Spiralling public sector inflation is a deeper and more complex problem for local government than the council tax issue, the leader of Kent County Council said this week.
Senior MPs have expressed concerns that the Ministryof Defence is facing a cash crisis in the run up to this year's Spending Review, despite denials from the department's permanent secretary.
Ministers were motivated by political expediency when pushing through reforms to the way that £2bn of European Union agricultural subsidies are paid, according to MPs.
Ministers are celebrating after successfully banning the use of bed and breakfast accommodation for families with children beyond six-week emergency periods...
The rapid expansion in the NHS nursing workforce has been over-reliant on overseas recruitment and might not be sustainable in the long term, nursing leaders have warned.
The economic development agency Scottish Enterprise (SE) has been told to review its performance management system following criticisms of the way targets are set and monitored.
Business leaders have expressed scepticism about government plans to slash £20bn off the cost of running Whitehall, describing proposals as 'crude', and claiming that ministers could 'spin' success...
Scottish ministers have promised swift action following the publication of two damning reports criticising serious social care, health and policing failures in the Borders region.
Senior civil servants in Scotland are bracing themselves for criticisms of their handling of the controversial Holyrood parliament building project when public inquiry chair Lord Fraser of Carmyllie...
Local government unions have resolved to ratchet up their pay campaign by lobbying chief executives and councillors during the local elections, while balloting their members on the current 7% three-...
The CIPFA elections for 2004/05 have produced a more even gender balance to the institute's Council after the return of Jaki Salisbury and the election of Jane Cuthbertson.
Team spirit and cohesion were celebrated in this week's Public Finance Public Servants of the Year Awards even the individual winners drew attention to their importance. Editor Mike Thatcher...
School inspections should take into account external social and economic influences to give a more rounded picture of performance, according to a Commons' committee.
The number of Northern Ireland's local authorities is set to be cut from 26 to a maximum of nine as a result of the first proposals emerging from the province's Review of Public Administration.
The government is to give housing associations staged funding to take over council 'sink estates' as part of a package of measures announced this week to boost its decent homes standard.
Anne Chant, acting chair of the Inland Revenue, has committed the organisation to an 11-month deadline to improve its debt recovery procedures following revelations that billions of pounds are...
The government-backed project set up to inject £125m of public money into the voluntary sector will fail unless public sector agencies get on board, the head of the consortium charged with managing...
Local authorities could move to three-year budgets in the Spending Review after the prime minister promised schools longer-term financial planning this week.