The Scottish Executive's permanent secretary John Elvidge has appointed an external review team to look at improving leadership, strategic thinking and the delivery of policy objectives for the next...
The Department of Health is considering compensating social services departments for the increased burdens created by cuts to NHS services, Public Finance has learnt.
Councils are warning that they are being starved of vital resources to fund basic services because of the government's inability to produce accurate immigration figures.
The man who made the decision to scrap the troubled Child Support Agency has told Public Finance that the organisation's demise was 'inevitable' because it 'simply was not up to the job' of...
The government's 'double devolution' rhetoric will only be meaningful if communities are involved in deciding how their public services operate, business leaders have warned.
More than a quarter of acute NHS trusts now have greater freedom from Whitehall control, following the authorisation of eight new foundation trusts this week.
High levels of public spending are exacerbating regional economic disparities and leading to dependency on central government handouts in some areas, according to a free market think-tank, Reform.
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.
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.
