Local government leaders are finally seeing local tax-raising powers within their grasp after Gordon Brown indicated that authorities would be able to keep rates income generated by encouraging new...
The government's affordable housing strategy ran into trouble this week when the Ministry of Defence admitted it could not stop 25 homes at an Essex army barracks being sold off.
Head teachers this week denounced the core proposal of the long-awaited independent report on the summer's A-level fiasco: the idea that the two-tier exam should be separated into stand-alone...
The government's use of public sector targets often referred to as 'targetitis' should reflect 'meaningful outcomes for those using and providing services', the chair of the Local Government...
Top-performing authorities will be exempted from ringfenced funding as part of the package of freedoms and flexibilities finally unveiled by ministers this week.
The reorganisation of health services in Wales will improve co-operation between the NHS and councils, the Welsh Assembly's minister for health and social services claimed this week.
Westminster City Council's record-breaking £224m outsourcing contract for street cleaning, announced last week, could have been run in-house for £4m a year less than the annual £32m it will cost...
Councils need to be more vocal in their opposition to the Comprehensive Performance Assessment if local democracy is to survive, the chief executive of Westminster City Council has warned.
After months of delays, the much-heralded Local Government Pay Commission was finally unveiled this week amid claims by trade unions and councils that the 'other side' was expecting too much from...
Pharmacists are keen to develop their services to patients but are not receiving adequate support from primary care trusts, the King's Fund said this week.
CBI focuses on needs of 'Joe Public'
Putting the consumer first was the focus of a new approach to public-private partnerships enshrined in the Confederation of British Industry's much-heralded '...
NHS hospitals in the north of England provide better care for their patients than their counterparts in the south, according to the health service's own watchdog.
The two largest classroom teaching unions went on a one-day strike in London this week over their demand for an increased allowance to cover the cost of living in the capital.
The part-privatisation of Britain's air traffic services became an 'appalling mess' because the government failed adequately to test the financial durability of the project, MPs claimed this week.
NHS trusts that are developing Private Finance Initiative projects should not place 'undue emphasis' on demonstrating savings against a Treasury-funded project, the National Audit Office said this...
Local authorities could raise an extra £65m under new government proposals to end the automatic entitlement to a 50% council tax discount for second homes.
