Sir David Henshaw, the chief executive behind Liverpool City Council's renaissance as a high-performing local authority, has been recruited by Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton to lead a review...
Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton this week warned that a rise in the basic state pension age is 'inevitable' the first firm indication that his forthcoming retirement proposals could contain...
Paul Coen, the incoming chief executive of the Local Government Association, has vowed to forge closer links between local agencies as the spur to achieving improvements in public services.
Bailiffs have been called in to collect an overdue £420,000 in business rates from the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust in Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt's constituency.
The official overseeing Whitehall's £40bn efficiency agenda this week urged public bodies to rethink plans to share back-office services, amid Treasury concerns that too many 'centres of excellence'...
The government was this week accused of failing Britain's poorest groups after it emerged that up to £7bn in benefits went unclaimed in 2003/04, while take-up of key welfare payments has fallen since...
Health economists have called into doubt the government's presumption that its planned transfer of 5% of current hospital activity £2.4bn in budget terms to primary and social care will be cost-...
Whitehall's under-fire Department for Work and Pensions will be asked to produce an improvement plan this summer after being picked to pilot Sir Gus O'Donnell's capability reviews.
Public sector organisations should introduce operating and financial reviews, even though the government has dropped plans to make them compulsory for the private sector, CIPFA has said.
Local authorities in England and Scotland have opened the annual trial of strength with the government over council tax with the traditional pleas for more funding and warnings of service cuts.
Lenders and developers are showing renewed interest in housing schemes funded through the Private Finance Initiative, a leading civil servant said this week.
More than £9.3m a year could be saved if prisoners deemed suitable for electronic tagging as a condition of early release were sent home when eligible, government auditors said this week.
The Home Office is set to move a key accounting unit from Liverpool to its London headquarters to help prevent a repeat of the 'spectacular' financial errors unearthed by auditors this week.
A Northern council may be forced to merge some of its housing companies after being hit by the government's retreat over the way funds are allocated across the country.
Britain's graffiti and vandalism-scarred railway stations are in a 'deplorable state' and the Department for Transport must take urgent action, senior backbench MPs are demanding.
A 'year zero' comprehensive spending review of all public sector spending in Northern Ireland has been announced by secretary of state Peter Hain. The review could lead to the abolition of some...
An NHS trust accused of 'serious lapses' in its care of older people has promised to do 'whatever it takes' to bring its standards up to acceptable levels.
The European Commission has described as 'artificial' the government's rationale for removing the right of some local government workers to claim full pension benefits at 60.
