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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.
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11 Nov 99
Home Secretary Jack Straw has been forced to go back to the drawing board after it emerged that his draft Freedom of Information Bill contravened international agreements on the environment.
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11 Nov 99
The message from Liverpool this week was that the city of Derek Hatton, the Militant Tendency and local government anarchy is finally dead.
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11 Nov 99
Welsh health authorities and trusts face another year of deep cuts in services, despite receiving an extra £14m from the National Assembly.
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11 Nov 99
Housing associations are being given more freedom to spend grants which were initially tied up in properties that are disposed of or sold.
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11 Nov 99
A major boost to the Private Finance Initiative in housing came this week with the government's announcement of four PFI schemes, totalling £185m, for the refurbishment of council houses.
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11 Nov 99
The Prescription Pricing Authority has suggested setting aside its prescription backlog, wiping out two months' data, as one way of getting future prescribing information to health authorities and...
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11 Nov 99
Scottish council leaders have called for a fundamental review of performance indicators (PIs) after the Accounts Commission issued its latest set of criteria this week.
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11 Nov 99
The rateable values of properties in Scotland are set to rise by 13% while in England the increase could be 22%, a survey of work on next year's revaluation has shown.
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11 Nov 99
A simplification of the statutory capital controls framework for local authorities is needed, according to CIPFA.
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4 Nov 99
Ofsted will have no real difficulty in respect of the influx of private sector firms running schools, chief inspector Chris Woodhead said this week.
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4 Nov 99
Only a small number of primary care trusts (PCTs) may be formed next year, following the British Medical Association's insistence that the new bodies should receive support from at least two-thirds...
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4 Nov 99
As political pledges go, there are harder ones.
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4 Nov 99
Cabinet Office minister Ian McCartney was put in charge this week of spearheading attempts to prevent further failures in government IT contracts.
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4 Nov 99
The reputation of government executive agencies has been dealt another blow this week after auditor general Sir John Bourn accused the Courts Funds Office of financial mismanagement and losing track...
18 Nov 99The chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality has lambasted councils for their 'shameful' race relations record.
