MPs have delivered a damning indictment of the government's previous attempt to overhaul local government and accused it of failing to meet the objectives of its reforms.
A former chair of the Low Pay Commission is to head the government's independent review into firefighters' pay and conditions as the Fire Brigades Union presses ahead with a ballot for strike action...
SNP leader John Swinney has accused the Scottish Executive of indulging in 'Enron-style accounting' in its presentation of Scotland's cut of July's Spending Review.
A new training scheme for managers who run housing associations set up following stock transfers has been postponed for a second time because not enough people applied to join it.
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.
The NHS in England is to get a further £10m to develop intensive care facilities for critically ill children, health minister Jacqui Smith announced this week.
Almost 1,000 complaints have been made against local councillors in the past four months, since the introduction of a new code of conduct under the Local Government Act 2000.
Local authority leaders are lobbying to keep child protection services firmly in the grip of local communities and councils, rather than under a centrally controlled child protection agency.
This week's war of words on firefighters' pay is rapidly moving towards action as the Fire Brigades Union prepares to ballot for its first strike in 25 years after rejecting outright the government's...
Public workers fail to understand how targets and performance measures fit into their core jobs, the Audit Commission said this week, as its research revealed that many staff were leaving the sector...
Rossendale Borough Council in Lancashire has been given a final warning that it faces government intervention unless it achieves rapid improvement in its services.
Unions and local education authorities are demanding compensation for schools as thousands are closing classrooms and using supply teachers after the Criminal Records Bureau failed to clear its...
Councils will be able to set their own complaints procedures for education and dispose of land at their discretion as the government begins to dismantle its overarching consent regimes.
The leader of Britain's trades union movement this week stepped up the campaign to halt the privatisation of public services, when he warned Tony Blair not to 'charge ahead' with reforms 'assuming he...
Worsening sectarian violence in north and east Belfast is contributing to homelessness in Northern Ireland. More than 14,000 households presented themselves as homeless last year, compared with fewer...
Two of the five biggest awards for unlawful discrimination made by employment tribunals last year were against local authorities, research published this week has shown.
A survey by Equal...
