The architect of Whitehall's attempt to broaden the skills base of the civil service has warned potential mandarins that the standard for senior posts will be higher than ever in future.
The government's education plans for its third term will threaten working relations between schools and local government, teaching leaders warned this week.
Local government employers have proposed a radical overhaul of council sickness management, including reducing the length of time that staff can receive full pay while absent from work.
Senior civil servants will shortly take legal advice over the Cabinet Office's plan to reform Whitehall pensions, amid growing concerns that proposed changes could breach human rights or sex...
Ealing council has accepted defeat in its battle to overturn its 'weak' rating in the Comprehensive Performance Assessment, after the Audit Commission won a Court of Appeal ruling this week.
English local authorities are targeting adult social services and corporate activities in their drive to meet the £6.45bn efficiency target set by Sir Peter Gershon, a study has found.
The body charged with overhauling the quality of school meals met for the first time this week to begin work on developing minimum nutritional standards.
NHS managers have hit back at suggestions that they should be held responsible for lapses in hospital hygiene that lead to higher rates of infections such as MRSA.
NHS organisations must show they are tackling health inequalities or risk receiving a lower performance rating, the Healthcare Commission said this week.
Council leaders met ministers in the new government for the first time this week just one day after a far-reaching programme of legislation was laid out in the Queen's Speech.
David Blunkett would face stern opposition from businesses if he introduced compulsory savings in response to the escalating retirement crisis, experts have warned.
Immunisation of all children in the UK against the hepatitis B virus would be more cost-effective than treating the thousands of patients who carry the virus, the British Medical Association said...
Advisers and policy specialists have joined Cabinet ministers on the Downing Street merry-go-round this week as Prime Minister Tony Blair builds his team for a third term.
The new Labour government needs to get a grip on spiralling public sector absence rates, which cost the economy more than £4bn last year, business leaders have urged.
New Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt is already under pressure from health service managers to maintain the record levels of NHS funding up to and beyond 2008.
