A leading Whitehall contractor was this week accused of breaking employment rules when it announced more compulsory redundancies involving civil service jobs that are being taken offshore.
Social service leaders are giving their cautious co-operation to a scheme to send vulnerable children to boarding school, but are warning that the project runs counter to the rest of the child...
Council tax in Scotland should be replaced by a new property tax requiring householders to pay 0.9% of the value of their home annually, the Burt committee on the future of local government finance...
Joint reviews of social services in Wales place huge demands on local authorities but are leading to improvements in services, according to an independent evaluation.
Town halls this week set out their wish list for economic devolution within the context of the sector's white paper urging ministers to establish new funding streams for sub-regional transport,...
A heated row over the future of local government in Northern Ireland broke out after the composition of the seven proposed new Northern Ireland 'super-councils' was published by the Local Government...
Local authorities, central government and parents must broaden their sights in the fight against antisocial behaviour and focus on prevention as well as punishment, Whitehall's 'respect' czar...
Reforms designed to split the NHS into competing provider and purchaser organisations do not adequately address the needs of the 17 million people with long-term conditions, participants in last week...
'We will step back and allow more freedom and flexibility at the local level. In exchange, we expect to see more accountability to local citizens, stronger local leadership, better and more efficient...
Pensions minister James Purnell this week floated a 'radical simplification' of the state second pension and claimed that the cost would not breach the financial 'cap' proposed by the Pensions...
Council rents are expected to rise by up to 5% after the government announced that local authorities will receive an extra £132m for managing and maintaining their homes.
Local authorities should be placed under a statutory duty to guarantee the environmental sustainability of their areas for future generations, leading green campaigners said this week.
Police authorities have reacted with anger and disappointment to the costs paid by central government following the abandonment of the police merger programme.
Capita, one of the UK's largest government outsourcing companies, is set to stand down from the CBI's influential public services board, Public Finance has learnt.
The Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information has been transferred to the Department for Constitutional Affairs in an attempt to tidy up responsibilities for information.
Europe's head of audit has initiated urgent discussions with Brussels' financial watchdog over the accounting system used for the European Union, after experts refused to sign off the accounts for...
