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2 Dec 99
A West Country council is to continue to work with the IT services company CSL in spite of chaos caused to its benefits payments by the privatised IT operation.
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2 Dec 99
Labour has made £24m available for councils to meet the costs of audit and inspection under the Best Value regime that comes into force in April.
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2 Dec 99
There must be no let-up in health authorities' and trusts' battle to bear down on debt and meet the government's targets, NHS Executive finance director Colin Reeves said this week.
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2 Dec 99
The National Audit Office should be granted greater powers to inspect private companies undertaking public sector contracts, the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, David Davis MP, said last...
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25 Nov 99
A rise of 7% has been forecast in council tax almost three times the rate of inflation in the next financial year, with householders facing an average £56 increase in their bills.
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25 Nov 99
Councils have accused the government of penalising them for innovation by denying them cash for policies which are later recommended and funded by the government.
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25 Nov 99
The National Association of Head Teachers has accused local education authorities of undermining school self-management and creating a dependency culture because of the way they distribute grants to...
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25 Nov 99
Directly elected mayors for major cities in England and Wales could be in place as early as spring 2001 as the government this week signalled it wanted to speed legislation through parliament.
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25 Nov 99
The Treasury is to more than double the number of cross-government spending programmes but has played down claims that this is an assault on the financial independence of individual Whitehall...
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25 Nov 99
The influential Performance and Innovation Unit (PIU) at the Cabinet Office is to investigate which public services can be delivered electronically and to examine the respective roles of both the...
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25 Nov 99
Seventeen local authorities placed under 'special measures' by the government have complained that they were treated unfairly by being named and shamed by social care minister John Hutton.
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25 Nov 99
The government has published the bill detailing its move to resource accounting, describing the changes as the 'biggest reform and modernisation programme since the Gladstone era'.
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25 Nov 99
A south London housing association is about to become the first registered social landlord (RSL) to outsource its finance department.
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25 Nov 99
Housing maintenance was this week placed ahead of long-term management improvements when local authorities were given an extra £67m to spend on council house repairs next year.
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18 Nov 99
The government will put local government political reorganisation on the fast track next week when it publishes the bill that will pave the way for directly elected mayors.
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18 Nov 99
The Local Government Association has accused education minister Estelle Morris of 'scaremongering' after she warned that a further 15 local authorities might have their services privatised in a drive...
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18 Nov 99
Legislation that will pave the way for the setting up of the new body to promote the Private Finance Initiative, Partnerships UK (Puk), was published this week after the Queen's Speech.
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18 Nov 99
The health service is being urged to reduce its deficit next year, even if that means postponing initiatives and cutting other services, finance managers said this week.
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18 Nov 99
An improvement agency covering the whole of the public sector in Scotland could be set up, following the publication next month of a report by the Best Value Taskforce.
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18 Nov 99
The National Audit Office has reiterated its support for considered risk-taking and experimentation by those working in the public sector.
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18 Nov 99
Find out what the people think, and pay attention: that's the message the Audit Commission is trying to get across to public bodies.
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18 Nov 99
In just over a month, Scotland will have its first auditor general.
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18 Nov 99
Ofsted is to overhaul its inspection regime to crack down on 'coasting schools' while continuing to root out those that are failing.
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18 Nov 99
The chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality has lambasted councils for their 'shameful' race relations record.
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18 Nov 99
The government's crackdown on fraud in the National Health Service started in earnest this week with new powers for the NHS Tribunal to disqualify practitioners who have committed fraud.
2 Dec 99A West Country council is to continue to work with the IT services company CSL in spite of chaos caused to its benefits payments by the privatised IT operation.
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