Senior civil servants have called on the Home Office to take a 'robust approach' in dealing with senior official Louise Casey, following her ill-considered comments on antisocial behaviour policies.
Financial penalties will be imposed on Northern Ireland health trusts that do not treat patients within target times, health minister Shaun Woodward has announced.
Patients are willing to ignore the government's flagship choice initiative in favour of receiving better hospital care, according to a report published this week.
The Department for Transport should look beyond the civil service to ensure value for money in the train industry following the abolition of the Strategic Rail Authority, MPs have said.
Sir Andrew Turnbull has warned senior civil servants to avoid implementing key IT projects at the same time, to improve the way that Whitehall handles major public service reforms.
The level of trust between government departments and charities needs to be strengthened so that a genuine partnership between the two sectors can develop, a spending watchdog urged this week.
The government's push to improve neighbourhoods will not be carried out at the expense of councils, local government minister Phil Woolas claimed this week.
Northern Ireland is to adopt either a full or partial ban on smoking in public places, Health Minister Shaun Woodward has announced, in a speech in which he branded much of the
Unison has called on the government to develop guidelines on safe staffing levels in hospital wards after a survey revealed that nurses head the public sector league for sick days.
One of the few contractors to show interest in the Private Finance Initiative in housing has blamed the government and local authorities for its limited success.
Any attempt to soften the blow of road pricing by cutting taxes risks overturning the government's efforts to comply with the Kyoto protocol, a leading transport expert has warned
Small and medium-sized businesses are winning an increasing share of the lucrative public sector IT market as a result of government efforts to encourage a wider range of suppliers, new research has...
Pension reform returned to the top of the political agenda this week, but the government and public sector trade unions remained on a collision course over the issue.
Cabinet Secretary Sir Andrew Turnbull this week outlined Whitehall's latest campaign to improve civil service performance, relaunching a national academy that will train mandarins in the art of...
All NHS bodies have been challenged to reassess their financial management arrangements after government auditors this week criticised slipping standards.
The Scottish Executive has approved a buyout deal that will end a controversial £9.6m Private Finance Initiative contract to run an airport terminal in the Highlands.
