Primary care trusts will be forced to set up their own on-line booking services for hospital appointments to overcome GPs' reluctance and meet government targets on Patient Choice, their...
The Standards Board for England has hit back at radical proposals designed to transform the way it operates, claiming they could further erode public confidence in local government.
The Scottish committee of inquiry into the future of local government finance has stressed its independence from the Lyons review in England, raising the possibility that Scotland could embark on a...
Local government is being forced to choose between paying its staff equally or delivering essential services, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis claimed this week.
Audit Scotland has urged the Scottish Prison Service to carry out a detailed assessment of the £30m correctional programmes for prisoners, which accounted for 12% of the cost of operating its prisons...
Around 200 developers and other organisations have expressed an interest in bidding for grants to build social housing under a scheme due to get under way next month.
The extent to which ethnic groups have their differing needs met by public services is to be more closely monitored under a new race equality plan launched by the Home Office this week.
French government plans to review working practices, together with a number of pay disputes, have provoked a wave of strikes by public service workers across the country.
Unions are to challenge the government over a decision to exempt the higher and further education sectors from the 'two-tier' code to protect workers after reclassifying them as 'private sector'.
Town hall leaders are demanding urgent reform of the 'out of date and failing' council tax benefit regime, which they say penalises the very people it is supposed to help.
Hopes that the new education secretary would water down controversial government policies were dashed last week when Ruth Kelly nailed her reformist colours firmly to the mast.
Reform of public sector pensions looks set to destroy any hopes the government had of an easy ride up to the general election, with unions agreeing on a national day of campaigning next month.
Serious storms that battered Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north of England, leaving thousands of people without power, prompted an emergency statement from ministers this week.
The Department of Health has denied that ministers are postponing a key element of the NHS payment by results system because it could have put trusts' financial problems under the general election...
All public bodies should adopt the new code of governance for Britain's public services to clear up confusion over responsibilities, independent experts have said.
The Conservatives would demand £4.43bn in efficiency savings from local authorities, with Whitehall cuts yielding a further £2.3bn, they announced this week.
The Department for Work and Pensions is set to overhaul councils' benefits fraud targets following concerns that they are unachievable and could drag down authorities' Comprehensive Performance...
Direct funding would lead to fresh financial turmoil in schools, creating an annual national shortfall of £200m, local government leaders warned this week.
