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7 Feb 02
Just 65% of the public are happy with the overall service provided by their local authority, according to government data.
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7 Feb 02
Prisoners in jail for non-violent crimes may be allowed out on weekdays to work and to see their families under prison reforms announced by Home Secretary David Blunkett on February 4.
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7 Feb 02
Wendy Thomson's Office of Public Service Reform is to carry out a review of the willingness of government departments to let councils enjoy the new autonomy Stephen Byers promised them in his recent...
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31 Jan 02
The chair of Localis, the new think-tank founded by Tory councillors, has pledged to enhance local democracy.
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31 Jan 02
As many as 2 million bus journeys will be scrapped in the new financial year unless central government makes a cash injection of £10m, local authority transport officials have warned.
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31 Jan 02
The Local Government Association has vowed to 'fight on' in its battle to win more resources after the government published its 'disappointing' final finance settlement for local government.
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31 Jan 02
One of Labour's flagship public-private partnership companies may be forced to pay compensation to the government after the failure of a high-profile web project for the Public Records Office.
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31 Jan 02
Local authorities will finally be given powers to invest in money market funds in a shake-up to be announced by ministers shortly.
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31 Jan 02
Health Secretary Alan Milburn this week hammered home the prime minister's backing for NHS workers, claiming that staff, patients and the government were on the same side.
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31 Jan 02
Town hall drama queens are to be tutored in how to play to the gallery, in a move sure to provoke hisses from officers everywhere.
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31 Jan 02
Senior backbench MPs have condemned the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for secrecy and obfuscation over its handling of the crisis-ridden Millennium Dome project.
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31 Jan 02
Industrial action by tax officials is threatening to throw the Inland Revenue into chaos as the deadline for 9 million self-assessment tax returns passes this week
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31 Jan 02
Senior mandarins are increasingly confident of heading off the unwelcome spectre of a business leader being imposed as civil service chief when Sir Richard Wilson retires in August.
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31 Jan 02
Agriculture Secretary Margaret Beckett will try to convince angry farmers this week that government proposals for wholesale change are the only way ahead for an industry that is in freefall.
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31 Jan 02
A cash-strapped local authority has denied it is sending its senior managers on an awayday simply to indulge in yoga, meditation and water aerobics. Isle of Wight Council insists it is trying to...
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31 Jan 02
Birmingham City Council's leader, Sir Albert Bore, will be elected president of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) next week, Public Finance has learnt.
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31 Jan 02
The Association of Police Authorities has attacked the government's Police Reform Bill for undermining local policing and threatening 'meaningful modernisation'.
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31 Jan 02
Government officials are considering a fundamental reorganisation of police pensions after it was revealed that the total liability for English and Welsh forces may have leapt to £36bn.
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31 Jan 02
Housing associations will be able to apply for a share of a £300m renewal fund under a programme announced this week by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Bank of Scotland.
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31 Jan 02
A backlash against audit and inspection may be gathering force. New studies just published in the US say league tables for hospitals and schools can push up spending while reducing quality of service...
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31 Jan 02
The NHS Counter Fraud Service expects to have recovered £12m paid out in fake claims by the end of the financial year, the Department of Health has said.
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24 Jan 02
The 24-hour health service helpline NHS Direct has 'saved' up to £50m a year by reducing the pressure on GPs and casualty departments, the National Audit Office said this week.
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24 Jan 02
Dentists face an Office of Fair Trading inquiry amid increasing anxiety about surgeries rejecting new NHS patients.
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24 Jan 02
Local government employers have slated the trade unions' pay demand and warned that it could make many authorities' in-house services too expensive to run.
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24 Jan 02
Scottish health unions have called for an investigation into a possible link between poor hygiene practices in hospitals and the rapid spread of a stomach virus across Scottish wards.
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