-
1 Feb 01
Local government minister Hilary Armstrong is to send a seven-strong financial hit squad into the London Borough of Hackney to help the troubled authority deal with its budget deficit.
-
1 Feb 01
Andrew Pinder has been confirmed as the government's new e-envoy, the key post in driving through its ambitious UK online project.
-
1 Feb 01
Chancellor Gordon Brown could be sitting on an even bigger budget surplus than anticipated because government departments are not spending their allocations, according to the Institute for Fiscal...
-
1 Feb 01
Although local authority fraud is down for the first time in ten years, councils still face an uphill battle to control housing benefit fraud, the Audit Commission warned this week.
-
1 Feb 01
A last-minute £188m cash injection into this week's local government finance settlement may not be enough to head off mounting pay and service pressures, warn councils.
-
1 Feb 01
William Hague has promised that the next Conservative government would 'deregulate' schools and hospitals as part of a drive to boost standards in public services.
-
1 Feb 01
Ofsted chief inspector Mike Tomlinson adopted a new, conciliatory approach to local education authorities this week, despite the publication of a report that accuses LEAs of having little effect on...
-
1 Feb 01
The Welsh Assembly laid itself open to the risk of fraud by failing to perform the most basic accounting requirements, according to a scathing report this week from the National Audit Office.
-
25 Jan 01
Housing associations which raise substantial amounts of private investment must never forget their role as public sector bodies, their regulator warned this week. In his first major speech to the...
-
25 Jan 01
An 'apocalyptic' future awaits Scottish water authorities if forthcoming competition legislation does not protect them against the 'cherry-picking' of their lucrative industrial contracts, an...
-
25 Jan 01
A new magazine went on sale in British hospitals this week, with the aim of raising an extra £5m to make patients' stays more comfortable. The team behind feelgood hope that sales of their glossy mix...
-
25 Jan 01
Northern Ireland's finance and personnel committee is this week expected to propose an amendment to the province's bill for the introduction of resource accounting, to enable auditors to follow the...
-
25 Jan 01
London Mayor Ken Livingstone faces a showdown with the Greater London Assembly over his controversial budget after public clashes with members this week. Livingstone stood by his guns as he presented...
-
25 Jan 01
According to the Home Office, the UK has a proud tradition of providing a safe haven for 'genuine' asylum seekers.
-
25 Jan 01
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has pledged an extra £100m for the government's neighbourhood renewal fund, doubling the amount of money being given to deprived areas next year. The money is in...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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...
-
4 Jan 01
The government has denied that schools around the country are suffering from teacher 'famine'
-
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
-
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
-
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
1 Feb 01Local government minister Hilary Armstrong is to send a seven-strong financial hit squad into the London Borough of Hackney to help the troubled authority deal with its budget deficit.
28 Sep 21
19 Oct 20 to 22 Oct 20
