The Welsh Assembly's finance minister has defended in resolute terms the decision to 'rebadge' Best Value and dilute the role of external inspection in the principality.
The government has suspended the Individual Learning Accounts scheme two weeks ahead of schedule after police made 39 arrests in connection with alleged fraud and theft.
One hundred NHS trusts are generating a turnover of £10m as part of the health service's latest money-spinning idea, the Department of Health said this week.
Northern Ireland's health service has been thrown into crisis by a cash shortage, according to Dr Joe Hendron, chair of the Assembly's health committee.
The Private Finance Initiative has so far failed in its mission to increase substantially investment in Britain's public services, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The Association of Police Authorities (APA) has launched a four-pronged self-assessment and continuous improvement programme under the auspices of Best Value.
A research study commissioned by the Treasury to test the effectiveness of public-private partnerships ran into trouble this week when it was accused of partiality.
Prejudice in central government circles against the ability of councils to deliver service improvement helped derail Best Value in Wales, according to one of the principality's most prominent local...
NHS managers are flocking to unions in the wake of growing concerns that they are being made unnecessary 'scapegoats' for failures in health, according to the FDA.
Members of the panel overseeing the government's review of Best Value were still being appointed as it prepared to meet for the first time last week, Public Finance has learned.
Local authorities reiterated their opposition to any enforced reorganisation this week as the government set a clear timetable for elected regional assemblies.
English councils are set to receive an increase of around 7% in grant when ministers unveil the provisional 2002/03 finance settlement next week, Public Finance can reveal.
The Employers Organisation is to set up a graduate training programme to try to attract some of the brightest and best university students into a career in local government.
Social housing needs billions of pounds more in funding from 2003/04 onwards to tackle social regeneration and to provide 20,000 extra homes per year, the government was told this week.
MPs have called for a dedicated minister for events to co-ordinate major sporting projects and other large-scale schemes in response to the 'mess' made of Britain's attempt to host the 2005 World...
Wendy Thomson, head of the Office for Public Service Reform in the Cabinet Office, has thrown her weight behind the idea of a genuine and extensive transfer of powers to local service deliverers, in...
Education Secretary Estelle Morris has pledged to free teachers from their administrative burden so they can concentrate on teaching, after consultants recommended reducing their workload.
Opposition parties have condemned the one-horse race to decide the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party and with it the role of first minister as 'pathetic'.
UK local authorities are edging ahead of their US counterparts in offering public services on-line, according to research published by an e-government business group.
The government's drive to increase diversity across Whitehall's white, male-dominated workforce is in danger of stagnating, the First Division Association warned this week.
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Unison members at Westminster City Council have threatened to walk out over plans for a £1bn outsourcing contract intended to improve customer services.
