James Strachan is to leave the Audit Commission later this month following controversy over last month's Comprehensive Performance Assessment results, it has been announced.
England's councils met the government's ambitious target to 'e-enable' their main services by the end of 2005, according to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Audit Scotland has published new guidance on the issues and risks faced by public bodies in the latest stage of its efforts to modernise the scrutiny process.
Local authorities remain on course to meet their Gershon efficiency targets for 2005/06 with just three months of this financial year remaining, the latest analysis from the Office of the Deputy...
Private developers bidding for grant to build new homes have had difficulty demonstrating that their bids represented value for money, the Housing Corporation said this week.
The Health & Safety Executive and Environment Agency began a thorough investigation this week into the explosion and fire at Britain's fifth-largest oil depot at Buncefield in Hertfordshire.
The time is ripe for a wide-ranging debate on the case for devolving more powers to councils, Sir Michael Lyons said this week as he issued the interim report of his inquiry into local government.
The Ministry of Defence plans to reduce the number of performance indicators that determine payments made to Private Finance Initiative contractors, Public Finance has learnt.
Patients are 25% more likely to develop post-operative complications after being treated in one of the new privately run treatment centres than in their NHS equivalents, clinical directors claim.
The NHS has two years to implement the government's radical market and choice reforms or else risk undermining the 'founding values' of a free service based on need, Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt...
Northern Ireland's largest road scheme is the main element of an ambitious programme to regenerate the province's second city of Derry, secretary of state Peter Hain has announced.
Town and county hall leaders have accepted they need to work with the funding settlement announced last week but have appealed to ministers not to blame tax rises on high-spending councils.
The Department for Work and Pensions this week released details of the job cuts it has overseen as part of the Gershon review totals that surpass figures in the 2005 Pre-Budget Report.
More than a quarter of care homes do not have enough staff and about half do not carry out mandatory security checks on new employees, the Commission for Social Care Inspection revealed this week.
Ministers are being challenged to commit themselves to a major increase in social housing after new figures showed the number of families without permanent homes still exceeds 100,000.
Health minister Lord Warner stunned delegates at the Healthcare Financial Management Association annual conference by blaming the health service's financial problems on managers.
The chair of the Revenue and Customs department this week revealed he has no idea how much fraud has occurred in the government's flagship tax credits system but estimates suggest that hundreds of...
Councils' scrutiny committees are likely to be transformed into 'local area select committees' under proposals to place Local Strategic Partnerships at the centre of service delivery, Phil Woolas has...
