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26 Oct 00
Chancellor Gordon Brown's bid to encourage the private and voluntary sectors to invest up to £1bn in deprived areas will be one of the key planks of his pre-Budget report on November 8.
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19 Oct 00
Nearly half of English councils have increased their rents by more than the government's recommended level, according to a Local Government Association report.
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19 Oct 00
Efforts to minimise pressure on the health service this winter went up a gear this week as leading figures warned that the NHS faces a tough three months.
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19 Oct 00
Senior doctors thought they saw the light at the end of the tunnel when Prime Minister Tony Blair, addressing the Royal College of Surgeons of England's bicentennial conference on October 16, seemed...
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19 Oct 00
Large parts of the public sector have failed to engage with their customers on the Internet, and will not succeed with e-government targets unless they join together to get better deals, a leading...
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19 Oct 00
The London Borough of Hackney is in the throes of another financial crisis after the borough treasurer issued a formal warning that the authority is facing a massive budget deficit.
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19 Oct 00
Northern Ireland's first home-grown budget in 29 years proffers a substantial increase in spending on the health service in the province and a boost for agriculture and rural development.
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19 Oct 00
Local Government Association chair Sir Jeremy Beecham has launched a renewed defence of the public service ethos and the value of 'vigorous local democracy'.
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19 Oct 00
The government has beefed up the Local Government Modernisation Team with the appointment of eight new members this week.
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19 Oct 00
Ex-offenders should be treated as priority cases for housing rather than automatically excluded from council waiting lists, it was claimed this week.
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19 Oct 00
Some Scottish councils are lagging behind in the Best Value regime, according to the Accounts Commission in Edinburgh.
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19 Oct 00
Best Value is a success so far and should promote a steady improvement in council services to the public, says the Audit Commission.
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19 Oct 00
A high-profile authority chief executive has warned that the advent of regional assemblies may lead to a dramatic down-sizing of local government.
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19 Oct 00
The government is to invest £82m in a new literacy and numeracy scheme for 11 14-year-olds, Education Secretary David Blunkett announced this week.
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19 Oct 00
The chair of the body set up to examine how contracts are awarded under Best Value has reassured local authorities they will not have new regulations forced on them.
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19 Oct 00
Edinburgh University is attempting to stave off a projected £3m annual shortfall in funding by raising a £40m bond issue.
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12 Oct 00
In politics, appearance is everything. With a general election looming, ministers have their beady eyes trained on the all-important National Health Service.
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12 Oct 00
The King's Fund is to lead a drive to boost the professional standards of health advocates in London. The aim is to ensure people from ethnic minorities have proper access to NHS services. The health...
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12 Oct 00
Audit Commission controller Andrew Foster this week called for a radical streamlining of NHS audit and inspection in order to drive out inefficiencies and duplication in the current system.
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12 Oct 00
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has broken public sector pay barriers by offering up to £2m over four years to lure 'the best in the world' to London's top transport job.
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12 Oct 00
Ministerial interference in next year's finance settlement is threatening to divide local government, with London boroughs accusing the government of trying to cheat them out of £49m to placate its...
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12 Oct 00
Home Secretary Jack Straw has distanced himself from a report which calls for the merger of the Commission for Racial Equality, the Disability Rights Commission and the Equal Opportunities Commission.
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12 Oct 00
Local government needs to ditch its narrow-minded approach to partnerships, local government minister Hilary Armstrong warned this week.
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5 Oct 00
Hospital workers in Dudley have launched a fifth round of industrial action in protest against plans to outsource staff in an £88m Private Finance Initiative project.
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5 Oct 00
Health Secretary Alan Milburn ushered Best Value into the NHS last week, abandoning almost two decades of compulsory market testing in support services such as cleaning and catering.
26 Oct 00Chancellor Gordon Brown's bid to encourage the private and voluntary sectors to invest up to £1bn in deprived areas will be one of the key planks of his pre-Budget report on November 8.
