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...
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Housing associations have withdrawn their objections to a government scheme for extending home ownership after ministers gave them guarantees over rent income and protection for tenants.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.
Internet-based information about public services could encourage social exclusion and segregation, research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found.
The coalition of charities acting on behalf of older people has reacted angrily to the government's watering down of the Office of Fair Trading's recommendations to give elderly care home residents a...
An extra £65m is to be spent on health centres, clinics and other primary care facilities in Scotland, First Minister Jack McConnell announced this week.
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.
Cash raised by a private consortium to finance the extended Channel Tunnel rail link must be classed as government borrowing, the Office for National Statistics has insisted.
The new licensing regime has been condemned as a 'shambles' by industry representatives as the government's own estimates suggest that at least 30% of businesses will miss the August 6 deadline.
A small rise in the number of playing fields in England is not enough to mask the dramatic loss in facilities that has taken place over the past 13 years, sports campaigners said this week.
A parliamentary committee has been urged to hold an inquiry into a £160m Private Finance Initiative project for two Glasgow hospitals that was awarded to the 'preferred bidder' in the absence of any...
Birmingham City Council has this week confirmed that it will offer emergency loans to uninsured residents whose properties were damaged by the tornado that tore through the city on July 28.
