The Fire Brigades Union is to press ahead with a ballot for its first national strike over pay in 25 years, while employers have been left to make last-ditch attempts at negotiations after the...
Parliamentarians and patients' bodies have blasted NHS managers for failing to make modifications to dangerous anaesthetic machines.
Health minister David Lammy this week announced that 139...
Students who volunteer to help in the community should earn a reduction in the cost of going to university, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research.
In a report due to be published...
The Liberal Democrats are to unveil a package of criminal justice polices at their annual conference next month, including the creation of a new Ministry of Justice to replace the Lord Chancellor's...
Councils in the capital are facing more strike action after three unions agreed to step up their campaign for an increase in London weighting this week.
At a meeting between Unison, the T...
The Ministry of Defence has done little to reduce the risk of British troops being killed by so-called 'friendly-fire' - a decade after
it was warned about problems with combat identification...
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...
Regional Development Agencies should turn their attention to improving child care, according to the Trades Union Congress.
The organisation claims that Britain's productivity is suffering because...
Government plans to exempt existing care homes from controversial environmental standards could lead to a two-tier system of care for older people, claim social services chiefs.
Under the...
Members judged responsible for their authority's failures could be stripped of decision-making powers and replaced by 'partnership boards' under government plans to deal with poorly performing...
The local government reforms will turn authorities into 'performing dogs', desperate to please ministers in order to win a small measure of freedom, a leading local government figure has warned....
Business leaders have expressed reservations about new Treasury guidance stipulating that public sector clients should be able to veto the refinancing of Private Finance Initiative deals.
The Association of London Government maintained that it was 'business as usual' this week after the sudden departure of its director of local government finance, Stephen Fitzgerald.
Further education colleges are claiming they could face serious budget problems in the coming year because of changes in the way that money is allocated from the standards fund.
The radiology treatment of up to half a million people is being delayed as patients wait for scans, the Audit Commission revealed in Radiology, a report published this week.
An open competition including independent assessors is to be held to find a successor to Gurbux Singh, who resigned as chair of the Commission for Racial Equality this week.
Scottish Borders Council is downplaying reports that the Scottish Executive and Scottish Enterprise have backtracked over public funding for a £77m rail project that could help the area.
A senior figure at the Equal Opportunities Commission could head the inquiry into local government pay - an investigation that will be undertaken in the wake of this week's historic wage deal for...
'More flexible' methods of paying dentists for NHS treatment will be tested as part of a two-year pilot scheme that could overhaul health service dentistry, the government said this week.
The 4Ps, the agency set up to help local authorities deliver public-private partnerships, is to expand into all avenues of procurement under a new executive director, it was announced this week.
