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15 Feb 01
With millions enjoying Valentine's Day blow-outs, February 14 may not have been the perfect day to warn the population about the dangers of obesity.
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15 Feb 01
E-minister Patricia Hewitt has defended the decision to allocate only £30m towards the government's goal of extensive fast broadband Internet access across Britain by 2005.
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15 Feb 01
Local government leaders are breathing a sigh of relief following publication of the government's long-awaited white paper on the knowledge economy on February 13.
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15 Feb 01
Sir Michael Bichard, permanent secretary at the Department for Education and Employment, has announced unexpectedly that he will leave Whitehall at the end of May.
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15 Feb 01
Unison has slammed a decision by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council to cut 450 jobs as 'unnecessary, incompetent and destructive'.
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15 Feb 01
Crisis-ridden Hackney Council has launched a fraud investigation following the discovery of irregular cash transfers between bank accounts, Public Finance has learned.
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15 Feb 01
London's fire authority has agreed in principle to loan Transport for London £15m to help it meet a potential budget shortfall later this year.
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15 Feb 01
The director-general of the Prison Service, Martin Narey, has told MPs that his recent threat to resign was an attempt to galvanise governors he felt were slow to instigate reform.
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15 Feb 01
The motorists' licensing body completed its Millennium Bug preparations only at the last minute and had no workable contingency plan if it failed to meet the deadline, according to the National Audit...
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8 Feb 01
The Local Government Association has asked the Treasury to fund a £200m shortfall created by the teachers' pay increase agreed by the government last week.
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8 Feb 01
NHS league tables are not sufficiently detailed to allow patients to make informed decisions, the Consumers' Association said this week.
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8 Feb 01
The government should quadruple the 'participation premiums' given to universities for admitting students from poor socio-economic backgrounds, according to the Commons education select committee.
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8 Feb 01
The gap between high and low performing schools is still too wide, Ofsted warned this week, following the publication of its annual report.
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1 Feb 01
A powerful committee of MPs has slated the Lord Chancellor's department for its lax handling of the failing Public Trust Office. It also questioned the decision to pay the PTO's departing chief...
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1 Feb 01
A consortium of Welsh local authorities is demanding the Home Office keep its promise to reimburse them for money spent developing services to help asylum seekers.
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1 Feb 01
A south London borough's £1bn-plus regeneration programme is under the spotlight after the shock resignation of its mayor from the Labour group last week.
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1 Feb 01
The number of vacant council and housing association properties is rising in spite of an overall decrease in empty homes, new figures reveal.
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1 Feb 01
The most expensive building venture undertaken by English Partnerships, the government's national urban regeneration and development agency, faces its acid test this week when the London Borough of...
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1 Feb 01
Local government minister Hilary Armstrong is to send a seven-strong financial hit squad into the London Borough of Hackney to help the troubled authority deal with its budget deficit.
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1 Feb 01
Andrew Pinder has been confirmed as the government's new e-envoy, the key post in driving through its ambitious UK online project.
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1 Feb 01
Chancellor Gordon Brown could be sitting on an even bigger budget surplus than anticipated because government departments are not spending their allocations, according to the Institute for Fiscal...
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1 Feb 01
Although local authority fraud is down for the first time in ten years, councils still face an uphill battle to control housing benefit fraud, the Audit Commission warned this week.
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1 Feb 01
A last-minute £188m cash injection into this week's local government finance settlement may not be enough to head off mounting pay and service pressures, warn councils.
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1 Feb 01
William Hague has promised that the next Conservative government would 'deregulate' schools and hospitals as part of a drive to boost standards in public services.
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1 Feb 01
Ofsted chief inspector Mike Tomlinson adopted a new, conciliatory approach to local education authorities this week, despite the publication of a report that accuses LEAs of having little effect on...
15 Feb 01With millions enjoying Valentine's Day blow-outs, February 14 may not have been the perfect day to warn the population about the dangers of obesity.
