London Mayor Ken Livingstone has broken public sector pay barriers by offering up to £2m over four years to lure 'the best in the world' to London's top transport job.
Ministerial interference in next year's finance settlement is threatening to divide local government, with London boroughs accusing the government of trying to cheat them out of £49m to placate its...
Home Secretary Jack Straw has distanced himself from a report which calls for the merger of the Commission for Racial Equality, the Disability Rights Commission and the Equal Opportunities Commission.
In politics, appearance is everything. With a general election looming, ministers have their beady eyes trained on the all-important National Health Service.
Hospital workers in Dudley have launched a fifth round of industrial action in protest against plans to outsource staff in an £88m Private Finance Initiative project.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn ushered Best Value into the NHS last week, abandoning almost two decades of compulsory market testing in support services such as cleaning and catering.
Management's annual conference in Harrogate that Michael Portillo's proposal to boost overall health care spending by removing taxes on private health insurance 'shattered the postwar consensus on...
Education minister Jacqui Smith is preparing to eat her words this week as the government maintains its increasingly desperate attempts to keep Pimlico School's ailing Private Finance Initiative deal...
Local authorities are being urged to press ahead with setting up arm's-length housing management companies 18 months before they will be allowed to spend any extra money on their stock.
A directly elected mayor for just 22,000 people is hardly what Tony Blair had in mind for his new system of political governance, but one of England's smallest boroughs is leading the mayoral race.
The head of the Refugee Council has warned the government that the dispersal scheme for asylum seekers could collapse unless it makes a concerted effort to win the support of local authorities.
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott faces a barrage of legal and industrial action if he presses ahead with the partial privatisation of London Underground, after an independent report dubbed the...
The chief executive of the King's Fund has issued a stern warning to Tony Blair and the government to give full and enthusiastic support to the public services. Otherwise, says Rabbi Julia Neuberger...
Child support services are close to collapse in the Vale of Glamorgan, according to a report on the council's social services described by one Whitehall official as 'the most damning we have produced...
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is being strongly tipped in Whitehall for the ill-fated post of 'Cabinet enforcer' if Tony Blair wins a second term in government.
Major repair programmes will be slashed and neighbourhood renewal schemes abandoned if the rent income raised by housing associations is seriously reduced, the government has been warned.
The majority of voters in London support Ken Livingstone's proposal to introduce congestion charges on roads in the next two years, according to a survey for the King's Fund health think-tank.
A second-term Labour government would expand the role of regional development agencies and boost their funding to encourage investment and kick-start regeneration in deprived areas.
The European Commission has accused the government of breaking European law over the controversial Pimlico school Private Finance Initiative in a move that has wide-ranging repercussions for other...
Scottish Permanent Secretary Muir Russell has challenged arguments by auditor general Bob Black which dispute the former Scottish Office's choice of a construction management contract system for the...
