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.
Scottish ministers are to demand that unspent cash should be fully available to the Executive in the next budget round and not retained by the Treasury in London.
Taxpayers face a 'significant risk' following the restructuring of British Energy, with the cost of Britain's £5.3bn nuclear decommissioning liabilities expected to soar, MPs have warned.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week outlined plans to force benefit claimants into work axing some payments and asking people to take jobs outside their locality.
Civil servants have condemned a Foreign and Commonwealth Office decision to axe language services for government staff involved in anti-terrorism work.
Elderly people in some areas of England are 160 times more likely to receive NHS continuing care than others, startling figures published on July 13 reveal.
Councils and their partners need to make clear who disgruntled citizens should complain to about jointly delivered services, the local government ombudsman said this week.
New Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has vowed to make 'localism and devolution' the watchwords of her tenure, she said in her first major speech since her appointment.
The Ministry of Defence has been accused of failing to give proper training and support to military reservists at a time when they are increasingly being called into action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The government's Health and Safety Executive is set to relocate hundreds of posts from London to Merseyside as part of a Whitehall plan to cut civil service numbers and costs, Public Finance can...
The delivery of flagship skills programmes remains on track despite the decision to split the former Department for Education and Skills in two, a senior education official claimed this week.
Public bodies are undermining Prime Minister Gordon Brown's efficiency drive by paying up to two-thirds above the market rate for equipment and services, a study of the sector's procurement habits...
Councils and other public service leaders rushed to unpick the substance of the government's forthcoming legislative plans as the prime minister broke with tradition and set out much of his programme.
Public sector pension funds are using their hefty financial clout to lobby for changes to the government's draft Climate Change Bill, claiming that ministers are not doing enough to cut CO2 emissions.
The government's Sure Start project has failed to help deprived black and ethnic minority families, according to a report for the new Department for Children, Schools and Families.
