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10 Jun 99
Training and Enterprise Councils face abolition in their present form, under government proposals to be published at the end of the month.
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10 Jun 99
The first takeover of one council-owned airport by another was confirmed this week when Manchester Airport successfully completed its purchase of Humberside International Airport.
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3 Jun 99
NHS managers are all too aware that there is rarely a moment to pause and take stock.
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3 Jun 99
The future of national pay bargaining for 1.6 million local government workers is up for grabs, following the launch of a three-month consultation by the Employers' Organisation.
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3 Jun 99
Changes to Britain's phone system which could end up costing councils hundreds of thousands of pounds were met this week with a collective shrug of the shoulders from the public sector.
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3 Jun 99
Planning regulations must be tightened up so that more people have the chance to rent or buy low-cost homes, ministers were told this week.
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3 Jun 99
Local Education Authorities found themselves in the government's sights again this week when Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped up the attack on spending on schools.
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3 Jun 99
The government admitted last week it is prepared to change the data protection laws if they obstruct its plans to modernise the delivery of public services.
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3 Jun 99
CIPFA is beginning the search for a new chief executive to replace David Adams, who will stand down when his contract expires next March.
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3 Jun 99
The Private Finance Initiative must be applied wholesale to the National Health Service to ensure as many people as possible are treated, according to shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe.
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27 May 99
The NHS is wasting up to £50m a year on private health care for mentally ill patients after closing nearly 10,000 psychiatric beds, health watchdog London Emergency Health has claimed. In a report...
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27 May 99
The government has admitted that half this year's funding increase for education will be swallowed up by the teachers' pay rise, leaving much less than expected for other improvements.
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27 May 99
Smokers and homeless people are being targeted as part of a drive to improve the health of some of the poorest areas in England.
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27 May 99
A star rating system similar to that used by hotels and restaurants is likely to be applied to local authorities as part of Best Value inspections of their services.
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27 May 99
Public service unions have ducked a confrontation over comments from the prime minister about the future of annual pay negotiations across the public sector.
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20 May 99
Health authorities in Wales will receive more than £2bn in 1999/2000 £193m more than last year, representing an increase of more than 10.2%.
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20 May 99
Customs & Excise has come under attack from a powerful House of Commons committee over its anti-drug smuggling operations.
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20 May 99
Local authorities in the north, the Midlands and Scotland will now be expected to absorb 20,000 or more refugees from the Kosovo war, it was revealed this week.
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20 May 99
The role of negotiating grants to the new Scottish assembly has been given to John Reid, who impressed Number 10 when transport minister by facing down protesting lorry-drivers angered by increases...
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20 May 99
Critics of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) have leapt on a National Audit Office report criticising the first major NHS hospital built under the policy.
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20 May 99
The Ministry of Defence suffers unnecessary problems disposing of redundant land and buildings because the government has not made the abolition of Crown immunity a top priority, according to...
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20 May 99
Comparisons between high and low-spending councils are misplaced and have little bearing on efficiency, according to the University of Loughborough.
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20 May 99
The Department of Health is planning to introduce money-back financial incentives for health authorities across the country as part of its crackdown on fraud in the National Health Service.
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20 May 99
Ministers announced this week that they are looking for 40 more councils to apply for Beacon status.
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20 May 99
Number 10 should force high-profile directly elected mayors on Britain's major cities regardless of the wishes of reluctant councils, a political reform group urged this week.
10 Jun 99Training and Enterprise Councils face abolition in their present form, under government proposals to be published at the end of the month.
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