Home Secretary David Blunkett has admitted that the Home Office lacks the funds to implement fully all the measures contained in this week's ambitious criminal justice white paper.
District Audit and Inspection Service functions are to be integrated for the first time under a shake-up of internal structures unveiled by the Audit Commission this week.
Whitehall departments that benefited from Gordon Brown's largesse in Monday's long-awaited Spending Review will be expected to meet 'demanding' national targets.
The right to buy should be phased out as council and housing association tenants are encouraged to gain a financial stake in their home, a report suggested this week.
It is highly unlikely that a Civil Service Bill would seek to cap the number of special advisers in government, the new head of the civil service has said.
Keith Hellawell, the government's former 'drugs czar', has resigned from his role as a part-time government adviser over plans to downgrade the classification of cannabis.
Relations between central and local government need to be radically transformed and much of Whitehall's power relinquished to town halls, Iain Duncan Smith has told local government leaders.
Union leaders have branded as a 'disgrace' Tony Blair's refusal to intervene in the local government pay dispute as the first national strike by council workers in 23 years looms next week.
'Sometimes the civil service is very efficient. Within five minutes of a secretary of state going, you have your redundancy papers,' says Dan Corry, the former and now infamous special adviser to...
GP practices are facing 'dire' recruitment problems and are struggling to achieve the government's modernisation agenda, according to British Medical Association GP leader Dr John Chisholm.
County councils could lose up to £800m as a result of proposed reforms to the distribution of the Standard Spending Assessment unveiled by the government on July 5.
The leader of Redbridge council in London has pledged to stop a new racecourse being built in the area. Plans for the multi-million pound track at Fairlop Waters are well advanced, but newly elected...
Dan Corry, the former special adviser to local government secretary Stephen Byers, is to take over as executive director of the New Local Government Network.
Just one in four local authorities believes that it will be granted greater financial freedoms as a result of the Comprehensive Performance Assessment framework, research has revealed.
Devolution campaigners have warned that elected regional assemblies will not reflect the people they serve unless the government allows more flexibility over the number of members.
The Department of Health should adopt a more proactive role when the National Institute for Clinical Excellence issues recommendations on drugs or treatments, MPs said this week.
The introduction of a controversial accounting standard that could expose billions of pounds of pension fund liabilities in the public sector has been delayed, it was announced this week.
The government's controversial Private Finance Initiative will be scrutinised in a Parliamentary report calling for a radical overhaul of UK accounting practices in the wake of the scandals at Enron...
