The troubled Child Support Agency will be swept away and replaced with a new body that will deliver simpler and more effective ways of collecting child maintenance, Work and Pensions Secretary John...
The Department of Health has admitted that the financial regime governing NHS trusts is unsustainable, yet has declined to implement an Audit Commission recommendation to correct it.
Scottish councils are to receive extra revenue funding of £393m in 2007/08 an increase of 4.7% on last year, Finance Minister Tom McCabe has announced.
There must be no back-pedalling on reform as the health service seeks to recover financial balance, NHS chief executive David Nicholson told the Healthcare Financial Management Association annual...
Sir Michael Lyons' Inquiry into the future of local government has been delayed once more this time so that he can take into account the recommendations of the Barker, Eddington and Leitch reviews...
Northern Ireland's schools are to be encouraged to move towards cross-community co-operation under proposals from a government-commissioned review led by Sir George Bain.
Road pricing, cutting congestion, reducing carbon monoxide emissions and improving accessibility to public transport will be at the heart of Scotland's 20-year strategy on transport, Transport...
Inaccuracies in the way hospitals code the activities they perform to bill primary care trusts 'undermines' the payment by results regime, the Audit Commission has warned.
Housing associations could miss out on grants to build homes if they fail to work effectively with local authorities, the Housing Corporation warned this week.
Services for older people are 'teetering on the brink', Local Government Association chair Lord Sandy Bruce-Lockhart was due to tell the House of Lords on December 7.
Tackling antisocial behaviour costs taxpayers £3.4bn a year, but half of all antisocial behaviour orders are breached and some towns are dogged by perceived threats of yobbish acts, a study has...
What links climate change, transport, planning and health? Answer: they are some of the issues that Chancellor Gordon Brown has outsourced to expert, independent review.
The transfer of hospital services into the community moved a step further this week as the government told primary care trusts to develop local markets with a range of providers.
An all-too familiar debate was reignited this week as ministers unveiled the provisional local government grant settlement for 2007/08. Councils were quick to warn that they faced tough choices...
