Government should increase spending on social care for older people by more than 50%, the long-awaited Wanless review of the future of care funding has recommended.
Whitehall's scientists this week called on the government to stop its 'schizophrenic and dangerously complacent' approach to science allowing public sites to close while investing £10bn in...
Under the UK's presidency of the European Union, the commission made good progress on tightening up its financial controls, auditor general Sir John Bourn said this week.
Schools and dental services are to be the prime beneficiaries of the extra £45m granted to the Welsh Assembly government in Chancellor Gordon Brown's budget.
The Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 must prioritise anti-child poverty investment if ministers are to hit their targets on the issue, a new report claims.
Further education leaders have urged Education Secretary Ruth Kelly to be more radical in her reforms, following publication of the white paper on the future of the sector this week.
Thirty-nine finalists have been selected by the judges of the Public Servants of the Year Awards to go forward to the high-profile ceremony in London in May.
A leading local authority has been told it cannot advertise employment training courses for deprived ethnic minority groups at Jobcentre Plus offices following a dispute over the Race Relations Act.
Town halls will need more money if they are to help the government achieve their ambitious carbon emission targets, local government leaders warned this week.
The government came under pressure this week to crack down on UK's companies' tacit support of corruption and money-laundering in poor African countries.
Scottish backbench councillors are to be paid a basic salary of £15,452 a year but leaders will receive less than that recommended by an independent committee.
Local government reforms are threatened by a 'demographic deficit' unless fresh talent is attracted into the sector, an influential think-tank is warning.
Local authorities could start issuing more capital bonds as an alternative to central government borrowing or the Private Finance Initiative, according to credit rating agency Standard & Poor's.
The local government pensions dispute remains in deadlock, despite emergency talks convened by the government this week following a one-day strike that disrupted council services across the UK.
The permanent secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions this week rejected claims that his organisation is 'in crisis' following a series of damaging reports but acknowledged that the DWP...
Gordon Brown gave an unambiguous signal that the days of plenty are over for the public sector as he used his Budget statement to announce that four Whitehall departments would have their expenditure...
Police forces reacted with a mixture of delight and dismay after Home Secretary Charles Clarke set out merger plans for three more English regions this week.