The proposed shake-up of the Ofsted inspection regime unveiled by chief inspector of schools Mike Tomlinson has been given a ringing endorsement by the Local Government Association.
More than 200 firefighters and dozens of police officers were still missing in New York 36 hours after the cataclysmic terrorist attacks on September 11 which are feared to have cost thousands of...
Heart and lung transplant patients who died at a south London hospital could have survived had they been treated elsewhere, an investigation by the Commission for Health Improvement said this week.
Ministers' attempts to convince unions that the public sector is safe in government hands failed this week when plans to give extra rights to state employed staff who switch to the private sector...
Senior CIPFA officers met local government minister Nick Raynsford this week to press for important changes to the Best Value regime and to discuss other issues concerning councils.
Local authorities could be faced with bills of millions of pounds to clear up old landfill sites, following a recent report in the British Medical Journal which suggested a link between birth defects...
Plans to implement a new model for Private Finance Initiative projects in the NHS have been put on hold while the Department of Health carries out a review of its legality.
The government's £2bn New Deal for Communities programme is helping to cut crime rates and boost the local economy in some areas, the first annual review has shown.
It is unlikely that large numbers of English NHS patients will be sent for treatment to other European Union countries in the near future, Public Finance has learned.
Prime Minister Tony Blair will step into the lions' den next week when he delivers an address to the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress in Brighton.
Public sector spending on IT is set to soar by 13% per annum for each of the next two years, according to a survey from Kew Associates and Computer Weekly magazine. Total spend by the public sector...
The government should plug the nursing recruitment gap rather than spend increasing amounts of money on temporary staff, the Royal College of Nursing argued this week.
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.
The Employers Organisation is demanding a 'joined-up' approach to public sector pay negotiations after this year's talks left many authorities facing a wages bill they cannot afford.
Paramilitary intimidation made 1,900 Northern Ireland families homeless last year, according to the annual report of the Housing Executive published last week.
Scottish local authorities face a major reorganisation of backroom functions such as payroll and council tax collection as ministers increase the pressure for more joined-up work between councils.
