The government launched its blueprint for the future of secondary schools this week, granting ministers reserve powers to curtail failing schools while promising high performers new freedoms.
Prime Minister Tony Blair's e-government targets are looking increasingly shaky as councils struggle to put together plans and industry experts call for a more realistic timescale.
Labour leaders at Camden council are heading for a showdown with members over plans to revive a Private Finance Initiative that has already been rejected.
The government's £180bn transport plan will have no effect in tackling the gridlock on many of Britain's roads, according to a leading business think-tank.
There is one way to deal with an unfavourable inspection, and that is to not publish it. Steve Brown explains how some local authorities are managing to escape being named and shamed
The Commission for Health Improvement has handed out its fiercest criticism yet of a hospital trust, declaring the Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust in Surrey as in urgent need of improvement.
The government has been granted £225m from the European Commission in what is likely to be the first of many payments to help those affected by foot and mouth disease.
Like the sound of English batsmen's stumps being shattered, the picture of students, especially women, celebrating ever-better A-level results has fast become one of the traditional images of our...
Some 163 children, half of them pre-school age, are living in temporary accommodation and classified as homeless in the Western Health and Social Services Board area of Northern Ireland, according to...
The prime minister is pushing the Department of Health to consider using health facilities run by French, German, Italian and Spanish health care providers in a radical move to cut NHS waiting lists...
The Liberal Democrats are to launch an autumn attack on the Private Finance Initiative in an attempt to expose the 'real' costs of the controversial schemes.
First Minister Henry McLeish has risked confrontation with unions and councils by making his strongest commitment yet to the Blairite programme of public services modernisation through private sector...
The long-running dispute between private care homeowners and local authorities in Scotland has ended, following an agreement to set up an independent review group to examine funding.
The government's attempts to increase the number of successful adoptions by setting up a national register must not obscure the needs of children, the Association of Directors of Social Services...
Dame Helena Shovelton's annus horribilis came full circle this week when the government announced it would not re-employ her as chair of the Audit Commission.
Unions have given a lukewarm welcome to government plans for a £250m sweetener for teachers based in the Southeast who are priced out of jobs because of escalating property prices.
Public sector workers are threatening industrial action in protest over Newcastle City Council's moves towards greater partnership with the private sector.
Refugee groups have called on the Home Office to give councils more cash towards the dispersal of asylum seekers following the murder of a Kurdish man in Glasgow this week.
