An Ofsted report published this week revealed that six first-round Education Action Zones had failed to raise educational standards in secondary schools and, apart from 'small-scale' activities,...
Staff across the public sector could be wasting thousands of working hours surfing the Internet for pornography, booking holidays or even managing their stocks and shares on-line, an exclusive survey...
A black and minority ethnic (BME) housing association this week emerged as the largest single beneficiary of the Housing Corporation's investment programme for 2001/02.
Partnerships UK, the Treasury-owned body set up to oversee joint ventures between the public sector and the business community, is itself to become a public-private partnership.
The probation service must balance conflicting local and national demands on its resources if it is to improve its services, according to the Audit Commission.
Bristol's Labour councillors may be dismayed after the city's residents shot their education spending plans to pieces last week in the first budget referendum to be held in a major city.
The Local Government Association has called on European institutions to tackle accusations of 'top-down' decision-making by renegotiating relations with other tiers of government.
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has given the clearest signal yet that if Labour wins a second term in government it will set up elected regional assemblies.
Crisis-ridden Hackney Council has launched a fraud investigation following the discovery of irregular cash transfers between bank accounts, Public Finance has learned.
Local government leaders are breathing a sigh of relief following publication of the government's long-awaited white paper on the knowledge economy on February 13.
Sir Michael Bichard, permanent secretary at the Department for Education and Employment, has announced unexpectedly that he will leave Whitehall at the end of May.
Although local authority fraud is down for the first time in ten years, councils still face an uphill battle to control housing benefit fraud, the Audit Commission warned this week.
A last-minute £188m cash injection into this week's local government finance settlement may not be enough to head off mounting pay and service pressures, warn councils.
A south London borough's £1bn-plus regeneration programme is under the spotlight after the shock resignation of its mayor from the Labour group last week.
A consortium of Welsh local authorities is demanding the Home Office keep its promise to reimburse them for money spent developing services to help asylum seekers.
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has pledged an extra £100m for the government's neighbourhood renewal fund, doubling the amount of money being given to deprived areas next year. The money is in...
