Police figures are sceptical that Home Secretary John Reid's apparent willingness to slow down the controversial police merger programme will result in any significant change of plan.
Government and local authority interaction with communities after the London bombings last July was 'well-intentioned' but 'could have been better co-ordinated', the Home Office has been warned.
Scottish business leaders have given cautious backing to a proposal to hand a share of income tax, corporation tax and VAT directly to the Scottish Executive rather than to the Treasury in London.
The Treasury this week stood firm over its decision to administer tax credits from the Revenue and Customs department, despite claims that the system is 'in crisis' and should be moved to the...
Unions representing university academics have rejected a proposed 13.1% pay rise over three years, and warned that their exam-marking boycott might intensify into full-scale strike action.
Core Whitehall departments struggled to match the performance of other central government bodies in getting to grips with the Freedom of Information Act, according to recent figures.
Scotland's public sector watchdog has defended itself against claims by members of the Scottish Parliament that it might not be achieving best value following rising costs in its budget.
The National Audit Office has hit out at the way the Department for Constitutional Affairs calculates the so-called 'payment rate' for court fines its performance benchmark.
Town halls are being asked for their views on the best way to encourage young people, people with disabilities, and those from inner cities and black and ethnic minority communities to make the most...
The government this week published plans for the most radical overhaul of the UK pensions system since the introduction of the welfare state, proposing to make people work longer, save more and...
Local authorities will peg business rate increases to no more than inflation if they are returned to local control as part of a shake-up of the finance regime, town hall leaders have promised.
A committee of MPs has condemned the Department of Health's contracting and negotiation arrangements for GP out-of-hours services as 'scarcely believable', and 'a concealed pay rise for GPs'.
The reorganisation of police forces in England and Wales must be properly organised and funded, the new head of the Association of Chief Police Officers said this week.
A bigger share of public expenditure must be invested in education over the next two decades if Scotland is to compete internationally and combat poverty and inequality, First Minister Jack McConnell...
Senior civil servants will shortly be asked to sign a confidentiality declaration and assign copyright to the Crown for information relating to their work, under plans to prevent the publication of...
The minister co-ordinating the government's public services reforms this week urged Whitehall departments to sign up to a project that could prevent workforce opposition to future changes.
Network Rail this week revealed that two of its senior executives were among 4,300 staff targeted by criminals in Whitehall's multi-million pound tax credits fraud.
Chancellor Gordon Brown's tough new public sector pay remit has sparked an angry response from senior civil servants, who accuse the government of failing to understand the complexities of Whitehall'...
Local authority efforts to curb low-level disorder and antisocial behaviour are hampered by insufficient and uncoordinated data collection, a report from the Audit Commission has found.
Former chief financial officer at North East Lincolnshire Council Andrew Ecelson has been expelled from CIPFA. The disciplinary committee found Ecelson guilty of misconduct and breach of...
