The Charter Mark award is to be developed into a powerful tool within public sector reform, constitutional affairs minister Lord Filkin said this week.
Town hall leaders are increasingly confident that radical reform of the funding system is on the way, after ministers agreed to detailed research into the implications of potentially far-reaching...
Rail passengers are forced to travel in 'intolerable conditions' on overcrowded trains and urgent action is needed to stop the situation from getting even worse, according to MPs.
As launches go, the unveiling of the draft Office of the Deputy Prime Minister/Employers' Organisation pay and workforce strategy for councils was more Titanic than QEII .
The Office of National Statistics has told Public Finance that it is considering whether £52bn in public liabilities for decommissioning nuclear facilities must be entered in the national accounts.
Labour's controversial plan to overhaul the NHS has placed hospital trusts at high financial risk while police authorities, probation boards and local government are all blighted by poor internal...
Northern Ireland's Review of Public Administration, published this week, has described five options for how the province's public services can be provided in the future.
The Scottish Executive is to recruit an expert from the private sector to head a new performance and innovation unit as part of plans to strengthen the office of permanent secretary and sharpen up...
Ministers should scrap all national targets for secondary school pupils because they have now 'served their purpose', an influential committee of MPs reported this week.
Local government leaders have called for long-term sustainable funding to ensure that the latest plans to crack down on antisocial behaviour are a success.
Social care is to get its own voice in Whitehall with the creation of a national director of social care, Health Secretary John Reid told social services chiefs this week.
Councils are failing to drive down costs, improve productivity and provide greater customer satisfaction, local government minister Nick Raynsford told local authority chief executives this week.
The government has rejected independent research commissioned by the National Union of Teachers suggesting that this year's schools' funding crisis has resulted in the loss of almost 9,000 teaching...
The British Medical Association this week urged the government to act against aggressive patients after a survey revealed one in three doctors had experienced violence in the past year.
Oxford City Council has been found guilty of maladministration for deducting council tax arrears from the wrong man after trying to trace a defaulter using only a telephone directory.
Audit Commission chair James Strachan has appointed Frances Done, the former chief executive of Manchester's 2002 Commonwealth Games, as the watchdog's new head of local government, housing and...
Former top Treasury mandarin Lucy de Groot, who until last month was Gordon Brown's director of public services, has said the government is confused about its own philosophy of 'new localism'.
Lift, the public-private partnership model developed by the NHS to meet the building needs of the primary care sector, also offers a useful procurement option for local government, the Office of the...
The capital's local authorities and post offices will grind to a halt as workers go on strike on October 16 to demand a £4,000 London weighting allowance.
Northern Ireland's water and sewerage services will not be privatised or converted into a 'not-for-dividend business', John Spellar, the province's acting regional development minister, has announced...