The newly elected senior executive of the Public and Commercial Services union is to meet next week to plan what it promises will be a 'hard-hitting and long-term campaign' to challenge the...
Local authorities will continue to play an important part in education despite government moves to give schools greater control over their finances, Education Secretary Charles Clarke insisted this...
Government plans to strip councils of most of their education responsibilities will rupture relations between Whitehall and county hall, the Local Government Association's new chair has warned.
The National Audit Office looks set to be the body to assess whether the planned multi-billion pound savings widely expected to be outlined in the imminent Gershon report are actually being achieved.
A sign of a more aggressive Whitehall emerged this week with the Cabinet Office's summary dismissal of contractor ITnet after an £83m project looked in danger of becoming delayed and over-budget.
Scottish Finance Minister Andy Kerr is to include financial management in senior civil servants' personal performance targets in an effort to tackle underspending by the Executive and public bodies.
Scottish local authorities have called on ministers to agree to a budget of £9.3bn to fund basic services over the next year, according to proposals submitted in advance of the Spending Review.
Council budgets for 2005/06 will be thrown into turmoil next week when the Office for National Statistics finally accepts that its 2001 Census was flawed.
A government programme to support disadvantaged families with young children is already delivering visible benefits, according to preliminary results of a long-term evaluation project.
Senior civil servants this week warned that more needs to be done to follow up public inquiry recommendations, or Whitehall and governments will never learn the lessons from events such as Dr David...
CBI director general Digby Jones has demanded that all savings achieved by Sir Peter Gershon's efficiency review are independently audited so that ministers' claims of success can be verified.
A tenfold increase in the bill for transferring the government communications headquarters (GCHQ) to new accommodation has been slated by the Commons' Public Accounts Committee.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone's second term could prove tougher than the first after Conservatives warned that they will do all they can to 'rein in' the mayor's spending.
Cabinet Office officials this week warned civil servants that there would be no return to national pay bargaining, despite acknowledging claims by Whitehall's largest union that there had been a '...
The stalemate over pay and conditions in local government has been broken with employers and unions agreeing to consult on an improved 8.9% three-year pay deal.
Senior civil servants at two key departments are struggling to meet Chancellor Gordon Brown's dramatic efficiency targets, putting in doubt Whitehall's ability to deliver the wider Gershon agenda,...
Mental illness costs Northern Ireland almost £3bn a year more than its health and social care budget according to the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health.
An influential Scottish Parliament committee has rejected local authority claims that cash generated by efficiency savings should be reinvested by individual councils.
The Scottish Executive has again missed its targets for paying bills on time, leaving millions of pounds outstanding, according to figures disclosed this week.
