The rapid expansion in the NHS nursing workforce has been over-reliant on overseas recruitment and might not be sustainable in the long term, nursing leaders have warned.
The economic development agency Scottish Enterprise (SE) has been told to review its performance management system following criticisms of the way targets are set and monitored.
Business leaders have expressed scepticism about government plans to slash £20bn off the cost of running Whitehall, describing proposals as 'crude', and claiming that ministers could 'spin' success...
Scottish ministers have promised swift action following the publication of two damning reports criticising serious social care, health and policing failures in the Borders region.
Senior civil servants in Scotland are bracing themselves for criticisms of their handling of the controversial Holyrood parliament building project when public inquiry chair Lord Fraser of Carmyllie...
Local government unions have resolved to ratchet up their pay campaign by lobbying chief executives and councillors during the local elections, while balloting their members on the current 7% three-...
School inspections should take into account external social and economic influences to give a more rounded picture of performance, according to a Commons' committee.
Labour and the Conservatives have fired the opening salvos in this year's local elections campaign, levelling allegations of high spending and town hall mismanagement at one other.
The number of Northern Ireland's local authorities is set to be cut from 26 to a maximum of nine as a result of the first proposals emerging from the province's Review of Public Administration.
The government is to give housing associations staged funding to take over council 'sink estates' as part of a package of measures announced this week to boost its decent homes standard.
The government-backed project set up to inject £125m of public money into the voluntary sector will fail unless public sector agencies get on board, the head of the consortium charged with managing...
All Private Finance Initiative projects that have not been closed by May 14 must adhere to new standard contract terms that come into force on that date, the Treasury has said
Whitehall's statistics watchdog has moved to end political arguments over the use of civil service data by calling for new laws on how information is presented, claiming that the current setup is '...
Anne Chant, acting chair of the Inland Revenue, has committed the organisation to an 11-month deadline to improve its debt recovery procedures following revelations that billions of pounds are...
Local authorities could move to three-year budgets in the Spending Review after the prime minister promised schools longer-term financial planning this week.
