Former Labour minister Chris Leslie took over as the director of the New Local Government Network this week, promising to give local government a bigger say in the national policy debate.
A council-owned housing company in Nottinghamshire risks losing £62m after becoming the first arm's-length management organisation to receive no stars from inspectors.
A leading race-relations expert has called for high standards of political accountability following the London bombings amid threats of an extremist backlash.
Northern Ireland's health service is set for major reorganisation, following the publication of its version of the Wanless review, conducted by Professor John Appleby, health economist at the King's...
A Scottish council is facing a claim of up to £1m from the housing association it set up to take over its houses under the government's voluntary transfer scheme.
Sefton Borough Council this week launched an inquiry into a controversial housing transfer ballot after allegations of corruption, bribery and intimidation.
The Department of Health has written an urgent letter to strategic health authorities urging them to stop drawing up commissioning plans for when primary care trusts end their provider role in 2008.
Public sector trades unions held pre-emptive talks this week over the thorny issue of pensions amid growing fears that they could fail to agree reform principles with ministers in advance of more...
Sixty years of the welfare state have failed to ensure that those in most need of public services have adequate access to them, leading to 'wide and persisting inequality', research has found.
A deal between unions and contractors is 'imminent' in the long-running row over private firms' refusal to offer the Agenda for Change pay and conditions deal to staff working in the NHS, Public...
A new tool to measure customer satisfaction across the public sector is not a way of introducing more target-setting by the back door, Cabinet Office minister John Hutton has promised.
Plans to publish league tables showing the efficiency of housing associations and developers that receive government grant have been scrapped by the Housing Corporation.
Audit Commission inspectors have promised to discover more about the work of housing associations after just two-thirds of landlords said they were satisfied with a new inspection system.
The Health and Safety Executive is to encourage more public bodies to sign up to a new occupational risk index to help combat rising insurance premiums.
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has asked local government pension funds to recalculate the disputed cost of revoking last April's increase in the scheme's retirement age to 65.
Business leaders have dismissed regional development agencies as irrelevant to the success of their companies, saying they do not understand their role or even why they exist.
Housing associations have withdrawn their objections to a government scheme for extending home ownership after ministers gave them guarantees over rent income and protection for tenants.
As students celebrated record high grades in their A-level exam results this week, schools minister Lord Adonis denied that the examination system was being dumbed down.
