Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt has indicated the government is prepared to review public service procurement in the UK after union and business leaders slated Labour's current approach.
Unions warned the government this week that they could 'no longer drag their heels' over the two-tier workforce after Labour's favourite think-tank said the issue was stalling progress on public...
Local income tax is to be put forward as a possible means of generating revenue in the Association of London Government's submission to the government's Balance of Funding Review.
The Public and Commercial Services union will go to an employment tribunal if a government ministry does not ditch plans to pay external recruits higher salaries.
The Scottish Executive is to fund an increase in the number of teachers and police officers and take the first steps towards introducing free eye and dental checks as a result of a £525m spending...
Teaching unions have attacked the government for trying to limit the number of teachers receiving salary rises through performance-related pay, claiming that this will have a 'devastating' effect on...
A Conservative government would dismantle the 'command state' constructed by the Labour party and radically decentralise public services, according to a policy document setting out the party's reform...
Senior trade unionists have warned that a government forum set up to discuss public services reform will quickly fail unless Labour entertains the idea of direct policy changes.
Met Office officials were in talks with the Department of Health this week to try to save a project that uses weather data to help the NHS cope with seasonal pressures.
The saga of Westminster's missing residents may now be resolved as preliminary results from an investigation have shown the 2001 census may have missed 25,000 households.
Politicians take up their cudgels again on September 8 after their lengthy summer break, and this autumn the fighting is likely to be fiercer than usual.
The baby boom generation could push the public services to breaking point if they force the government to bow to their consumerist demands, according to a leading think-tank.
Health ministers' proposed overhaul of NHS finances came under fire this week, with one senior analyst claiming that plans to standardise prices for patient treatments were based on 'dubious...
Ministers should still expect a rough ride over public services during the conference season, but the influence of the 'awkward squad' of unionists may have diminished following the establishment of...
Transfers of council housing to new social landlords are creating more jobs but leaving some employees concerned about their future, a study for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister shows.
Audit Scotland is developing a new system of auditing Best Value in Scottish councils which will bring a 'significant change' in approach and put the emphasis on performance results.
Entire Whitehall departments should be shifted out of London and re-sited in cities such as Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and Leeds, the think-tank Catalyst argued this week.
Plans to extend body-piercing regulation to all local authorities in England and Wales have been criticised as 'wishy-washy' by one London authority, which has overseen the practice for more than a...
