Members of the Best Value Review Group fear that ministers will fail to effect substantial change because the government is too concerned with juggling the interests of employers and the unions...
The three big public sector unions have overwhelmingly rejected local authorities' pay offer, paving the way for the first national strike by local government staff since the 1970s.
A new 'concordat' between unions and the Scottish Executive could result in fewer private finance deals being signed north of the border, according to the Scottish Trades Union Congress.
The opposition parties launched their local election campaigns this week by targeting traditional Labour strongholds as their battlegrounds while pledging to devolve more power to local communities.
The wind-up of the company behind the much-criticised Millennium Dome was beset by fraud allegations and inadequate record-keeping, but its overall finances improved prior to closure, according to a...
Public services are to receive an extra £4bn in 2003/04, with over half allocated to the health service, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced in this week's Budget.
NHS managers dazzled by this week's £40bn Budget boost called on the government to trust them to improve the health service. But they warned ministers not to expect instant results.
Backbench Labour MPs this week raised fears that NHS trusts were unnecessarily selling off millions of pounds worth of property and land to inject much-needed cash into hospital services.
The firm planning to build a new national stadium in Wembley denied this week that its scheme was faltering, despite fears that a financial healthcheck on the £600m proposal will delay construction...
An independent report on the government's flagship urban education initiative, Excellence in Cities, has praised the introduction of schemes such as pupil mentoring and specialised learning centres...
The Local Government Association and the NHS Confederation have joined forces to press Chancellor Gordon Brown over what they claim is a £1bn gap in social services provision.
The Liberal Democrats pledged to create a 'world-class NHS' with more investment than ever before when they unveiled their alternative Budget on April 8.
A government spending watchdog has warned that public sector comparators are not robust enough by themselves to guarantee the value for money of Private Finance Initiative schemes.
The Treasury has sparked a 'beauty contest' between NHS watchdogs after it suggested that their functions may be merged into a new health service regulator.
Local government minister Nick Raynsford this week announced the latest batch of councils to be awarded Beacon status for their excellence in delivering public services.
The government took the unusual step of publishing an implementation plan for the local government white paper this week but failed to commit itself to a legislative timetable for reforms.
The government's programme of transferring council homes to registered social landlords suffered a major setback this week when tenants in Birmingham rejected a transfer proposed by their local...
Some of the most disadvantaged people in society are missing out on disability benefits because of delays and mistakes in medical assessments, MPs have discovered.
