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13 Jan 00
A local authority insisted this week that it had taken steps to reduce stress among employees after paying a record £203,000 to a former warden at a site for gypsies.
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13 Jan 00
The benefits system is still losing billions of pounds of public money due to fraud and inefficiency in spite of attempts to improve the service, the Commons Public Accounts Committee has found.
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13 Jan 00
University lecturers are complaining that inequalities in funding mean that the most disadvantaged students are getting the worst deal.
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13 Jan 00
The Department of Health has signalled a cautious start to its latest modernisation initiative, confirming that only 15 primary care trusts will be formed this year. Thirteen PCTs will be launched on...
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13 Jan 00
Scottish finance minister Jack McConnell this week underlined the Scottish Executive's commitment to continuing with PFI and other public-private partnerships. But he added that the system was not...
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13 Jan 00
The Private Finance Initiative is expensive and inflexible and deflects from government priorities, a House of Commons Treasury committee was told this week.
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13 Jan 00
Future London mayors were warned this week not to exceed their powers by attempting to snatch responsibilities away from borough councils.
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13 Jan 00
A Best Value partnership to provide audit services at Birmingham City Council means that auditors from the council and the private sector will work side by side.
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6 Jan 00
Local education authorities that refuse to take bullying seriously could face increasing legal action from the victims, a leading teaching union has warned.
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6 Jan 00
The Treasury wants members of its public services directorate to shadow head teachers, NHS executives and senior local government officials to establish a better grasp of government spending...
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6 Jan 00
The fate of the controversial Private Finance Initiative scheme at London's Pimlico school is likely to be resolved in the next two weeks after five years of acrimony.
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6 Jan 00
The Scottish Executive is facing a showdown with Westminster next week over the treatment of asylum seekers. Home Secretary Jack Straw is anxious to persuade Scotland to accept an extra 1,000 asylum...
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6 Jan 00
Many so-called regeneration projects are, in effect, schemes to help manage the irreversible decline of neighbourhoods caused by low demand for social housing, according a study commissioned by the...
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6 Jan 00
Police funding must be doubled for the next three years to avoid cuts in staffing, police authorities in England and Wales will tell the Home Office next month.
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16 Dec 99
The Treasury has blocked key parts of a radical Whitehall reform programme drawn up by senior mandarins in a last-minute wrangle over cash.
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16 Dec 99
Scottish Homes is being turned into an agency of the Scottish Executive in a move to bring together the rights of tenants living in council and housing association properties.
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16 Dec 99
Hundreds of teaching jobs are at risk following the ending of Section 11 grants to local authorities. The grants are paid for teachers to help residents for whom English is a foreign language.
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16 Dec 99
Contractors bidding for Private Finance Initiative contracts in the health service face an extra round of competition following the introduction of long-awaited guidance by Health Secretary Alan...
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16 Dec 99
Acute shortages of social housing and the unwillingness of some councils to provide accommodation for ex-prisoners are adding to the likelihood of people reoffending after they leave prison, says a...
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16 Dec 99
Local government does not have a single black finance director, the Employers' Organisation has found.
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16 Dec 99
Schools minister Estelle Morris has conceded that the government is creating and promoting a market for the private sector to take over the running of failing schools.
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16 Dec 99
The first of a rolling series of Audit Commission and Social Services Inspectorate reports into Welsh social services have produced a winner and a loser.
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16 Dec 99
Statutory guidance for implementing Best Value was published for all local authorities this week.
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16 Dec 99
Britain's largest council, Birmingham City, this week elected an all-Labour Cabinet team as political reforms at the authority gathered pace.
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16 Dec 99
Local authorities will have to bear an increasing amount of the cost of Best Value inspection, which could rise to more than £50m a year.
13 Jan 00A local authority insisted this week that it had taken steps to reduce stress among employees after paying a record £203,000 to a former warden at a site for gypsies.
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