Local government employers and their recognised trades unions signed a partnership agreement this week guaranteeing greater consultation with employees and their representatives throughout the Best...
Local health schemes, such as the development of diabetes care or minor injuries units, face the axe as a result of the government's change of direction on funding.
Winning money for new recruits from the crime-fighting fund could be conditional on police authorities signing up to the new national communications project.
Civil service unions are set to agree a ground-breaking 'partnership agreement' with the Cabinet Office and Treasury which offers guarantees of consultation on management changes in return for...
Short-termism and vague targets set by councils are hampering innovative work on regeneration and economic development, the Audit Commission warned this week.
Housing could lose out to other local authority services once all council capital allocations are thrown into a single pot, according to an expert on housing finance.
A new standardised service for testing the satisfaction of tenants living in council and housing association properties was launched this week by the National Housing Federation.
Northern Ireland health officials have recommended that a new £75m hospital, most probably financed with private cash, should replace two hospitals that won plaudits for their care of victims of the...
Hilary Armstrong will rule out, for the time being, directly elected chambers for the newly formed regional development agencies (RDAs). This reflects the prime minister's view on the issue.
Council leaders in Burnley are in urgent talks with the government over how to clear their housing debt ahead of the proposed transfer of the authority's entire stock to a housing association.
The Housing Corporation has apologised to five housing associations for not warning them that they were to be publicly criticised over the size of their rent increases.
In another age, there were people known as Kremlinologists. These experts would be wheeled out on British television and radio to discuss the significance of every minor change in personnel made to...
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has confirmed that local authorities will be able to introduce congestion charges, with the revenue ring-fenced for local transport schemes.
Liverpool's local education authority is being pushed into privatising most of its services without being allowed to consider the alternatives, ministers were told this week.
A central government crackdown that will allow greater ministerial intervention into failing schools, councils and police authorities was formally outlined this week.
The government is to offer financial incentives to keep 16 to 18-year-olds in education and training as part of a package to stem 'a lost generation' of youngsters.
