Tory spending proposals have been heavily criticised by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) for failing to demonstrate support for arm's-length management companies or the Private Finance...
A pilot project using Internet technology to educate children who are not attending school has produced impressive results and is set to be rolled out across the country.
A leaked document from the Institute for Public Policy Research on the future relationship between public services and private contractors may foreshadow a total reorganisation of health, education...
The Royal College of Nursing has welcomed the Liberal Democrats' manifesto promise to use higher taxes to recruit more nurses and give them a £1,000 pay rise.
The Private Finance Initiative this week emerged as an unlikely and crucial general election issue with the government's record on public spending being attacked on several fronts.
The government's long-awaited proposals to regenerate the ailing Post Office network by extending banking services to the financially excluded were unveiled this week. After months of wrangling, the...
Ideological differences between the main political parties on how to improve public services emerged this week as the general election campaign finally got under way.
Prime Minister Tony Blair's vision of installing directly elected mayors in English cities is looking increasingly shaky as previously pacesetting authorities apply the brakes.
The troubled £660m national stadium project was left in limbo this week after the Football Association said it could no longer afford to finance the scheme, forcing the government to step in.
The beleaguered Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) has asked for advice from its remaining members on how to improve its services, revamp its structure and recover from the defection of...
Twenty-two of the poorest neighbourhoods in England have secured a total of more than £1bn in central government regeneration funding over the next ten years.
Social landlords bidding for money from the Housing Corporation's Safer Communities Supported Housing Fund no longer have to raise matched funding from a local authority.
The Treasury has saved £6.5bn on the housing benefit bill since 1996 because of restrictions on claims introduced by the last government, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
GPs are angry that much is evident. The actions of those who on May Day closed their surgeries to all but emergency cases led family doctors to be mentioned in the same breath as the militant anti-...
Doctors and managers backed Health Secretary Alan Milburn this week as he announced sweeping reforms to decentralise the NHS and cut at least £100m from the service's administration to plough back...
The Audit Commission has announced the results of its largest audit services' procurement exercise in which it awarded 38 'framework' contracts worth £34m.
The Housing Corporation must be careful not to 'throw away its good work' when its new regulatory framework for housing associations comes into effect, according to the National Audit Office.
Westminster City Council is planning to set up its own team of 'enforcers' to tackle the 'Ibiza-style yob culture' said to be blighting the West End of London.
Transport funding in Scotland is lagging way behind that of England and is producing a two-tier system, according to the chairman of the government's Commission for Integrated Transport.
