The head of a powerful construction consortium has warned the Office of Government Commerce that plans to reform the Private Finance Initiative are flawed.
Half of all crime reduction partnerships examined by the National Audit Office have been delayed by up to a year due to bureaucracy and might not achieve their 2002/05 targets.
Sixteen 'arm's-length' NHS bodies, including those concerned with fraud, pensions and estate management, will cease to function next year, it emerged this week.
Thousands of public service jobs in Scotland were in jeopardy this week after Finance Minister Tom McCabe released details of the Scottish Executive's long-awaited efficiency review aimed at saving £...
Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has asked its regulator for 'time and space' to implement its financial recovery plan after its overspend was projected at more than £11m.
Charles Clarke has moved to protect degree courses of 'national strategic importance' in the wake of Exeter University's controversial decision to scrap its chemistry department.
The civil service needs to ditch its 'inherent Victorian values' if it is to better formulate and implement policies in the interests of voters, an outrider for public sector reform has warned.
More than a third of all local authorities and three-quarters of county councils are using their new prudential borrowing powers, reveals a survey by the Local Government Association.
Stripping councils of their education funding powers will leave schools isolated and hinder the drive towards more integrated services, local government leaders warned this week.
Housing minister Keith Hill this week responded to private sector calls to boost the lethargic social housing Private Finance Initiative market with a programme to help tenants 'get better homes...
Councils need to focus on building up effective relationships with their partners as 'new localism' plans move forward over the next few months, according to the Improvement and Development Agency.
Senior public sector figures have spelled out their disappointment with the government after this year's Queen's Speech failed to outline an overarching vision for the future of public services.
Local authorities across the country are to be given powers already available in London to remove and destroy abandoned vehicles dumped in back streets.
The Serious Fraud Office has stepped in to investigate allegations of irregularities in the award of building contracts at Queen's Medical Centre Nottingham University Hospital Trust.
Plans to save the NHS £220m over the next ten years by outsourcing back-office functions rely on a heavy take-up of the scheme, Public Finance has learned.
Small companies are missing out on billions of pounds in public sector business each year because of the widespread myth that only large firms can deliver best value, their representative body claims...
The vast majority of patients in Scotland are satisfied with the service they receive from the NHS, though they are concerned that the public have little or no influence over the way it is run.
Northern Ireland's public bodies are facing a growing financial crisis with all of the province's five education and library boards and some health trusts looking at large deficits unless they are...
Inspectors at the Health and Safety Executive have delivered an overwhelming vote of no confidence in their management board as it prepares to tighten the criteria for accident investigations.
