Mental health provision will have to be drastically changed over the next 20 years to reflect the issue's growing importance, a think-tank has claimed.
Scotland's deputy finance minister, Tavish Scott, has defended the Executive's civil service relocation policy following a setback that forced it to drop plans to move a quango from Edinburgh.
Opposition defence secretary Michael Ancram has accused ministers of sending the country's armed forces into combat with 'one arm tied behind their back', after a National Audit Office report...
Local authorities must substantially improve their financial management arrangements in the 'brave new world' of reformed public services, James Strachan told the CIPFA annual conference in...
Prime Minister Tony Blair this week confirmed Sir Gus O'Donnell as the new Cabinet secretary, ending speculation that the job would be offered to a surprise candidate.
Housing associations and private developers will have to build eco-friendly homes to receive a share of more than £3.3bn in grants over the next two years.
Safeguards to protect NHS patients in Scotland are 'more robust and coherent' than at any time in the history of the service, a public sector watchdog has concluded.
Scotland's efficiency savings could have been £239m higher if the Executive had applied the equivalent targets set for Whitehall, Professor Arthur Midwinter, the Scottish Parliament's finance adviser...
Government buildings within the Stormont estate in Belfast might be sold off as part of a programme to rationalise civil service accommodation, Northern Ireland's Department of Finance and Personnel...
A report recommending beefed-up powers for the capital's councillors has prompted a political disagreement, with two members of the commission responsible for the study resigning.
The tough new Comprehensive Performance Assessment regime unveiled this week will cost some councils their 'excellent' or 'good' status but its Audit Commission architects are unrepentant.
Ministers are using populist language to justify their hardline response to antisocial behaviour while largely overlooking measures to tackle its causes, says a major study by King's College, London...
Scotland's 32 councils are generally looking after their finances well but have been slow to develop systematic performance management arrangements, Audit Scotland has told MSPs.
Local authorities are lagging behind the rest of the public sector in their willingness to embrace change and develop new ways of working, the director general of the CBI said this week.
Patient confidentiality is being compromised because a significant group of senior hospital doctors do not have offices, the British Medical Association warned this week.
Private developers and housing associations look set to share £200m in development grants that will be paid out by the Housing Corporation later this year.