for England and Wales, Sir Liam Donaldson, has used his annual report to call for 'raided' public health funds to be restored.
Housing associations should help families move out of temporary accommodation by renting them properties on behalf of private landlords, says a new report.
