The health service must change the way it measures performance if it is to make a success of franchising arrangements for failing trusts, the NHS Confederation has warned.
A debt-ridden telecommunications firm with Whitehall contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds is still bidding for new deals despite filing for bankruptcy protection in the US.
Further education colleges have been promised less red tape after the Learning and Skills Council announced it would simplify the system of clawing back funds.
Shire district councils this week stepped up their campaign for 'fair reform' of the local government finance system, after it emerged that the replacement for the current scheme was unlikely to...
Outsourcing specialist Capita Business Services this week claimed that it was 'naïve and not negligent' in its role in the collapse of the government's Individual Learning Accounts scheme.
Unison this week raised 'serious concerns' over the potential scope for public sector employers to push experienced staff into early retirement to save money on pensions.
Philip Mawer, 54, the most senior aide to Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, was approached to apply for the job of parliamentary commissioner for standards because of the poor quality of the...
Ken Livingstone has been forced to tone down his ambitious plans for London's transport network, after he reluctantly agreed a deal to save the capital's 2002/03 budget.
The government reiterated its strategy to target Class A drug users as it announced figures which, it claimed, showed early treatment for users was producing big financial savings for the criminal...
Local government minister Nick Raynsford has confirmed that councils will be allowed to invest in money market funds, as revealed two weeks ago by Public Finance .
All top-tier local authorities will be given a 'scorecard' marking their overall performance by the end of this year, under plans published by the Audit Commission.
The NHS must become a 'world-class employer' if it is to deliver the high levels of care demanded by patients, Prime Minister Tony Blair said this week.
More than half of local authorities have met the government target of putting 25% of services on-line by the start of this year, according to research published this week.
Education watchdog Mike Tomlinson praised teachers for improving the quality of education on offer in England's schools as he published his annual report for 2000/01.
Prisoners in jail for non-violent crimes may be allowed out on weekdays to work and to see their families under prison reforms announced by Home Secretary David Blunkett on February 4.
Whitehall's largest union is to hold more strikes in benefits offices after the Department for Work and Pensions refused to hold conciliation talks in the long-running dispute over staff security.
Stephen Byers' April deadline for implementing changes to the Best Value regime will almost certainly be missed as the review he set up remains mired in stalemate.
Local Government Secretary Stephen Byers this week revealed that he was prepared to review the controversial local government categorisation system announced in the recent white paper.
