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14 Sep 00
The armed forces will be short of pilots for fast jets until 2012, even if current targets are met, the National Audit Office has declared in a report published this week on the training of new...
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14 Sep 00
Union leaders have launched a swingeing attack on the government's promotion of private sector involvement in public services at the Trades Union Congress in Glasgow.
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14 Sep 00
The government's wider markets initiative is set to take off as departments realise they can retain profits made in joint ventures with the private sector, a seminar was told this week.
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14 Sep 00
Dot.com companies could soon be processing passport applications, driving licences and even benefits under plans to allow the private and voluntary sectors to deliver on-line government services.
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7 Sep 00
The fight against street crime in the West Midlands has been taken to the Internet. Pictures of the 'ten most wanted' suspects in the region have been posted on the West Midlands Police Force website...
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7 Sep 00
Wiltshire this week claimed to be on course to open the country's first custom-built joint communications centre for all three emergency services.
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7 Sep 00
The Local Government Association joined this week's manifesto frenzy in an attempt to halt the government's drive to marginalise councils in the run-up to the General Election.
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7 Sep 00
Council tax should be replaced with a 'fair local income tax' according to pre-manifesto plans from the Liberal Democrats.
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7 Sep 00
The Surrey town of Dorking faces two obstacles as it tries to make its name on the Internet.
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7 Sep 00
The Highways Agency is to spend £1.2bn on new technology to get the traffic on Britain's roads moving more smoothly.
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7 Sep 00
The government's hospital building programme is ill-considered and could create expensive white elephants, a King's Fund report said this week, in yet another condemnation of Private Finance...
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7 Sep 00
Prime Minister Tony Blair has asked the Social Exclusion Unit to work with other government departments to cut rates of reoffending by ex-prisoners.
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7 Sep 00
The Conservatives' opening shots in the coming election campaign, featuring radical plans for change in education and local government, have been greeted with predictably swingeing criticism from...
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7 Sep 00
The public sector has a serious image problem which is discouraging young people from seeing it as a worthwhile career and creating a recruitment crisis, according to the chief executive of the King'...
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7 Sep 00
Doctors and nurses on the verge of retirement are being urged to postpone their departure until next spring to help avoid a winter crisis in the NHS.
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7 Sep 00
Smaller rent increases and new accounting procedures have led to major reductions in the annual surpluses reported by housing associations.
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7 Sep 00
A teaching union claims hard-pressed schools are covering up the true extent of teacher shortages.
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7 Sep 00
NHS trusts and health authorities are to be given a degree of choice in how they approach joint working on basic financial services.
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31 Aug 00
Council social services departments' inability to cope with demand could plunge the NHS into another winter crisis, health authorities and trusts said this week.
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31 Aug 00
The government is to launch a quality strategy for social workers in a bid to raise standards and challenge the negative stereotypes that dog the profession.
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31 Aug 00
Just weeks after publication of the NHS National Plan, finance staff are being given the first glimpse of what the future holds for them in a modernised NHS.
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31 Aug 00
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) should go to court more often to stop the public being ripped off by rogue traders, says a powerful committee of MPs.
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31 Aug 00
Public, private and voluntary organisations are to work with 345 schools on out-of-hours educational projects for which funding was announced this week.
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24 Aug 00
London's poorest areas could lose millions of pounds in vital regeneration funding under a new deprivation index, local authorities in the capital have warned.
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24 Aug 00
Civil service targets to increase the numbers of ethnic minority staff in Whitehall are unrealistic, inaccurate and disappointing, the chair of the Commission for Racial Equality has warned.
14 Sep 00The armed forces will be short of pilots for fast jets until 2012, even if current targets are met, the National Audit Office has declared in a report published this week on the training of new...
