Local Government Association Liberal Democrat group leader Richard Kemp has criticised proposals from his party's shadow chancellor to slash the pay of top public sector professionals
While the review on allowing NHS patients to pay 'top-ups' without jeopardising the right to free care gathers data, a debate on this emotive subject showed that opinion in the sector is polarised
More than 270,000 civil servants will start a national strike ballot over pay next week, after senior government ministers failed to stem the momentum among public sector unions for widespread...
London's £16bn Crossrail project seemed finally to have left its troubled past behind when Gordon Brown approved it last year. But as the economic crisis worsens, doubts are growing and the scheme...
The NHS is looking at extending the choice of care and treatment to community level. But primary care trusts will have to reconfigure their services in a radical way if patients are to be offered...
The local income tax planned by the Scottish Government is not a local tax but a national levy, which would result in councils becoming the agents of central government, a leading public sector...
Prison officers have threatened to take strike action after it emerged that a computer disk containing the details of 5,000 justice staff had been lost by government IT contractor EDS. Justice...
Local government workers in Scotland are planning a further one-day strike later this month, following the failure of unions and local authority employers to reach agreement on pay
Unions representing council workers in Scotland have threatened further strike action after local authority employers refused to increase a 2.5% pay offer.
The Liberal Democrats will debate a major change to their tax policy at their autumn conference as they try to position themselves as the party to help people through tough economic times.
More and more civil servants now operate at arm's length from Whitehall as part of agencies. But there are suggestions that a Tory government might reverse this trend and attempt a 'radical...
The troubled Social Fund, which provides grants and loans to benefit claimants, has had its accounts qualified for the second year running after auditors identified £85m worth of errors in...
Scottish local authority employers and trade union leaders met this week in an attempt to resolve the pay dispute that led to a one-day strike by 150,000 workers.
The huge number of gleaming new hospitals are a testament to the success of the Private Finance Initiative. But can the policy survive now that it is no longer the only game in town? Mark Hellowell...
The head of the new social housing regulatory body talks to Neil Merrick about how he intends to fundamentally challenge the way that housing associations operate
Plans to replace 46 local fire control rooms with nine regional centres will cost more than double the government's estimates and almost nine times as much as first planned, the firefighters' union...
Opposition politicians have accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown of 'reckless fiscal irresponsibility' after official figures showed economic growth at a standstill and a gloomy outlook for public...
As councils congratulate themselves on increasing household recycling rates, a House of Lords committee has highlighted a problem that could wreck the drive to cut down on landfill. Of Britain's...
