There may have been relief when the draft Local Government Bill published with requisite fanfare by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott last week finally emerged.
Stock transfers could become more expensive if large urban authorities are encouraged to switch their housing to a series of registered social landlords.
Department of Health officials have admitted they will have to go 'back to the drawing board' after a pilot system for reporting medical errors proved to be under-reporting mistakes.
Central government must give councils a 'level playing field' in how they finance capital projects and stop forcing them to use the Private Finance Initiative, according to an expert panel.
Nick Raynsford has promised there will be 'no backsliding' by ministers on reform of local government as he outlined details of the long-awaited draft Bill published this week.
The government's refusal to allow local authorities to offer in-house stakeholder pensions could lead to a surge in popularity of the Trades Union Congress's version of the retirement package.
Unison is gearing up for a head-on collision with the government as its annual conference looks set to reverse the union's support for ministerial proposals on the two-tier workforce.
Labour has retained control of the Association of London Government, following a decision to divide representation of the capital's hung councils evenly between the three major parties.
Walsall Borough Council is almost certain to be the second authority to suffer direct takeover by the government after an Audit Commission report this week castigated its continuing financial...
Campaigners in Bath have brought their demands for the creation of a new unitary authority for the city to Parliament by handing in a petition signed by thousands of residents.
Stock transfers must become more attractive if the government is to achieve its target of bringing all council homes up to standard by 2010, housing professionals warned this week.
An influential Labour backbencher this week claimed that the government is unlikely to grant substantial autonomy to local authorities, despite acknowledging that it must help councils improve...
The government is 'not hostile' to the idea of a local income tax and will shortly set up a high-level working group to examine the balance of local authority funding, the Treasury's chief economic...
The number of elderly people being readmitted to hospital soon after discharge has risen sharply and measures designed to ease NHS bedblocking could make matters even worse.
Scottish local government leaders have endorsed Jack McConnell's future legislative programme as one that will make a 'real difference to real people'.
