Public sector auditors will 'significantly reduce' their scrutiny of specific service areas to focus on organisations' corporate centres, under new principles published this week.
Inmates at Britain's largest women's prison are continuing to live in unacceptably dirty conditions, facing serial infestations of pigeons, insects and mice, according to a stinging report from the...
The current review of local government finance in Scotland must be conducted in concert with the wider reform of services, senior public finance officials have warned.
An independent audit of NHS progress under Labour has put into perspective emotive headlines about the health service, the NHS Confederation said this week.
Financially strong NHS foundation trusts will be able to borrow up to 40% of the value of their assets under a new borrowing regime published by their regulator this week.
District councils in Northern Ireland could be reduced from 26 to seven and given new legal powers under proposals published by the Review of Public Administration.
Housing will face an extremely tough Spending Review in 2006 unless it gets into the habit of making year-on-year efficiency gains, Simon Ridley, head of housing at the Treasury, told the National...
Work and Pensions Secretary Alan Johnson will chair a pensions summit next week, beginning the fresh negotiations over retirement plans promised to public sector unions following this week's...
Social landlords in the Southwest and East of England will be the main winners over the next two years after the government announced regional housing allocations totalling £5.5bn.
The government's election supremo, Alan Milburn, will reveal the full cost to taxpayers of his Cabinet role following an approach from the National Audit Office.
Further education colleges will discuss the extension of the two-tier workforce agreement to their sector but have given no commitment on implementation, their representative body has told Public...
Government promises of a radical shift towards local accountability rang hollow this week after Nick Raynsford moved to cap nine authorities deemed to have set excessive council tax increases.
People will no longer languish in 'dead-end' jobs, the education secretary promised this week as she unveiled plans to extend skills training across the entire workforce.
The record equal pay settlement at North Cumbria Acute NHS Trust is 'unlikely to be replicated elsewhere', employers have warned, despite Unison this week gearing up for the prospect of similar...
