Local authorities will soon be asked to help Whitehall meet its strict child poverty targets as part of the government's ambitious plan to eradicate the problem by 2020.
The political battle over academy schools will intensify next week, when a leading think-tank publishes data indicating that institutions that control their own admissions procedures are increasingly...
The Department of Health has claimed a legal victory in the row over the new system for recruiting junior doctors, but the future of the scheme remains uncertain following attacks by doctors and...
Town hall leaders this week gave a cautious welcome to the government's controversial plan to refer national infrastructure planning decisions to an independent commission.
Ambitions to regenerate the Thames Gateway area will fail unless costs are tackled and Whitehall departments and agencies co-operate, government auditors warned this week.
Whitehall departments and other large public sector employers will be subject to a compulsory carbon emissions trading scheme under government plans to meet Britain's future energy needs.
The top tier of the civil service in Scotland has been radically reorganised to fit the slimmer Cabinet introduced by the new Scottish Nationalist Party minority government.
A good settlement for local government will be a key element of a successful Comprehensive Spending Review, the Cabinet minister overseeing the spending plans said this week.
If the Treasury will not seize a proportion of the profits made from sales of Private Finance Initiative shares it must act to stop uncompetitive monopolies, MPs have said.
Scotland's first minority nationalist government was set to be endorsed on May 17 after the historic election of Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond as first minister.
Councils are gearing up to resume their role as significant house builders after senior Labour figures said they were vital to increasing the supply of new homes.
Innovative approaches to service delivery can help councils bridge the gap between rising public expectations and tighter finances, the local government watchdog said this week.
Court action came a step closer this week for nine public sector bodies that have continued to fail to comply with new disability discrimination legislation.
The relationship between citizen and government will have to undergo a radical shift if future challenges are to be met, two of Tony Blair's former advisers warned this week.
Further education colleges have given their backing to a major inspection shake-up that will see the best colleges subject to shorter 'light touch' visits and more resources and support directed at...
Most of the UK's public sector finance managers have spent at least a year working in a private sector environment and the two are increasingly trading top staff, research has found.
Chancellor Gordon Brown must extend payment by results systems across the public services if he is to effectively re-engage staff in the reform agenda, a senior minister has claimed.
NHS reform minister Andy Burnham used his first speech since Prime Minister Tony Blair's resignation to strike a more conciliatory tone towards beleaguered NHS staff.
