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16 Dec 99
Hundreds of teaching jobs are at risk following the ending of Section 11 grants to local authorities. The grants are paid for teachers to help residents for whom English is a foreign language.
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16 Dec 99
Contractors bidding for Private Finance Initiative contracts in the health service face an extra round of competition following the introduction of long-awaited guidance by Health Secretary Alan...
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16 Dec 99
Acute shortages of social housing and the unwillingness of some councils to provide accommodation for ex-prisoners are adding to the likelihood of people reoffending after they leave prison, says a...
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16 Dec 99
Local government does not have a single black finance director, the Employers' Organisation has found.
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16 Dec 99
Schools minister Estelle Morris has conceded that the government is creating and promoting a market for the private sector to take over the running of failing schools.
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16 Dec 99
The first of a rolling series of Audit Commission and Social Services Inspectorate reports into Welsh social services have produced a winner and a loser.
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16 Dec 99
Statutory guidance for implementing Best Value was published for all local authorities this week.
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16 Dec 99
Britain's largest council, Birmingham City, this week elected an all-Labour Cabinet team as political reforms at the authority gathered pace.
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16 Dec 99
Local authorities will have to bear an increasing amount of the cost of Best Value inspection, which could rise to more than £50m a year.
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16 Dec 99
A code of practice is being drawn up by the Treasury to try to avoid major disputes if prices need to be converted from pounds to euros.
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16 Dec 99
The government's drive to deliver public services via the Internet is being undermined by Whitehall's 'risk-averse' culture and its inability to respond to change quickly, the first major...
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9 Dec 99
Social housing rents would soar beyond the means of most tenants if they were based on the market value of properties, says a new survey.
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9 Dec 99
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is under pressure from within Whitehall to rethink plans to sell a majority stake in Britain's air traffic control system.
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9 Dec 99
The Scottish Ambulance Service should introduce a multi-million pound call prioritisation service as soon as possible, the National Audit Office said this week.
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9 Dec 99
Trading standards departments need to work more closely with each other and with the Office of Fair Trading, according to separate reports from the Audit Commission and the National Audit Office.
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2 Dec 99
League tables could be introduced across the criminal justice system after a critical National Audit Office study found up to £84m could be saved by eliminating waste and spreading good practice.
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2 Dec 99
A High Court victory by homeless families who objected to being placed in seaside accommodation will add to the spiralling cost of homelessness in London, local authorities warned this week.
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2 Dec 99
He astonished the audience at a conference on workplace bullying by departing from his planned speech to reveal that he suffered a number of violent attacks while he was a trade union representative...
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2 Dec 99
Doctors' allowances are under threat following an Audit Commission report showing that fraud perpetrated by general practitioners in England has increased tenfold in the past year.
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2 Dec 99
A West Country council is to continue to work with the IT services company CSL in spite of chaos caused to its benefits payments by the privatised IT operation.
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2 Dec 99
Labour has made £24m available for councils to meet the costs of audit and inspection under the Best Value regime that comes into force in April.
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2 Dec 99
There must be no let-up in health authorities' and trusts' battle to bear down on debt and meet the government's targets, NHS Executive finance director Colin Reeves said this week.
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2 Dec 99
The National Audit Office should be granted greater powers to inspect private companies undertaking public sector contracts, the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, David Davis MP, said last...
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25 Nov 99
A rise of 7% has been forecast in council tax almost three times the rate of inflation in the next financial year, with householders facing an average £56 increase in their bills.
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25 Nov 99
Councils have accused the government of penalising them for innovation by denying them cash for policies which are later recommended and funded by the government.
16 Dec 99Hundreds of teaching jobs are at risk following the ending of Section 11 grants to local authorities. The grants are paid for teachers to help residents for whom English is a foreign language.
