Four NHS chief executives have resigned after a damning report found their Scottish region was riddled with infighting and a lack of financial understanding.
Birmingham's housing department should be broken up into 35 community-based organisations, according to the commission set up after tenants rejected stock transfer.
The London Assembly and the Association of London Government are independently to evaluate the capital's congestion charge scheme following Transport for London's decision to conduct its own...
Northern Ireland's largest programme of public sector infrastructure rebuilding was announced on December 11 by acting finance minister Ian Pearson in the province's annual Budget.
Local government leaders are finally seeing local tax-raising powers within their grasp after Gordon Brown indicated that authorities would be able to keep rates income generated by encouraging new...
The prime minister has pledged that all primary and secondary schools will have high-speed Internet access by 2006 as part of a £6bn information technology spend over the next three years.
Further education colleges are to receive an extra £1.2bn in funding over the next three years but resources will be dependent on reaching performance targets, Education Secretary Charles Clarke...
Paul Boateng has lashed out angrily at the CBI after it accused the government of hitting business with a £47bn tax bill to pay for improvements to public services.
Social services are on the verge of collapse, despite the government's promise of a 6% increase in spending in each of the next three years, the King's Fund said this week.
Transport commissioner Bob Kiley has attacked London Regional Transport for giving 'illegal' financial guarantees to one of the consortiums involved in the controversial part-privatisation of the...
The Office for National Statistics this week mounted a staunch defence of the way it compiled the 2001 census after fears about the data grew.
Members of the London Assembly are urging its budget...
The independent review into the fire service will not be rushed into reporting early, its chair told Public Finance this week as ministers and the TUC scrambled for a solution to halt the impending...
'I hope he's got a way out of this,' a sceptical union leader muses of his colleague Andy Gilchrist, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union. Gilchrist's 50,000 members are poised for the first...
Business will not be forced to provide workers in public-private partnerships with the same terms and conditions as those in the public sector, the director-general of the CBI has warned.
Top NHS hospitals will be put off applying for foundation trust status if the proposed new regulator is not truly independent, NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards warned this week.
Londoners could face a huge rise in council tax next year to pay for Mayor Ken Livingstone's spending plans, after the capital's police and fire services said they needed a rise of £35 per household...
Too many social service departments are failing to provide well for their clients, according to a new report from inspectors. Sixteen of the 30 councils that have had their social services reviewed...
