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.
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...
The performance of local education authorities has little bearing on pupil attainment and government policies to connect the two are 'unrealistic', Ofsted said this week.
Plans to fine councils deemed responsible for causing bed blocking in hospitals have been attacked as 'costly, unworkable and flawed' by the Local Government Association.
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.
The public services unions angrily kicked open the 'door of discussion' of Labour's reform agenda that Prime Minister Tony Blair had left ajar at the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool this week.
Paul Kirby, the Audit Commission's director of inspection, has resigned from his post just weeks before local authorities are given the results of their Comprehensive Performance Assessments.
