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20 Apr 00
The government has taken responsibility for all asylum seekers in Kent in an attempt to take the pressure off the local authority.
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20 Apr 00
The government has come under renewed attack over transport spending with the Confederation of British Industry demanding a £209bn package for improving roads, rail and airport systems.
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20 Apr 00
Some 32 councils around the country are preparing to revolutionise voting during the local elections next month.
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20 Apr 00
The government must introduce legislation to help improve adoption services and deliver a joined-up approach, the Local Government Association said this week.
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20 Apr 00
In 1997, the then-Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland (Dani) backed the wrong horse when it agreed to pay a company called Irish Sport Horse Genetic Testing Unit Ltd in Co Fermanagh up to...
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20 Apr 00
Just as the NHS is becoming accustomed to the government's burgeoning reform demands, the National Audit Office decides to roll up its sleeves and join the modernisation melee.
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20 Apr 00
The Department of Health came under fire from the British Medical Association this week following claims that doctors had been misled over the distribution of cash designed to ease the burden on GPs...
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20 Apr 00
The Public Accounts Committee has slammed the Child Support Agency for failing to improve its performance and for continuing errors in its assessments.
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13 Apr 00
The highest-paid councillor in the country has agreed to take a pay cut.
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13 Apr 00
Scotland's largest public-private partnership scheme to rebuild Glasgow's secondary schools would not have been affordable without additional government funding, the city's finance director told...
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13 Apr 00
A committee of MPs has castigated the NHS Executive for its failure to manage investment in IT projects and warns that without a major 'sea change' its £1bn strategy will not deliver value for money.
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13 Apr 00
Public services need to take a systematic approach to quality and should consider introducing peer group assessment to judge how standards have improved, CIPFA's chief executive told delegates at the...
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13 Apr 00
No council will be warned or capped over council tax increases for 2000/01, ministers decided this week.
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13 Apr 00
Labour reaffirmed its faith in the Private Finance Initiative this week when local government minister Hilary Armstrong unveiled 14 new schemes, totalling £300m.
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13 Apr 00
Auditor general Bob Black used last week's CIPFA Scottish branch conference to defend his controversial policy of not naming councils and NHS trusts that have performed badly in audit reports.
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13 Apr 00
The government has opened the multi-million pound schools' IT market to a wider range of private companies, including Internet developers and film-makers, to try to increase competition and raise...
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13 Apr 00
The NHS is struggling to cope with demand for diabetes services and faces a rising number of patients as the population ages, the Audit Commission warned this week.
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13 Apr 00
The Office of the Rail Regulator has been criticised for weak regulation.
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13 Apr 00
Software supplier Microsoft and management consultant the Barony Group have launched a blueprint to help local authorities reach the government's targets for electronic delivery of services.
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13 Apr 00
Health Secretary Alan Milburn launched a countrywide consultation programme with NHS staff and patients this week and said it should lead to a new Beveridge report that will shape the health service...
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13 Apr 00
The Ministry of Defence claimed this week it was on target to meet its Public Service Agreement of delivering £700m worth of receipts by 2002 from the sale of its surplus assets.
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13 Apr 00
Councils must be given 'freedom and flexibility' to help deliver the government's ten-year strategy to renew deprived neighbourhoods, the Local Government Association warned this week.
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13 Apr 00
London Transport's chief executive has admitted to MPs that London Underground would still face a 'funding gap' if the proposed £8bn public-private partnership went ahead.
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13 Apr 00
The government launched a stinging attack on the quality of adoption services this week in what could be the first move to loosen local authorities' grip on social services.
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6 Apr 00
The slow and painful negotiations to shore up the ailing Pimlico School PFI deal have been given a new lease of life with a last-minute extension of the credit allocation for the project.
20 Apr 00The government has taken responsibility for all asylum seekers in Kent in an attempt to take the pressure off the local authority.
