The unions are to press again for a fair wages resolution in public-private partnerships following the promise of a review into the two-tier workforce last week. But the private sector has...
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.
Education officials are to concentrate on reform of the A-level system following the conclusion of an independent inquiry into the recent marking fiasco.
Paul Kirby is to play a crucial role in the government's drive to reshape public services after being appointed head of reform strategy at the Cabinet Office.
Public service unions are hopeful that Tony Blair's speech at the Labour Party conference in Blackpool this week offers a renewed opportunity for debate over the vexed question of the use of the...
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...
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...
Home Secretary David Blunkett has launched a spirited defence of government asylum policy in the face of attacks which likened planned accommodation centres to the Millennium Dome.
The hit squad sent in to turn around the Criminal Records Bureau is to examine the role of both the Home Office and outsourcing firm Capita in the crisis over criminal checks, the home secretary said...
