Ian Mackintosh, current financial manager for South Asia at the World Bank, has been appointed to succeed Mary Keegan as chair of the UK's Accounting Standards Board.
The planned new children's commissioner will have the power to order investigations without first seeking authorisation from ministers after all, Margaret Hodge has told MPs.
The stalemate over pay and conditions in local government has been broken with employers and unions agreeing to consult on an improved 8.9% three-year pay deal.
All local public services should be scrutinised by 'select committees' of councillors to ensure that unelected bodies are held accountable to the public, a think-tank has recommended.
Senior civil servants at two key departments are struggling to meet Chancellor Gordon Brown's dramatic efficiency targets, putting in doubt Whitehall's ability to deliver the wider Gershon agenda,...
The Local Government Association is to reform radically its member structure, replacing its 'static and old-fashioned' committees with cross-cutting boards in an attempt to widen its influence on...
To lose one key policy adviser may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose four looks like either carelessness or preparation for a change in leadership. Either way, a clear-out among Tony Blair's...
Mental illness costs Northern Ireland almost £3bn a year more than its health and social care budget according to the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health.
An influential Scottish Parliament committee has rejected local authority claims that cash generated by efficiency savings should be reinvested by individual councils.
The Scottish Executive has again missed its targets for paying bills on time, leaving millions of pounds outstanding, according to figures disclosed this week.
Whitehall's chief statistician has called for greater autonomy from parliamentarians in the wake of accusations that ministers have too much control over the way civil service data is used.
The government's mental health czar, Louis Appleby, has been given extended powers to cover services for older people and for children and adolescents.
Senior private sector figures have pointed the finger at government organisations and blamed them for refusing to make information on Private Finance Initiative deals available to the public.
Camden council has stepped up its campaign against record industry giants' illegal fly-posting by seeking an interim court order preventing companies from flouting the law while it awaits a landmark...
The massive increase in house-building recommended by government advisers could have a devastating impact on the environment, says a little-publicised report.
The government is steeling itself to lose control of large cities and towns in its traditional northern heartlands when the urban centres outside London go to the polls next week.
Frantic weekend activity was not enough to ensure that the official deadline for despatch of ballot papers was met by all the councils participating in the government's postal voting experiment.
Professor Ivor Crewe, the president of Universities UK, has warned ministers that the government's consultation on expanding university access is still too narrow in scope.