Breakfast and after-school clubs have a beneficial effect on children's confidence and motivation but they are being hampered by short-term funding, school inspectors said this week.
The Department of Health should return part of the £504m deducted from the deficit-hit NHS under its application of the Resource Accounting and Budgeting regime, the Audit Commission has said.
Lone parents on income support should be able to keep all the child maintenance they receive under the government's reformed child support system, a former welfare minister has argued.
Anyone who doubted Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell's claim that his Departmental Capability Reviews would be tougher and more honest than many Whitehall stalwarts expected need look no further...
A new, more streamlined inspection regime for district councils will release them from many of the burdens of regulation, the Audit Commission said last week.
The Department of Health's finance director Richard Douglas has admitted to MPs that the apparent sudden deterioration in the NHS's finances is a product of changes in accountancy practice.
The Department of Health has failed to prove that its policy of outsourcing half a million patients to private treatment centres provides value for the extra cost it entails, the Commons' health...
Ministers will retain a stranglehold on much of the most politically charged official data unless the government creates a truly independent statistical service, senior backbench MPs are warning.
The city-regions agenda has been thrown into doubt after two of the chancellor's closest political allies this week revealed their 'deep scepticism' at its viability as a model.
The government's ambition to improve public services is being hindered by Whitehall's 'undoubted failure' to grasp how to deliver services, an expert has told Public Finance .
The Department of Health has admitted that its payment by results hospital funding scheme has led to a deterioration in care for older people, has 'not worked' for specialist children's hospitals and...
Mental health trusts have been asked to curb their spending to help other parts of the NHS balance their books, according to the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
The Commons' health select committee has asked the government to review the system of prescription and other NHS charges and to consider whether charges for services 'not clinically necessary' could...
The Revenue & Customs department was right to stimulate competition for its major IT contract by paying bidding and transition costs, government auditors ruled this week.
