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8 Jul 99
Local authorities may have to boost efforts to combat stress and bullying at work after two councils this week paid damages of more than £150,000 to ex-employees.
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1 Jul 99
The top 25 equipment projects commissioned by the Ministry of Defence are expected to cost £2.8bn more than originally forecast and will enter service on average more than three and a half years late...
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1 Jul 99
Social Security Secretary Alistair Darling did little this week to dampen speculation that housing benefit faces abolition in a bid to cut down on massive levels of fraud.
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1 Jul 99
A scientific research council has been severely criticised by the Public Accounts Committee for a 'lack of management grip' in the implementation of a new computer system.
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1 Jul 99
Unison has welcomed changes to the Private Finance Initiative which no longer require staff to transfer to the private sector.
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1 Jul 99
The National Health Service Executive has relaxed financial rules compelling NHS trusts and health authorities collectively to break even this year.
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1 Jul 99
The Treasury will give financial backing to any Private Finance Initiative scheme that ends up on the public sector balance sheet because of new accounting rules, Public Finance has learned.
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1 Jul 99
The Treasury is to raid its contingency fund to meet the military costs of the Kosovo conflict while protecting public spending levels.
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17 Jun 99
The Treasury is to release an extra £480m to bail out the Post Office's ailing IT modernisation programme.
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17 Jun 99
The Data Protection Registrar has warned councils that an overzealous pursuit of data matching could undermine attempts to modernise the way the public gains access to services.
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17 Jun 99
They were trumpeted as the end of an iniquitous internal market in health.
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17 Jun 99
Michael Bichard, permanent secretary to the Department for Education and Employment, has been created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
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17 Jun 99
Labour is urging European leaders to launch a modernisation offensive that parallels its own crusade in Britain.
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10 Jun 99
The burden of policing the European Commission ban on Belgian meat and dairy produce will impose fresh pressure on councils.
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10 Jun 99
CIPFA is about to announce major changes to its professional qualification.
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10 Jun 99
Housing associations and community groups were this week invited to copy a savings and loans scheme established in Cambridge to improve low-income tenants' access to affordable loans.
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10 Jun 99
An £84m hole has been discovered in the accounts of National Savings, the government agency that offers personal savings products to the public to help finance the National Debt. Fraud has not been...
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10 Jun 99
Rent reform should begin immediately, with a major increase in the subsidy paid to registered social landlords, ministers were told by the National Housing Federation this week.
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10 Jun 99
Four out of five health authorities and a third of hospitals are in debt, leading to a cumulative deficit of £540m, according to the Audit Commission.
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10 Jun 99
Training and Enterprise Councils face abolition in their present form, under government proposals to be published at the end of the month.
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10 Jun 99
The first takeover of one council-owned airport by another was confirmed this week when Manchester Airport successfully completed its purchase of Humberside International Airport.
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3 Jun 99
NHS managers are all too aware that there is rarely a moment to pause and take stock.
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3 Jun 99
The future of national pay bargaining for 1.6 million local government workers is up for grabs, following the launch of a three-month consultation by the Employers' Organisation.
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3 Jun 99
Changes to Britain's phone system which could end up costing councils hundreds of thousands of pounds were met this week with a collective shrug of the shoulders from the public sector.
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3 Jun 99
Planning regulations must be tightened up so that more people have the chance to rent or buy low-cost homes, ministers were told this week.
8 Jul 99Local authorities may have to boost efforts to combat stress and bullying at work after two councils this week paid damages of more than £150,000 to ex-employees.
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