Former chief financial officer at North East Lincolnshire Council Andrew Ecelson has been expelled from CIPFA. The disciplinary committee found Ecelson guilty of misconduct and breach of...
The membership of the new management team that will lead the English NHS regions became clearer this week with the appointment of eight of the ten new strategic health authority chief executives.
A £2.15bn ground-breaking agreement has brought benefits to the teaching profession in Scotland, a public sector watchdog has found. But a lack of performance measures makes it difficult to assess...
Town hall leaders have welcomed Sir Michael Lyons' latest report on local government reform, which gives a boost to the localism agenda as it calls for greater decentralisation.
The Public Accounts Committee has called for the Environment Agency to tighten up its regulations to preserve water resources and safeguard the environment.
Sweeping changes to the government's housing department have created the perfect opportunity to revive stalled building plans, a leading homeless charity has said.
Local authorities are struggling to provide appropriate housing for vulnerable adults because of cuts in the Supporting People grant, the Commission for Social Care Inspection has found.
MPs have called for an overhaul of civil service skills at the Ministry of Defence, warning that a failure to develop commercial awareness could undermine the government's Defence Industrial Strategy...
The new contract for senior hospital doctors has cost £90m more than expected and failed to deliver better services to patients, the King's Fund said this week.
Spending on the national performing arts companies in Scotland is to be increased by more than 13% to a total of £22.5m for 2007/08, Culture Minister Patricia Ferguson announced this week.
Rising rates of middle-age obesity, diabetes and cancers are often portrayed as a huge drain on the NHS, but a study out this week shows that the 50-something English are healthier than their US...
Revenue & Customs officials have won an important legal battle that ensures British banks must hand over details about offshore customers to tax collectors.
Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett this week pledged that the government would play its part in helping to transform the nation's lifestyle habits into more environmentally friendly ones.