Local authorities are questioning the 2001 census data published this week after they showed population drops that could knock millions of pounds off their government grants.
The Liberal Democrats have voted in favour of a wide policy review of public services which sets out plans for radical decentralisation and a health tax to fund the NHS.
Estelle Morris's political prospects had been looking so promising. Popular with teachers and the public alike, it seemed a certainty that she would be a long-standing and well-liked education...
Tony Blair is set to go on the attack over the Private Finance Initiative at the Labour Party conference next week, where a motion calling for a moratorium on new deals is likely to be passed by...
Devolution campaigners have attacked as an 'insult' a claim by business leaders that elected assemblies will be full of mediocre politicians not up to the challenges their regions face.
The government is spending almost as much building affordable housing as it gives away in discounts to council tenants who buy their homes under the right to buy scheme.
Motorists caught persistently trying to evade paying London Mayor Ken Livingstone's £5-a-day congestion charge will have their cars clamped and impounded in a tough 'three strikes and your car is out...
The Fire Brigades Union has dismissed suggestions that it will co-operate with the independent review into the fire service now that a prominent trade unionist has joined it.
Kingston upon Hull City Council has been ordered to go back to the drawing board after Nick Raynsford rejected the crisis-hit authority's recovery plan.
Housing minister Lord Rooker has threatened to ignore the advice of government lawyers and publicly support stock transfers before tenants have been balloted by their local authority.
Linda Dickens, professor of industrial relations at Warwick Business School, is the unanimous choice to chair the local government pay commission, the body set up on the back of this year's prolonged...
Over the past year public services have become by default a key issue for the Liberal Democrats. Internal rows and specialist groups have dominated its policy-making.
Business leaders this week launched a scathing attack on regional transport policies adopted by the government, local authorities and service contractors.
The structure of Network Rail, the not-for-profit successor to Railtrack, will be 'unaccountable, introverted and deeply flawed', according to a leading think-tank.
The Greater London Authority has described its newly awarded AA+ credit rating from agency Standard & Poor's as an 'impressive achievement' for a relatively new organisation.
When Tony Blair steps up to make his vital rallying call at the Labour Party conference in the first week of October, his government will be facing the most concerted challenge yet from public sector...
Resurgent trade union power and support in the public sector is likely to be short-lived unless unions can adapt to rapidly changing workplaces, the influential Fabian Society has declared.
