Four NHS chief executives have resigned after a damning report found their Scottish region was riddled with infighting and a lack of financial understanding.
Belfast City Council is launching an investigation into why a £175 Christmas tree it paid for was decorated with lights reading 'Merry Christmas C Company', a reference to a brigade of Loyalist...
New Labour's suggested shake-up of the UK pension system, dubbed the 'work until you drop' package, is merely storing up problems for the future, according to public sector experts, opposition...
Ministers must avoid an over-reaction to accounting scandals such as Enron and WorldCom, and maintain a 'broad brush' approach to regulating the profession, public sector experts warned this week.
Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes councils have awarded Hyder Business Services 'preferred bidder status' in what could be the largest public-private partnership in local government history.
Labour has not done enough to stop local government's powers being sapped by Whitehall and must accept its share of the blame, the party's general secretary has admitted.
The controversy surrounding Comprehensive Performance Assessments looked likely to stretch into the new year as this week at least three councils launched legal bids to have their judgements...
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling this week warned rail companies they must get a grip on the spiralling costs that are undermining the government's long-term plan to improve the network.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn has announced two measures to devolve power to frontline NHS organisations proposals to establish foundation trusts, and allocations to primary care trusts from April...
Northern Ireland's largest programme of public sector infrastructure rebuilding was announced on December 11 by acting finance minister Ian Pearson in the province's annual Budget.
Britain's over-crowded prison system is close to breaking point, with inmates suffering 'degrading' conditions that could lead to legal challenges against the Prison Service, the sector's watchdog...
NHS Plan recruitment targets are under threat because one in seven health service workers could retire in the next five years, the King's Fund warned this week.
A Left-leaning think-tank is calling for greater scrutiny of Private Finance Initiative schemes entered into by central and local government, after it revealed that only 6% of the contracts have had...
Birmingham's housing department should be broken up into 35 community-based organisations, according to the commission set up after tenants rejected stock transfer.
Top-tier local authorities in England were finally put out of their misery when the Audit Commission published the results of the Comprehensive Performance Assessments on December 12.
Education Secretary Charles Clarke could extend New Labour's 'carrot and stick' approach to reducing government inspection and targets by offering schools a respite if they receive glowing...
The London Assembly and the Association of London Government are independently to evaluate the capital's congestion charge scheme following Transport for London's decision to conduct its own...
The government's affordable housing strategy ran into trouble this week when the Ministry of Defence admitted it could not stop 25 homes at an Essex army barracks being sold off.