Wes Streeting has accused NHS trusts and integrated care boards of trying to cut their deficits too sharply, despite the government announcing last year that the latter must slash 50% of their...
The revelation that false information sourced from artificial intelligence was used by West Midlands Police to justify the decision to ban football fans from a match in England should heighten the...
The government has described its plan to boost the northern economy and raise living standards underpinned by a more reliable and frequent train service across major cities in the region as an...
Workers who lost their jobs and received unemployment benefits saw their spending decline by around 20% in the first few months, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The government’s chances of meeting its own target of building 1.5 million new homes by the end of the current parliamentary term have been rated as ‘close to zero’ by the Centre for Policy...
A traffic light system that shows how well councils fix potholes is aimed at encouraging councils to repair potholes more effectively and highlight best practice, and future funding will depend on...
Better communication to the public about the government’s priorities and how it intends to meet its objectives could prove the key to addressing public dissatisfaction with its performance.
Delays and poor service overseen by the Department for Work and Pensions are combining to push vulnerable people into poverty while they wait for payments, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
MPs will investigate the causes and effects of the growth in the number of young people not in employment, education or training, whose numbers have now reached five times higher than the average...
The predicted cost to business of the new Employment Rights Act has been slashed by 80% from £5bn to £1bn a year – or 0.1% of the UK’s total pay bill – following a series of concessions,...
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would see multi-academy trusts brought into the inspection system, in light with the...
A scathing Public Accounts Committee report has criticised the Ministry of Justice for significant contract management failings after it emerged the MoJ was spending £4m a year on an empty prison...
Delays in discharging patients are costing NHS Scotland an estimated £440m in hospital days alone, but the full financial impact wider on the health and social care system has yet to be quantified,...
The government’s decision on social rent convergence due this month could “lay the financial foundations” for building thousands of new council homes in the capital and stabilising social housing...
A £210m plan will be hoped to tackle the growing scourge of cyber threats, after the government admitted a radical shift in approach is required to protect critical national infrastructure, defend...
The new policing statement for 2026/27 has drawn criticism for a lack of detail and a failure to outline what the police funding and restructuring will look like in coming years.
The government’s provisional Local Government Finance Settlement for 2026/27 fails to offer enough clarity to councils about how rising demand and existing deficits will be funded, CIPFA has warned.
Mandatory housing targets for principal authorities, New Golden Rules for greenbelt development requiring developers to provide essential infrastructure for local communities, and an increased...
The government must address how it uses the Green Book to assess investment projects to make sure schemes outside the South East get their fair share of funding, a think-tank has said.
An investigation into the causes of record unemployment and economic inactivity among young people has been launched by the former health secretary Alan Milburn, who has promised to take a radical,...
Councils in county areas face a ‘cliff edge’ for economic growth funding next year as the government prepares to close its UK Shared Prosperity Fund, jeopardising their ability to support small...
Outdated IT systems and a lack of common data standards are hampering efforts to understand the costs of public services, according to a report from the Public Accounts Committee that calls for a...
