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.
The Local Government Association has backed David Blunkett's overhaul of the asylum system in the face of grassroots criticism over plans for induction centres in rural areas.
The appointment of Mike Tomlinson to replace the combative Chris Woodhead as chief inspector of schools and head of Ofsted has brought a welcome change of tone, MPs have said.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
Commons leader Robin Cook and Lord Irvine, the lord chancellor, are at loggerheads over the reform of the House of Lords, according to Whitehall sources.
The government has given nurses renewed hope of higher wages and more flexible working hours after it revealed that the NHS had reached its target of recruiting an extra 20,000 nurses three years...
The government this week unveiled plans to pilot electronic voting across England and Wales but the proposals were immediately called into question by a report highlighting the potential for fraud...
The government is considering a radical change to the structure of the Local Government Pension Scheme as it seeks to reduce the rising cost of contributions from the public purse.
Local government employers are preparing themselves for the worst pay dispute 'in a decade' after negotiations with trade unions broke up without agreement this week.
Boxing fans denied the prospect of a Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson match-up would have been well advised to turn their attentions to Cardiff last weekend, as the government and unions squared up to each...
The NHS is investing in the healing power of poesy. The organisers of Poems for the Waiting Room hope to inject some humanity into the service by soothing patients with sonnets and displaying...
Meetings of the Northern Ireland Assembly have been cut and key legislation postponed because of 'creeping inertia' in the power-sharing executive, say Stormont sources.
