Town hall leaders have backed MPs' calls for more funding and financial powers to be devolved to councils to help strengthen major cities' transport infrastructure.
NHS watchers turning to the service's third-quarter financial report last week were bemused. Despite Department of Health claims that NHS finances were more transparent than ever, no fewer than three...
An acute shortage of social housing is reducing tenants' mobility and failing to offer them an incentive to find work, says a government-commissioned review.
The Olympic Development Agency this week found itself on the receiving end of some peculiarly apposite historical advice: don't wait for China to deliver your great leap forward.
Seventeen of the first 26 academy schools commissioned under the government's controversial programme overspent their agreed capital budgets, the public spending watchdog has revealed.
The funding system for adult social care is unsustainable and undesirable and should be replaced with an 'Every Older Person Matters' programme, central and local government leaders have said.
The man reviewing the UK's 'welfare to work' system will suggest a substantial transfer of responsibilities for long-term unemployed benefit recipients to the private and voluntary sectors.
The NHS will improve on its 2005/06 deficit of £547m by just £110m, a Department of Health report has forecast, despite staff cutbacks and rationing of patient services.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has defended its private finance programme for waste disposal, saying that councils are better protected from risk.
The General Medical Council will provide more support to NHS employers wishing to address concerns about doctors under proposals published by the government this week.
The future of public service delivery by the voluntary sector needs careful consideration, the charity regulator warned this week as many organisations are not recouping all their costs.
Northern Ireland's 26 district councils have fixed their rates for 2007/08 the first to be based on properties' capital values as at January 2005 rather than nominal rental values.
A council heavily criticised in a watchdog report has become the first in Scotland to cut its council tax since local government was reorganised in 1996.
Ministers will this week assure MPs that legislation will be amended to ensure that NHS trusts are required to work with councils to meet locally agreed targets.
Bottled water will continue to be served in the House of Commons despite calls for it to be replaced with more economical and environmentally friendly tap water.
The government has changed the system for allocating Private Finance Initiative credits for council waste services, but campaigners say this will do little to improve environmental sustainability.
Local authorities need to make more of their successes, town hall leaders urged last week, after research showed that public satisfaction with council performance is diminishing.
Council and housing association tenants should be encouraged to buy as little as 10% of their homes as a first step towards full ownership, social landlords were told this week.
The Commission for Racial Equality's decision to investigate the Department of Health has prompted calls for new mental health legislation to be amended to promote racial equality.
