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...
Figures obtained by Public Finance suggest that NHS patients treated in private hospitals are more likely to require emergency readmission than those treated in the NHS.
A £2.15bn ground-breaking agreement has brought benefits to the teaching profession in Scotland, a public sector watchdog has found. But a lack of performance measures makes it difficult to assess...
Town hall leaders have welcomed Sir Michael Lyons' latest report on local government reform, which gives a boost to the localism agenda as it calls for greater decentralisation.
The Public Accounts Committee has called for the Environment Agency to tighten up its regulations to preserve water resources and safeguard the environment.
Sweeping changes to the government's housing department have created the perfect opportunity to revive stalled building plans, a leading homeless charity has said.
Local authorities are struggling to provide appropriate housing for vulnerable adults because of cuts in the Supporting People grant, the Commission for Social Care Inspection has found.
MPs have called for an overhaul of civil service skills at the Ministry of Defence, warning that a failure to develop commercial awareness could undermine the government's Defence Industrial Strategy...
The new contract for senior hospital doctors has cost £90m more than expected and failed to deliver better services to patients, the King's Fund said this week.
The membership of the new management team that will lead the English NHS regions became clearer this week with the appointment of eight of the ten new strategic health authority chief executives.
Nurses and pharmacists have hailed the dawn of a new era after the Department of Health confirmed they would be allowed to prescribe a wider range of drugs.
Revenue & Customs officials have won an important legal battle that ensures British banks must hand over details about offshore customers to tax collectors.
New arrangements for out-of-hours GP services have been condemned as 'shambolic' following a watchdog report that found lengthy waiting times and a 22% cost overrun.
