David James, the troubleshooter drafted in by the Conservative Party to identify possible Whitehall efficiency savings, is likely to make recommendations that would modify the way future Tory...
Cuts to jobs and services are on the way unless the government abandons plans to cap authorities, ministers have been warned, as those in the firing line submitted last-ditch appeals against the...
Student nurses who are not up to the job are still passing their courses because some examiners are too frightened to fail them, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Leading think-tanks and lobby groups this week intensified their opposition to the government's use of public subsidies to support arms dealers in the wake of a damning report by MPs.
Anti-mafia laws used in the US are to be copied in Northern Ireland to tackle extortion rackets in public sector building projects, the government has announced.
Prison Service staff regularly suffer from stress, anxiety and depression during the course of their work, leading to sickness absence rates higher than the national average, according to the...
The government last week launched a crackdown on so-called health tourism, unveiling plans to deny almost all NHS treatment to foreign visitors and failed asylum seekers.
Reverend Andrew McLellan, Scotland's chief inspector of prisons, has issued another scathing report on Peterhead prison, accusing it of failing to address the criticisms in his previous report.
The Home Office should take advantage of the opportunities presented by the Lyons review and move significant numbers of staff out of central London, a senior MP has urged.
Ambitious plans to use on-line auctions to save £200m on procurement contracts over three years have stalled, throwing into doubt the government's drive to slash billions of pounds from public sector...
Auditor-general Sir John Bourn has backed the European Court of Auditors in its view that the timetable for reform of the European Union's accounting procedures is over-ambitious.
The prospect of fire strikes flared up again this week as the Fire Brigades Union agreed to suspend its conference and pull out of the proposed modernisation programme.
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.