NHS managers gave a qualified welcome to this week's announcement giving greater independence to the best trusts but remained sceptical over Alan Milburn's masterplan for a brave new world in the...
Britain's first Asian permanent secretary, Suma Chakrabarti, broke more new ground this week by agreeing a family-friendly working week in his new job at the Department for International Development...
A private consortium selected as a preferred bidder for the government's proposed public-private partnership for the London Underground has denied claims that ministers are about to pull the plug on...
Ministerial intervention into Britain's largest council looks inevitable after Birmingham this week strongly rejected the government's calls for a referendum for a directly elected mayor.
Unions and the private sector are still wrangling over the details of the government's Best Value review three weeks after the final deadline for talks, leaving the timetable for reform looking...
Ian Blair, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, has warned that the force's 2002/03 financial settlement could throw the capital's policing into 'crisis', despite a likely...
A government-funded campaign aimed at dismissing the image of the UK as a soft touch for asylum seekers has been scrapped after only 17 of 17,500 refugees at the controversial Sangatte Red Cross...
The Local Government Information Unit has responded to what it described as a 'patronising', 'simplistic' and 'pseudo-scientific' local government white paper by establishing an independent...
Council leaders have accused Mayor Ken Livingstone of 'attempting to bleed Londoners dry' with his suggested 35% increase in the Greater London Authority precept.
Northern Ireland's ambulance workers held an emergency meeting this week to consider strike action in protest at continuing attacks after a brick was thrown into an ambulance, injuring two paramedics.
Nurses will feel 'sorely let down' by a pay rise that will give experienced staff nurses an extra £9 a week, according to the Royal College of Nursing.
MPs have warned the Housing Corporation to keep a tight rein on the risk management of registered social landlords as the sector comes under increasing financial pressure.
The Local Government Association has attacked the recent local government finance settlement for ignoring the increased demands being made on councils over personal social services.
Teaching unions spent last week squabbling among themselves over figures released by the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers, which claimed that head teachers were hoarding...
Westminster City Council has said it will pursue all avenues to track down the £27m owed it by former leader Dame Shirley Porter and her deputy David Weeks.
The government has lost millions of pounds because of poor accounting by civil service departments in Northern Ireland, according to the province's financial watchdog.
English and Welsh local authorities this week raised serious concerns over the level of accountability of private sector decision-making under local strategic partnerships.
