There will be a major review of the impact of the first foundation trusts, the government announced this week in a further package of concessions on the controversial initiative.
MPs on the influential Commons' Public Accounts Committee will question Inland Revenue chair Sir Nick Montagu in early December over the National Audit Office's refusal to sign off the Revenue's 2002...
The question of who is going to pick up the estimated £5m £6m costs of policing US President Bush's state visit remained unresolved this week as the Metropolitan Police Authority called for...
Northern Ireland's auditor general, John Dowdall, has issued a disclaimer on the Department for Social Development's 2002/03 accounts effectively refusing to sign them off.
The long-standing battle over the two-tier workforce and pensions were expected to be on the agenda for the first meeting of the Public Services Forum the latest move to build bridges between...
Councils in Scotland will each undergo a new in-depth audit to determine whether they are meeting their Best Value duties, Audit Scotland has announced.
Welsh consultants' overwhelming 'yes' vote in the ballot on their new contract will improve doctors' working lives and help recruitment of senior doctors, the British Medical Association said this...
London and the West Midlands could each gain an extra £150m over three years under plans to let councils keep some of the business rates raised locally, new Treasury figures show.
The Scottish Executive this week defended the cost of running the devolved administration after new figures disclosed that civil service numbers have risen by 17% since the Holyrood Parliament was...
The proportion of funding raised through council tax should be decreased and other regimes such as local income tax considered to run alongside it, CIPFA said this week.
District councils cried foul and other local authorities renewed threats of council tax rises and service cuts in spite of the proposed 4.7% increase in revenue support grant announced by the...
Kingston upon Hull City Council has been dealt a double blow as it strives to shed its tarnished image following a second damning Audit Commission report, with councillors again at loggerheads and a...
An employers' leader conceded this week that local government pay negotiations need an overhaul as firefighters announced they would vote on whether to accept a two-stage 7% wage increase.
Providers of adult mental health services in England will have only £56m to develop their services in the current financial year, according to the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
NHS Direct must expand its capacity if it is to meet demand from patients and achieve the targets set by the government, the Commission for Health Improvement said this week.
Lessons have been learned from the debacle when a Public Record Office website of the 1901 census fell apart after less than a week, the National Audit Office has said.
Water customers in Scotland were warned this week that they face another increase in their bills unless Scottish Water makes faster progress to boost efficiency.
A leading social services expert has questioned the validity of the government's latest star ratings for councils and the impact of 'trouble-shooting' teams sent to improve second-rate authorities.
Teachers in England and Wales are to receive an inflation-only, multi-year pay increase for the first time as the government moves to head off a repeat of the schools funding crisis that saw mass...