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.
The 'bonfire of the quangos' in Wales is likely to weaken staff morale and could affect performance during the transition period, according to the chair of one of the bodies facing abolition.
Ministers will give councils extra financial support but will couple it with widespread capping to avoid big council tax increases in an election year, local government insiders believe.
Millions of pounds in public subsidies may have been gifted to overseas firms that exaggerated regional job creation plans when investing in the UK, the author of a new study has claimed.
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.
The number of staff employed by Scottish local authorities has broken through the 250,000 barrier, provoking predictable claims of bureaucracy overload.
Six towns have been named as growth areas in a wide-ranging blueprint for planning across Wales announced by Finance and Local Government Minister Sue Essex.
Lone parents who rely on state benefits to top up their earnings are more likely to escape poverty than families where the main wage earner is on low pay, says new research.
More than two-thirds of social services departments in England are performing well but a minority are either failing to provide adequate services or lack the ambition to improve, the chief inspector...
Local authorities and primary care trusts will be in the vanguard of government plans to transform the NHS from a national sickness service to one that promotes health and wellbeing.
Ministers must face down fierce opposition to their pension proposals from public service unions before the general election, including calls for a national strike over plans to raise retirement ages.
The government should use next week's Queen's Speech to introduce legislation to halve the £730m councils spend on inspection and regulation, council leaders are urging.
Better links need to be established between education bodies and business if the quality of vocational courses is to be improved, according to the chief schools inspector.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has vetoed for a second time a £1bn plan to build a giant, privately-financed hospital in the capital's East End, leaving the project behind schedule and exposed to...
The draft civil service Bill, published in a consultation document this week, will help maintain the values and high standards of the civil service, the First Division Association said this week.
The Audit Commission has quashed speculation that it will include councils' response to freedom of information legislation in Comprehensive Performance Assessments.
