Unions launched a campaign this week to expand local government's deal to end the two-tier workforce into defence and health.
As the CBI and the Business Services Association savaged last week's...
? ??ew Foster, the outgoing controller of the Audit Commission, talks to Mike Thatcher
Vincent Square will be a much quieter place when Sir Andrew Foster finally moves on later this year. The...
The reward for pharmacists in England and Wales informing on benefit fraudsters has gone up sevenfold. Under an initiative announced this week, they will now be able to claim a £70 reward, up from £...
Teachers will leave the profession if the government imposes the 2.9% pay rise recommended by the School Teachers' Review Body last week, the National Union of Teachers has warned.
The union...
A last-minute intervention by Prime Minister Tony Blair is likely to avert a public row at Labour's local government conference this weekend after unions were granted substantial concessions to end...
Local authorities were this week puzzling over how to pay for a government plan to put cafés, crèches and web experts in every public library.
Arts minister Tessa Blackstone,...
Councils are failing to detect four-fifths of housing benefit frauds, the National Audit Office said this week. The government has also made the system more complex and prone to fraud, despite...
The controller of the Audit Commission has hit out at the government for pressurising the watchdog to penalise certain councils in the Comprehensive Performance Assessments published last December...
Visions of 200,000 new houses, millions of pounds to regenerate declining areas in the Midlands and the North, and at least £1bn for houses for key workers dominated Sustainable Communities, John...
Just when we thought we'd seen the back of Mr Blobby, once the stalwart of Saturday night television, his pink head has reared up in Lancaster City Council's Blobbygate scandal.
Employers and the Fire Brigades Union are to meet next week for 'substantive talks' after the apparent intervention of the Deputy Prime Minister as peacemaker this week.
Local government employers this week attempted to play down the impending 'crisis' caused by rising numbers of teachers seeking to leave the profession.
Westminster City Council warned that it was on a 'collision course' with the Office for National Statistics this week as the row over census data escalated with the publication of the final local...
Councils hoping to pump millions of pounds into rundown housing were dealt a major blow this week when the government closed off one possible route for borrowing money.
The Treasury has opened its doors to the prospect of allowing councils to raise and control more funds locally, according to Paul Boateng, the chief secretary to the Treasury .
Child protection agencies have joined forces to try to stop vulnerable children slipping through the net as Lord Laming's damning report on the Victoria Climbié case was published.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn has announced a new deal for NHS consultants, which is being hailed in many quarters as a move to give senior doctors sabbaticals of up to three months.
Employers and the Fire Brigades Union were effectively given a deadline of three months to negotiate a strike settlement or face a loss of substantial power as the patience of the government finally...
Council tenants, trade unionists and councillors descended on Westminster this week to increase pressure on ministers to give local authorities the same rights as housing associations.
