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25 Nov 99
The influential Performance and Innovation Unit (PIU) at the Cabinet Office is to investigate which public services can be delivered electronically and to examine the respective roles of both the...
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25 Nov 99
Seventeen local authorities placed under 'special measures' by the government have complained that they were treated unfairly by being named and shamed by social care minister John Hutton.
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25 Nov 99
The government has published the bill detailing its move to resource accounting, describing the changes as the 'biggest reform and modernisation programme since the Gladstone era'.
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25 Nov 99
A south London housing association is about to become the first registered social landlord (RSL) to outsource its finance department.
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25 Nov 99
Housing maintenance was this week placed ahead of long-term management improvements when local authorities were given an extra £67m to spend on council house repairs next year.
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18 Nov 99
The government will put local government political reorganisation on the fast track next week when it publishes the bill that will pave the way for directly elected mayors.
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18 Nov 99
The Local Government Association has accused education minister Estelle Morris of 'scaremongering' after she warned that a further 15 local authorities might have their services privatised in a drive...
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18 Nov 99
Legislation that will pave the way for the setting up of the new body to promote the Private Finance Initiative, Partnerships UK (Puk), was published this week after the Queen's Speech.
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18 Nov 99
The health service is being urged to reduce its deficit next year, even if that means postponing initiatives and cutting other services, finance managers said this week.
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18 Nov 99
An improvement agency covering the whole of the public sector in Scotland could be set up, following the publication next month of a report by the Best Value Taskforce.
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18 Nov 99
The National Audit Office has reiterated its support for considered risk-taking and experimentation by those working in the public sector.
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18 Nov 99
Find out what the people think, and pay attention: that's the message the Audit Commission is trying to get across to public bodies.
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18 Nov 99
In just over a month, Scotland will have its first auditor general.
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18 Nov 99
Ofsted is to overhaul its inspection regime to crack down on 'coasting schools' while continuing to root out those that are failing.
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18 Nov 99
The chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality has lambasted councils for their 'shameful' race relations record.
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18 Nov 99
The government's crackdown on fraud in the National Health Service started in earnest this week with new powers for the NHS Tribunal to disqualify practitioners who have committed fraud.
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18 Nov 99
The chief secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Smith, is to create a series of Service Delivery Agreements spanning the whole of government, he reveals in this week's Public Finance .
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18 Nov 99
The new team to promote the Private Finance Initiative will help councils overcome any skill shortages that may stop them pressing ahead with schemes, finance directors have been told.
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18 Nov 99
Housing associations in London have been accused of 'ghettoising the poor' by allocating most of their homes to the unemployed.
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18 Nov 99
Rural districts are likely to benefit hugely from radical changes in the way Scotland's 15 health boards are funded. But the new system is not likely to be implemented before 2001/02, it emerged this...
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18 Nov 99
Two senior government ministers have set out to find a cure for the plague of form-filling and local government is due to be one of the chief beneficiaries.
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18 Nov 99
On-line news and information services targeted at government have been granted their first framework agreements by the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency. The five-year deals with the...
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18 Nov 99
Auditors this week demanded that European commissioners seize a 'historic opportunity' and overhaul working practices in the European Union to stop the annual haemorrhaging of millions of pounds.
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11 Nov 99
The highest-ranking Asian civil servant in the Cabinet Office has won an award recognising his achievements in the public sector.
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11 Nov 99
The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions comes under fire this week from an influential committee of MPs for failing to make the most of the sale of Railfreight.
25 Nov 99The influential Performance and Innovation Unit (PIU) at the Cabinet Office is to investigate which public services can be delivered electronically and to examine the respective roles of both the...
