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6 Dec 01
Education and social services are in line for a budget increase of at least 4% in next year's finance settlement for local authorities.
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6 Dec 01
The Benefits Payment Card was 'one of the biggest IT failures in the public sector' and wasted £1bn, according to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
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6 Dec 01
Birmingham City Council (BCC) has been hauled over the coals for its 'poor' administration of benefits and 'very weak' attempts at countering fraud.
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6 Dec 01
Chancellor Gordon Brown's scenario for revitalised health spending including an instant £1bn boost was designed to bring certainty and clarity to the argument over funding.
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6 Dec 01
Senior management at London Underground conceded this week that final contracts on the public-private partnership for the Tube, already two years late, could be subject to further delays.
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6 Dec 01
A backbench MP has accused the government of 'rigging the figures' in an attempt to push through more public-private partnerships.
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6 Dec 01
Home Secretary David Blunkett has locked horns with the police by pledging to subject the force to greater scrutiny in a bid to raise standards.
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6 Dec 01
Public sector unions have reacted furiously to the Department of Health's plans to link up with Britain's largest private sector provider.
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6 Dec 01
Almost two-thirds of public sector organisations fear they will be unable to afford the next round of pay increases, according to Public Finance 's latest survey.
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6 Dec 01
Private companies must be allowed to absorb swathes of the public sector if service improvements are to be achieved, a former Treasury mandarin has claimed.
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6 Dec 01
Labour's second local government white paper, to be unveiled next week, looks set to leave councils disappointed and frustrated.
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6 Dec 01
Vulnerable children and adults are being let down by failures in local authorities' transport services, the Audit Commission said this week.
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29 Nov 01
Jack McConnell's ruthless Cabinet reshuffle is a political gamble which could rebound on Scotland's new first minister if his inexperienced appointees fail to deliver, according to a leading...
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29 Nov 01
The government has suspended the Individual Learning Accounts scheme two weeks ahead of schedule after police made 39 arrests in connection with alleged fraud and theft.
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29 Nov 01
Rents levied by councils and housing associations are to be capped at £100 per week to protect tenants from the most severe impact of restructuring.
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29 Nov 01
A senior business leader has accused the National Audit Office of failing to play its full part in improving standards in public services.
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29 Nov 01
A promising start, but must try harder: that is the message from education professionals to the secretary of state Estelle Morris after her government's long-awaited Education Bill was published last...
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29 Nov 01
The Welsh Assembly's finance minister has defended in resolute terms the decision to 'rebadge' Best Value and dilute the role of external inspection in the principality.
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29 Nov 01
No attempt will be made to reform housing benefit until clear progress is made on rent restructuring, registered social landlords have been told.
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29 Nov 01
Bob Kiley, the transport commissioner for London, told Public Finance this week that the proposed controversial public-private partnership for the Tube was close to falling through.
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29 Nov 01
Local authorities are to be given clear guidance from the government on how much low-cost housing they should demand from developers under the system of 'planning gain'.
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29 Nov 01
Regional rail services look set to move back into public sector control with ministers preparing to give major cities a key role in managing local train networks.
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29 Nov 01
Civil servants across Whitehall are confused about who their 'customers' are, with many considering ministers their main focus for policy, a government-sponsored report reveals.
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29 Nov 01
The chief executive of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council has accused the Audit Commission of costing the taxpayer 'hundreds of thousands of pounds by producing 'unusable' inspection reports.
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29 Nov 01
Lottery funding body Sport England this week hit back at claims that its former chief executive received a 'secret' payoff of £500,000 when he left his post in June.
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