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8 Jun 00
Two reports on the British military operation in Kosovo have found that troops had to contend with excessive workloads, insecure communications equipment and substandard accommodation.
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8 Jun 00
Plans to eliminate a £1.5m deficit at a Northern Irish NHS trust have been rejected by its local health board, which is unhappy with proposed cuts in services.
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8 Jun 00
Local authorities in northern England are counting the cost of massive clean-up operations following serious flooding last weekend. The bill may come to as much as £15m, according to some estimates.
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1 Jun 00
Worcestershire Health Authority has slammed an independent report into its Private Finance Initiative hospital project as 'breathtakingly inaccurate'.
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1 Jun 00
A new policing co-operation agreement signed by Britain and its European Union partners will open the way for British police to operate abroad.
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1 Jun 00
The Department of Health is planning to include private health providers in contingency plans to avoid a repeat of last winter's hospital beds crisis.
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1 Jun 00
Chief inspector of schools Chris Woodhead has dismissed calls from a teachers' union leader for an end to the 'Spanish Inquisition' of schools' inspections.
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1 Jun 00
The Inland Revenue wants to appoint a marketing director to spearhead the department's diversity and equality action plan.
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1 Jun 00
Local authorities have reacted angrily to yet another attempt to sideline them in favour of more centralised control, this time over care of the elderly and the disabled.
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1 Jun 00
A government advisory body has published new guidance for local councils on Private Finance Initiative contracts.
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1 Jun 00
Scottish finance minister Jack McConnell this week rejected claims by the Scottish National Party that Scotland is losing out on millions of pounds because of the way European Union structural funds...
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1 Jun 00
Labour think-tank the Fabian Society has called for pilot studies of compulsory voting to be carried out in local elections.
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1 Jun 00
Asylum seekers must be offered more than just a roof over their heads in the provinces if the government's new dispersal policy is to prove successful, according to an Audit Commission report,...
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25 May 00
The Local Government Association commission examining the school year has heard that redistributing holidays more evenly and having an increased number of shorter terms could cut absence levels among...
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25 May 00
The Department of Health will for the first time draw up statutory guidance for council social services departments on charging for home care services, health minister John Hutton revealed this week.
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25 May 00
Lack of autonomy in the classroom and increasing bureaucracy are contributing to soaring stress levels among teachers, with record numbers wanting to leave the profession, according to a report from...
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25 May 00
Government promises to create a simpler funding system for further education are being treated with scepticism by college finance directors.
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25 May 00
The government insisted this week that it would 'no longer tolerate failure' in public sector information technology projects and that the current 'blame culture' had to be replaced by a more...
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25 May 00
Two leading lights in CIPFA's Scottish branch have been appointed deputy auditors general at Audit Scotland.
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25 May 00
Immediate steps must be taken to tackle poor administration of housing benefit, MPs were told this week.
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25 May 00
The government looks set to provoke a row with a powerful group of doctors in the run-up to the next General Election by suggesting hospital consultants' private practices should be reined in.
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25 May 00
The Public Accounts Committee has rapped the former head of the Benefits Agency for his 'poor excuses' to taxpayers over inaccurate Jobseekers Allowance payments totalling £245.3m.
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25 May 00
The quality of Welsh council services varies widely and falls below that of their English counterparts in many areas, the Audit Commission said this week.
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18 May 00
Community psychiatric nurses fear they may be used as 'the stormtroopers of the social risk agenda' if compulsory community health care is introduced.
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18 May 00
The government this week stepped up its hard-hitting approach to fraud detection and prevention across the public sector, launching an anti-fraud forum and exhorting managers to commit themselves to...
8 Jun 00Two reports on the British military operation in Kosovo have found that troops had to contend with excessive workloads, insecure communications equipment and substandard accommodation.
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