Head teachers this week denounced the core proposal of the long-awaited independent report on the summer's A-level fiasco: the idea that the two-tier exam should be separated into stand-alone...
Opposition parties have accused Scotland's Labour-dominated coalition of taking the electorate for granted by drawing up plans for the whole of the next Parliament.
Fraudulent housing benefit claims could be costing taxpayers billions of pounds each year but some councils have done nothing to remedy the problem, the minister in charge of the government's anti-...
Sir Jeremy Beecham has voiced doubts about the quality of some of the inspections carried out for the Comprehensive Performance Assessment, just one week before the results are unveiled.
Failure to run proper checks on the £4.7bn of tax credits paid out each year is leaving 'significant gaps in the control over public funds', according to the Commons' Public Accounts Committee.
Local authorities will have to stick to the April 2003 deadline for implementing FRS17 the controversial accounting standard under proposals published by CIPFA in a consultation paper last week...
Local government leaders are finally seeing local tax-raising powers within their grasp after Gordon Brown indicated that authorities would be able to keep rates income generated by encouraging new...
CBI focuses on needs of 'Joe Public'
Putting the consumer first was the focus of a new approach to public-private partnerships enshrined in the Confederation of British Industry's much-heralded '...
NHS hospitals in the north of England provide better care for their patients than their counterparts in the south, according to the health service's own watchdog.
The two largest classroom teaching unions went on a one-day strike in London this week over their demand for an increased allowance to cover the cost of living in the capital.
The government's use of public sector targets often referred to as 'targetitis' should reflect 'meaningful outcomes for those using and providing services', the chair of the Local Government...
Top-performing authorities will be exempted from ringfenced funding as part of the package of freedoms and flexibilities finally unveiled by ministers this week.
The reorganisation of health services in Wales will improve co-operation between the NHS and councils, the Welsh Assembly's minister for health and social services claimed this week.
Westminster City Council's record-breaking £224m outsourcing contract for street cleaning, announced last week, could have been run in-house for £4m a year less than the annual £32m it will cost...
Councils need to be more vocal in their opposition to the Comprehensive Performance Assessment if local democracy is to survive, the chief executive of Westminster City Council has warned.