Registered social landlords are generating increasing funds from activities other than social housing.
New figures show that income from non-core activities rose by 22% in 2001/02 from £662m to £...
The government has failed to think through the impact of its plans to build hundreds of thousands of extra homes in the Southeast, according to the Commons committee scrutinising Deputy Prime...
Every local authority will be asked to explain its education budget decisions in an attempt to resolve the row between ministers and councils over allocations to schools.
Education Secretary...
Rail maintenance and building contractor Jarvis will have only support functions in its controversial new contract to advise education authorities on good practice.
Disclosure this week of the £21....
Health minister John Hutton has urged nurses to become hospital governors as part of the government's foundation trust reforms.
Speaking at the Royal College of Nursing's annual conference in...
The Criminal Records Bureau is to place more of the administrative burden for criminal checks on employers while charging them for new services under plans to generate much-needed revenue for the...
Local authority employers are demanding sweeping changes to the 'nine-to-five' working culture and a radical overhaul of the national pay bargaining system to modernise town hall working practices...
A replacement for Northern Ireland's 11-plus examination will be recommended by a working group before the end of October, the province's acting education minister, Jane Kennedy, has announced.
The...
May 1 was to have been the date when elections occurred in each of the three devolved nations of the United Kingdom Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Except, as is so often the case in the...
Social landlords should compete for the right to manage houses transferred from local authorities, a leading lender said this week.
Competition might raise the quality of post-transfer management...
Foundation trusts will not be able to opt out of the NHS's Agenda for Change pay deal, Health Secretary Alan Milburn confirmed this week as he launched a concerted campaign to quash opposition to the...
Failure to cut the number of injuries to staff is costing the NHS millions of pounds a year, the National Audit Office said this week.
The government set national improvement targets in 1999 for...
North Tyneside's elected mayor, Chris Morgan, has resigned after being questioned by police on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children.
Morgan, one of 11 US-style executive mayors...
Local government is still plagued with 'severe' recruitment and retention problems that are placing unmanageable burdens on staff, forcing councils to privatise services because they cannot afford to...
A three-year government review of rent restructuring has been criticised by the Chartered Institute of Housing for avoiding major questions.
The review, launched by the Office of the Deputy Prime...
Councils ranked 'excellent' in the Comprehensive Performance Assessments are becoming increasingly frustrated at the government's failure to deliver the promised freedoms and flexibilities.
The 22...
Local authority spending has risen by 26% since 1998, according to a new survey, with education leading the way.
The survey, by market intelligence service Key Note, shows that councils spent £77....
Non-profit-distributing public interest companies have a 'potentially important role' to play in public service delivery, says a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research. But it warns...
Just one in five young voters bothered to show up at the polling booth in the 2001 general election, the first major study of first-time voters has shown.
Researchers found that only 21% of 18 and...
Primary care t rusts must prepare for an exodus of clinical managers over the next two years, according to a survey by the NHS Alliance.
The body, which represents PCTs, said that half the doctors...
NHS consultants this week threatened industrial action over their contracts despite the government's abandonment of plans to make them work over weekends and in the evenings.
Last year, consultants...
Home Secretary David Blunkett's plans to open offshore 'processing centres' for asylum seekers coming into Europe will not work unless they are accompanied by an overhaul of migration management, a...
Ministers are poised to create the first urban development corporation in ten years in an attempt to help house-building east of London.
Proposals for a UDC in Thurrock, Essex, were published by...
Local authority housing departments will no longer undergo an annual performance assessment under a new funding regime coming into force next year.
Although regional government offices must be told...
