Local authorities are demanding a guarantee from Charles Clarke that the promised 4% funding increase for schools next year will not starve other vital services of cash.
Stronger and more formal links between local public service providers are unlikely to materialise unless Whitehall stands by its commitment to relax its hold over local government, a London council...
Chancellor Gordon Brown had urged Scottish politicians to locate their Parliament in an existing building rather than construct a new one, the Holyrood inquiry was told this week.
Town hall leaders are increasingly confident that radical reform of the funding system is on the way, after ministers agreed to detailed research into the implications of potentially far-reaching...
Pensioner and anti-council tax groups are to oppose the move led by Kent County Council to give elderly people a discount on the amount of tax they pay.
Civil service unions have voiced alarm at the 'extraordinary' pace of a Treasury review aimed at slashing billions of pounds off the government's running costs, fearing it may lead to job cuts across...
Former top Treasury mandarin Lucy de Groot, who until last month was Gordon Brown's director of public services, has said the government is confused about its own philosophy of 'new localism'.
The government has rejected independent research commissioned by the National Union of Teachers suggesting that this year's schools' funding crisis has resulted in the loss of almost 9,000 teaching...
University lecturers have accused the government of trying to hit its higher education expansion target on the cheap after it announced an extra 10,000 foundation degree places.
Home Secretary David Blunkett's plans to build two 'super prisons' to combat the UK's rapidly growing inmate population are unnecessary and ill-considered, it was claimed this week.
Health service boards must begin to think strategically about the impact of soon-to-be-implemented changes, NHS England finance and investment director Richard Douglas told the annual CIPFA health...
Prime Minister Tony Blair's claim that public service investment is 'not disappearing down some black hole' was dealt an immediate blow this week with the publication of figures showing that extra...
One of the largest Private Finance Initiative schemes ever undertaken in UK higher education was formally inaugurated this week as the University of Hertfordshire welcomed students on to its new £...
Housebuilders could construct more than a quarter of a million homes in Britain without developing a single new greenfield site, according to the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
The Scottish Executive is under fire from a senior parliamentary committee over lack of clarity in the spending plans announced in its recent 2004/05 budget.
The Liberal Democrats go into their conference at Brighton next week hoping for a boost from having either won or taken second place in the Brent East by-election, which was due to take place on 18...
Gordon Brown's special adviser has admitted council tax is the key issue facing the 'balance of funding review', as a storm of protest broke out over a ministerial threat to cap rises next year.
New housing associations set up following stock transfers are struggling to meet promises made to former council tenants because they are losing so many homes, says a new survey.
