The government has backed down from its plans to introduce a category of advanced schools.
Education Secretary Charles Clarke said a new specialist system would be created instead, with all schools...
Social services directors this week urged the government to delay the introduction of council fines for hospital 'bed-blocking', as a critical report by the National Audit Office exposed the extent...
Councils hoping to pump millions of pounds into rundown housing were dealt a major blow this week when the government closed off one possible route for borrowing money.
Transport for London chiefs were this week warned they must make the city's congestion charging scheme an immediate success or it will be 'a lethal body blow' to public-private partnerships.
Just when we thought we'd seen the back of Mr Blobby, once the stalwart of Saturday night television, his pink head has reared up in Lancaster City Council's Blobbygate scandal.
The Private Finance Initiative is delivering most central government building projects on time and at, or below, estimated cost, the National Audit Office said in a report this week.
Employers and the Fire Brigades Union are to meet next week for 'substantive talks' after the apparent intervention of the Deputy Prime Minister as peacemaker this week.
Public bodies have given the thumbs-up to the government's plan to merge the accounting profession's watchdogs into one 'super-regulator' following a year-long review of the sector.
Prison reformers have demanded a review of the Home Office's policy of jailing minors after a damning report was issued this week on the privately run Ashfield young offenders institution in...
Local government employers this week attempted to play down the impending 'crisis' caused by rising numbers of teachers seeking to leave the profession.
Mayor Ken Livingstone's Transport for London will finally be given control of the capital's Underground in early summer after a deal with the government this week.
Westminster City Council warned that it was on a 'collision course' with the Office for National Statistics this week as the row over census data escalated with the publication of the final local...
The government faces a 'significant obstacle' to its aim of achieving a world-class education system because too many young people are still being failed by poor schools.
The Treasury has opened its doors to the prospect of allowing councils to raise and control more funds locally, according to Paul Boateng, the chief secretary to the Treasury .
Tax rises of up to £11bn a year could be needed to finance government spending plans, according to forecasts published this week by the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Child protection agencies have joined forces to try to stop vulnerable children slipping through the net as Lord Laming's damning report on the Victoria Climbié case was published.
Vacancy rates for GPs are rising rapidly, putting pressure on family doctors and making it more difficult for patients to get appointments, the British Medical Association said this week.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone is on the point of sealing a deal with the government to transfer the London Underground to his control, after a prolonged dispute over a possible £1.5bn funding gap in...
A decade-long catalogue of failures by the Lord Chancellor's Department and a private contractor has turned what should have been a straightforward IT scheme into arguably 'the shoddiest Private...
Health Secretary Alan Milburn has announced a new deal for NHS consultants, which is being hailed in many quarters as a move to give senior doctors sabbaticals of up to three months.
