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25 Jan 01
Cemeteries, it appears, have become perilous places. According to the Association of Burial Authorities, the problem is the gravestones themselves: one in ten, it says, is a public danger. Crumbling...
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18 Jan 01
More than 40% of government services are now available electronically, and this figure is set to reach 75% by 2002, according to statistics released this week by the Cabinet Office. This puts...
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11 Jan 01
Local authority and NHS leaders this week called on the government to give district councils the right to scrutinise local health services.
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11 Jan 01
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has vehemently rejected suggestions that he is about to agree a compromise with the government over its controversial plans to partially privatise the Tube.
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11 Jan 01
Unison has agreed to suspend strike action in Scottish local authorities after securing a number of 'guarantees' from employers which could lead to a £5 an hour minimum wage for workers.
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11 Jan 01
Public Finance readers who know their ISPs from their HTMLs will be keen to take part in a major analysis of electronic government being undertaken by the magazine. They will also get the chance to...
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4 Jan 01
The government has denied that schools around the country are suffering from teacher 'famine'
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4 Jan 01
London local authorities are to demand emergency funds to support refugees amid signs that the government's national dispersal scheme is faltering
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4 Jan 01
Plans by four councils to experiment with all-postal ballots to increase voter turnout at local elections could be scuppered by the imminent General Election
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4 Jan 01
Staff at the London Borough of Hackney are to escalate their industrial action against the drastic cuts the council has drawn up to tackle its financial crisis
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4 Jan 01
Local authorities hoping arm's length management companies will prove an attractive alternative to the wholesale transfer of council housing may face a tortuous journey setting one up
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4 Jan 01
Health Secretary Alan Milburn announced an £87.5m boost for cancer care this week
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4 Jan 01
A year-long mass vaccination programme that cost £20m has prevented 50 deaths from meningitis C and almost completely eradicated the disease, the Department of Health said this week
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4 Jan 01
Unison, Scotland's largest public service union, has launched an attack on the Scottish Executive's plans to introduce competition to the water industry
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4 Jan 01
Police authorities are warning of a tight year ahead despite the seemingly generous 10% funding increase announced in November
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4 Jan 01
Andrew Foster has received a knighthood in the New Year's Honours List
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14 Dec 00
A registered social landlord placed under supervision by the Housing Corporation is being provided with an overdraft guarantee to protect tenants while it seeks a new partner.
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14 Dec 00
The Scottish Executive has pledged to improve its budget process following a report by an influential committee of MSPs voicing 'serious concern' over the arrangements for the scrutiny of spending...
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14 Dec 00
Trade union demands for a £1,000 pay rise for every council employee in England and Wales would cost local authorities £800m per year, according to their representative body.
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14 Dec 00
Local authorities were due to discover this week how much they will be able to spend on housing under a new system of capital allocations.
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14 Dec 00
The largest tax cuts in the history of the Irish state were announced last week by finance minister Charlie McCreevy.
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14 Dec 00
Tony Blair's targets for the electronic delivery of public services are unlikely to be met, according to a survey of Public Finance readers.
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14 Dec 00
A cross-party committee of MPs has slammed Railtrack's management of the rail network and castigated its 'totally inadequate' supervision of safety procedures in a damning report published on...
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14 Dec 00
An extra 39,000 recruits will be needed to meet the government's target of a net gain of 20,000 nurses in England by 2004, the Royal College of Nursing said this week.
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7 Dec 00
Scotland's top public servant, Muir Russell, will not face sanctions despite a highly critical report from the audit committee, the Scottish Executive said this week.