Local government minister Nick Raynsford indicated this week that a proportion of the £350m due to be allocated to councils to promote electronic government will be reserved for partnership schemes.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn announced a £2m recruitment package for social workers at the National Social Services Conference in Harrogate on October 17 19.
The London Borough of Hackney's education service will be the first in the country to be run by an independent non-profitmaking trust, school standards minister Stephen Timms has announced.
The government did not impede the development of third-generation mobile phone technology by forcing operators to pay too much for licences, the National Audit Office has ruled.
The Audit Commission this week unveiled a new, less damning scoring system for its Best Value inspections regime after a plethora of complaints from councils and a two-month consultation exercise.
Scotland's controller of audit has rounded on Scottish Borders Council for serious financial management weaknesses which led to a £3.9m overspend in education services.
As the prime minister embarks on his mission to change the world, it seems appropriate that his junior colleagues are left with the more mundane task of reconstructing Britain.
A £300m, two-year cash injection that will be paid directly to local authorities will go some way to relieving bed blocking, the Local Government Association said this week.
Milton Keynes Council and Northamptonshire County Council were this week pushing the boundaries of strategic partnerships after agreeing a short-list of private companies to merge their support...
Elderly people in Northern Ireland are in despair at the loss of home help services as the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety tries to cope with a £120m deficit, claims Unison,...
The future of the Public Private Partnership Programme, local government's advisory agency, was thrown into doubt this week with the departure of its chief executive.
Public-private partnerships could supplant full-scale privatisation as the policy of the future following Railtrack's demise, a conference in Dublin was told this week.
Shadow local government secretary Theresa May has pledged that a future Conservative administration would scrap the Government Offices for the Regions and hand their powers back to local authorities.
Public-private partnerships suffered a new blow this week when the London Borough of Brent rejected a multimillion pound Private Finance Initiative education project because it did not provide value...
Brighton's 'Bingate' crisis, which led to the collapse of a multimillion pound private sector deal in the summer, is threatening to escalate again amid fears that the council cannot afford the cost...
The government successfully defused the expected row over privatisation at the annual Labour Party conference in Brighton this week with the launch of a three-month review of Best Value in local...
The new arrangements were introduced on October 1, categorising elderly patients requiring long-term nursing care into three funding categories £35, £70 and £110 per week following an assessment...
NHS chiefs have called on doctors to vaccinate more than 5.8 million pensioners against flu to try to ease the burden on the health service this winter.
