Education employers have condemned a threat by teachers to mount a campaign of disruption if local education authorities go ahead with plans to introduce a six-term school year.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone will not hesitate to withhold more transport cash from the capital's boroughs if they fail to pursue policies in line with his objectives.
At least eight police forces, including Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, are in danger of receiving a 'poor' rating under the Home Office's new grading system for policing, due to be unveiled...
Councils in Scotland have come under pressure to explain why they have not cut council tax bills when total reserves are as high as £839m, or 9% of expenditure.
Teachers' leaders are pushing for reassurances that the proposed new 'short, sharp' school inspection regime will not lead to additional pressures on staff.
Lawyers for the Public and Commercial Services union have identified a test-case individual who will front their legal challenge to the Department for Work and Pensions' controversial pay deal.
The concept of 'choice' must be extended across Britain's public services to ensure the government's radical reforms are successful, according to leading thinkers from the two main parties.
Sir Andrew Turnbull, the head of the civil service, has rejected MPs' accusations of 'financial mismanagement' at the Cabinet Office following concerns raised by the National Audit Office.
Spending on economic development in Scotland has fallen as a share of the total Scottish budget in the period since devolution, a research report has disclosed.
For the first time, 18 teams have been selected as finalists for the Public Servant of the Year awards. The teams will join 21 individuals at the final ceremony in London next month.
Former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine has dismissed the office of London mayor as a 'non-job' insufficiently powerful to manage the economic changes likely to affect the capital over the...
A badly botched procurement deal has left the armed services with a £259m fleet of helicopters that can be flown only in clear weather and above 500 feet, the National Audit Office has found.
More than 100 defunct NHS sites across England are to be sold to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as part of a regeneration deal estimated to be worth £400m.
Public sector finance managers have given strong backing to the government's plans to relocate thousands of civil servants from London to the provinces as part of a multibillion pound efficiency
Social landlords need £8.4bn to be pumped into affordable housing during the next three years so they can build 140,000 new homes by 2008, the chancellor was told this week.