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.
Scots council tax bills are to rise by less than the rate of inflation. A number of factors, including a generous funding settlement and fears of the impact at the ballot box, have all played a role
A £12m Department of Health joint venture might have broken European Union procurement law and overestimated the potential size of the market by a factor of 16, the National Audit Office has found.
A new government-sponsored commission is to examine ways to encourage more young people, women and individuals from ethnic minorities to become councillors.
Public sector pension funds have launched a campaign against inflation-busting bonuses for executives at US and multinational companies, using their substantial assets as leverage.
The beleaguered Home Office this week introduced the first ever Whitehall 'contract' clarifying the specific roles and responsibilities of ministers and civil servants, Public Finance has learnt.
Councils are not securing appropriate or cost-effective education for children with special educational needs, the local government watchdog warned this week.
The NHS must recruit many more consultant obstetricians and thousands of midwives to ensure a major shake-up in maternity services delivers better patient care, experts said this week.
Anti-nuclear campaigners this week accused Defence Secretary Des Browne of 'evasiveness' over the cost of the proposed Trident weapons replacement system.
Public Accounts Committee chair Edward Leigh has reacted angrily to National Audit Office findings that 'efficiency gains' reported under the Gershon agenda are still not being robustly measured by...
Government health watchdogs have criticised the 'disgraceful' lack of co-ordinated effort in reducing the number of children who have to be taken to hospital following preventable injury.
GPs could deliver huge savings for the NHS by taking on more of the care traditionally given in acute hospitals, according to a Department of Health expert.
The scale of the impending cutbacks in public spending have been starkly illustrated this week as independent experts warned that the government will have to choose between cutting child poverty and...
An extensive review of the welfare system will consider reducing the period for which lone parents receive child benefits but ministers have vowed not to reduce payment levels, the Department for...
Whitehall health officials this week conceded that they have taken on board the lessons of a failed hospital development after senior MPs slammed the project's management.
