The public sector procurement process is excluding small businesses and is overly skewed in favour of large and well-established firms, according to a new report.
Local authorities fear they may be excluded from crucial decision-making after housing associations dominated a government programme to provide low-cost housing for more than 11,000 key public sector...
Fierce clashes over the government's privatisation agenda were averted this week with the early closure of the Trades Union Congress in Brighton, but union activists warned that they would press...
The Whitehall watchdog, the Commons Committee on Standards in Public Life, is considering imposing stiffer codes of conduct for ministers and special advisers.
More than 200 firefighters and dozens of police officers were still missing in New York 36 hours after the cataclysmic terrorist attacks on September 11 which are feared to have cost thousands of...
Ministers' attempts to convince unions that the public sector is safe in government hands failed this week when plans to give extra rights to state employed staff who switch to the private sector...
The Employers Organisation is demanding a 'joined-up' approach to public sector pay negotiations after this year's talks left many authorities facing a wages bill they cannot afford.
Paramilitary intimidation made 1,900 Northern Ireland families homeless last year, according to the annual report of the Housing Executive published last week.
Scottish local authorities face a major reorganisation of backroom functions such as payroll and council tax collection as ministers increase the pressure for more joined-up work between councils.
Prime Minister Tony Blair will step into the lions' den next week when he delivers an address to the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress in Brighton.
Public sector spending on IT is set to soar by 13% per annum for each of the next two years, according to a survey from Kew Associates and Computer Weekly magazine. Total spend by the public sector...
The government should plug the nursing recruitment gap rather than spend increasing amounts of money on temporary staff, the Royal College of Nursing argued this week.
The government launched its blueprint for the future of secondary schools this week, granting ministers reserve powers to curtail failing schools while promising high performers new freedoms.
Labour leaders at Camden council are heading for a showdown with members over plans to revive a Private Finance Initiative that has already been rejected.
There is one way to deal with an unfavourable inspection, and that is to not publish it. Steve Brown explains how some local authorities are managing to escape being named and shamed
