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.
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.
Britain's armed forces do not have enough servicemen and women to meet the demands placed on them by operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, MPs warned this week.
The army of external consultants advising Whitehall departments should be tied to performance-related contracts under plans to secure better value for taxpayers, a senior auditor said this week.
Newly appointed local government minister John Healey has pledged to forge a 'new relationship' between central and local government and to devolve extensive powers to regional and local levels.
Soaring dementia levels are being ignored by health and social services across England: 'swept under the carpet' in the way cancer was in the 1950s, a senior MP and auditors warned this week.
Major housing associations that receive the lion's share of money to build new homes face a struggle to bring some of their older properties up to standard.
First Minister Alex Salmond has appointed an influential group of leading academics and business leaders to sit on a new Council of Economic Advisers in Scotland.
The Scottish National Party has been criticised by a public finance expert for lacking financial discipline and making 'dubious assumptions' about future savings.
