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...
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 .
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...
John Prescott's blueprint to improve councils' working practices has put a question mark over the value of the long-awaited Local Government Pay Commission report on the sector.
Britain's Olympic Games bid team could be on a collision course with the government and London's politicians over plans to tear down the main stadium immediately after the event.
Business rates income in Scotland is £500m more than estimated, providing the Scottish Executive with a 'windfall', members of a parliamentary committee have been told.
Home Secretary David Blunkett's plans to build two 'super prisons' to combat the UK's rapidly growing inmate population are unnecessary and ill-considered, it was claimed this week.
Trade unions got their wish and delivered a bloody nose to ministers at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth last week on the issue of foundation hospitals.
The Criminal Records Bureau is likely to refocus and scale back by millions its original targets on criminal records checks after privately conceding that it has misjudged demand for basic...
The Local Government Association has denied rumours that its chief executive Sir Brian Briscoe is to leave and confirmed that he has signed a new contract to stay on at the organisation.
University lecturers have accused the government of trying to hit its higher education expansion target on the cheap after it announced an extra 10,000 foundation degree places.
Patients across England should be able to book hospital appointments electronically within two years, the Department of Health said this week as it awarded the first contract in its multi-billion...
The public's reluctance to approach pharmacists for medical advice could stymie government plans to give high-street chemists a greater role in patient care, the Consumers' Association said this week.
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.
Chester-le-Street District Council, currently under heavy scrutiny by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, has confirmed it is investigating a potential breach of government outsourcing...
