Public sector staff are set to intensify their opposition to the government's reform and pay agendas, in defiance of stern warnings from the prime minister and chancellor this week that they will not...
Public sector employment in Scotland has risen by 11% since devolution, with the largest increase in local government, latest statistics have revealed.
More than 10% of social care posts were unfilled in September 2005, an increase of 0.6% from 2001, a survey commissioned by the Local Government Association has found.
The largest teaching union has published an independent study into academy schools amid what it calls 'considerable public and political anxiety' about the programme.
Social exclusion minister Hilary Armstrong this week warned local authorities and government departments that they must improve the way they deliver services to Britain's most vulnerable groups or...
The Department of Health has indicated that it wishes all NHS trusts to move towards the more market-orientated financial system currently experienced only by foundation trusts.
The National Audit Office has sought to play down the significance of reports that it will reopen its inquiry into a multibillion pound NHS computer scheme 12 weeks after its initial report.
The Local Government Association is embarking on a root-and-branch review of its operation as it prepares to confront a new era in town hall administration.
A local authority remains confident of transferring 18,000 homes to a new social landlord, although the government has ruled out its bid for £135m of extra funding.
The future of more than 50 pan-London community services remains in doubt, as the Association of London Government examines proposals to cut grants to voluntary and community organisations by up to a...
Councils in Scotland are in line for extra funding of around £100m to ease pressure on budgets and limit council tax rises in the year of elections to the Holyrood Parliament and local authorities.
Trade unions have vowed to fight the government's plan to outsource more than 1,650 jobs and responsibility for 25% of the NHS's non-pay spend to the German-based delivery firm DHL.
A sharp rise in the child prison population has left councils hard pressed to meet their statutory duties to care for vulnerable child ex-offenders, say town hall leaders.
