Trades Union Congress leader Brendan Barber has urged ministers to consider alternatives to slashing council workers' pension pots before proceeding with an overhaul of town hall retirement schemes...
North Cornwall District Council faces a repairs bill totalling millions of pounds following the flash floods that ripped through the village of Boscastle this week.
Northern Ireland's water service will be run by a government-owned company a GoCo similar to Royal Mail and British Nuclear Fuels, the province's regional development minister John Spellar has...
The troubled construction and engineering company Jarvis has lost a £174m public-private partnership contract for building and maintaining new schools in Scotland.
The poor quality of financial management across local government and police, fire and health services is a cause for concern, the Audit Commission's annual report reveals this week.
Pressure mounted on the government and NHS trusts this week as the British Medical Association claimed junior doctors were not alone in working longer hours than the limit set in the European Working...
The total value of government assets to be sold off in the next six years may exceed Gordon Brown's £30bn target, the man charged with finding the savings has told Public Finance .
Inequality has increased over the past decade despite government attempts to tackle social injustice, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research.
The Local Government Association 'pulled rank' during firefighters' pay negotiations, it emerged this week, prompting accusations of political interference and an inevitable ballot for industrial...
Investment of £50m in wave and tidal power announced this week could put Scotland on the high road to becoming a world leader in generating power from the sea, ministers claim.
Kingston-upon-Hull City Council must show 'genuine progress' against its corporate recovery plan when Audit Commission inspectors return there in October, the watchdog has warned.
Opposition to the Treasury's proposed cull of civil service staff will intensify at the Trades Union Congress's annual conference in Brighton next month, motions to the event indicate.
Social landlords that provide temporary accommodation have been assured that housing benefit will not be replaced with a new allowance paid directly to the tenant.
Puzzling omissions in new Financial Services Authority regulations have jeopardised arm's-length housing bodies' ability to provide insurance to thousands of tenants, it emerged this week.
