Linda Dickens, professor of industrial relations at Warwick Business School, is the unanimous choice to chair the local government pay commission, the body set up on the back of this year's prolonged...
Over the past year public services have become by default a key issue for the Liberal Democrats. Internal rows and specialist groups have dominated its policy-making.
Business leaders this week launched a scathing attack on regional transport policies adopted by the government, local authorities and service contractors.
The structure of Network Rail, the not-for-profit successor to Railtrack, will be 'unaccountable, introverted and deeply flawed', according to a leading think-tank.
The Greater London Authority has described its newly awarded AA+ credit rating from agency Standard & Poor's as an 'impressive achievement' for a relatively new organisation.
When Tony Blair steps up to make his vital rallying call at the Labour Party conference in the first week of October, his government will be facing the most concerted challenge yet from public sector...
Resurgent trade union power and support in the public sector is likely to be short-lived unless unions can adapt to rapidly changing workplaces, the influential Fabian Society has declared.
Home Secretary David Blunkett has launched a spirited defence of government asylum policy in the face of attacks which likened planned accommodation centres to the Millennium Dome.
The hit squad sent in to turn around the Criminal Records Bureau is to examine the role of both the Home Office and outsourcing firm Capita in the crisis over criminal checks, the home secretary said...
The performance of local education authorities has little bearing on pupil attainment and government policies to connect the two are 'unrealistic', Ofsted said this week.
Plans to fine councils deemed responsible for causing bed blocking in hospitals have been attacked as 'costly, unworkable and flawed' by the Local Government Association.
MPs have delivered a damning indictment of the government's previous attempt to overhaul local government and accused it of failing to meet the objectives of its reforms.
A former chair of the Low Pay Commission is to head the government's independent review into firefighters' pay and conditions as the Fire Brigades Union presses ahead with a ballot for strike action...
SNP leader John Swinney has accused the Scottish Executive of indulging in 'Enron-style accounting' in its presentation of Scotland's cut of July's Spending Review.
A new training scheme for managers who run housing associations set up following stock transfers has been postponed for a second time because not enough people applied to join it.