Public sector workers have emerged as the winners in a survey scrutinising the ethical investment policies of the 100 largest occupational pension schemes.
A private firm has angered unions by following its takeover of school support services in Bradford with an immediate warning to 1,000 former council employees to expect staff reductions.
The leader of Birmingham City Council fears ministers may have to impose a mayoral referendum on the city to sidestep continual opposition by councillors.
Labour councillors in the London Borough of Camden have rejected their own plans for a Private Finance Initiative scheme to redevelop the crumbling Haverstock School.
The Housing Corporation is making important strides to employ more women and people from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups at all levels of the organisation, says chief executive Norman Perry.
Fifteen local authorities have been asked to explain successive high increases in council tax, as ministers restated their readiness to impose some form of spending controls in future years.
Sweeping reforms to the body that regulates doctors moved a step closer last week as the General Medical Council backed proposals to give a greater role to lay people.
Local councils are being invited to bid for a share of £25m being put up by the government to extend the street warden scheme. Councils will have to match the central payment from their own budgets...
The revolt against public-private partnerships gathered pace in the Labour Party this week as backbench MPs moved to join forces with the unions to protect public services.
The foot and mouth crisis looks set to become the agricultural version of the Millennium Dome fiasco as the National Audit Office launches an investigation into the government's handling of the...
The government's relationship with the main public sector unions took another downward turn this week when the teaching union, the NASUWT, said plans to privatise education services were 'dubious'...
Councils and the police can now impose curfews on children as old as 15 if they deem them anti-social, following new laws that came into effect on August 1.
A report that criticises the first Private Finance Initiative hospital to be opened in England has been labelled a 'whitewash' by public service union Unison.
The head of the body representing Scotland's independent care homes is threatening to demand that local authorities are stripped of their elderly care responsibilities, blaming councils for the...
London Mayor Ken Livingstone is likely to appeal against this week's High Court decision to give the go-ahead to the government's plans for partial privatisation of the London Underground.
The government has announced the locations of the first 16 centres of vocational excellence which are designed to boost young people's skills in fields where there are job vacancies.
Final contracts that would allow the private sector preferred bidders to begin work on London Underground's deep Tube lines could be delayed by a further six months until next spring.
The Queen's golden jubilee next year will give 20 towns across Britain the chance to compete for the coveted status of cities, the government has announced.
