An ageing population presents a series of issues that must be addressed now, if millions of people are to have a decent old age. Rebecca George looks at the challenges ahead
Senior MPs this week criticised the government's flagship academy schools programme for failing to control costs, with almost two-thirds of the first buildings running over budget.
Chancellor Alistair Darling has taken a tentative step towards a national savings scheme, in which savings made by low earners would be matched with state payments.
Stock transfers from councils to housing associations have helped create a two-tier workforce among staff employed by the same landlord, a union has claimed.
The new chancellor's first Pre-Budget Report forecast a temporary dip in revenue and slowed the growth in spending. Both of these pose risks for the government's grand plans for public services
News that adult social care funding will be frozen in real terms was sweetened slightly by the confirmation that the government will consult on a radical overhaul to the system.
Local Government and Communities Secretary Hazel Blears is under pressure to sign up to an 'accord' to eradicate child poverty, after Chancellor Alistair Darling's Comprehensive Spending Review...
Ministers should not force the Jobcentre Plus agency into further job cuts or they risk undermining progress in helping people off benefits and into work, backbench MPs warned this week.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission came into being this month, bringing all equality issues under one roof. Is this a great leap forward in the fight against discrimination or a messy merger of...
The Comprehensive Spending Review is imminent but Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andy Burnham still has some juggling to do not least to find the funding for the PM's new plans for public services...
Experts from across government, education, business and the public sector are being brought together to draw up a strategy for adult education in the UK.
Police forces are unable to show whether new systems of managing telephone calls from the public are delivering the intended benefits or providing value for money, Audit Scotland has found.
The grumblings from public sector trade unions are growing louder as Gordon Brown prepares for his first Labour Party conference as prime minister next week. But the strike threats over the pay rise...
After the fallout from Northern Rock, next month's Comprehensive Spending Review has suddenly become a lot more interesting. Colin Talbot charts the changes ahead for public spending and targets...
Public servants could co-ordinate a fresh wave of strikes to coincide with the Queen's Speech, as opposition to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's 2% pay cap intensified following heated exchanges at the...
Gordon Brown and David Cameron might make out they are miles apart when it comes to education policies. But former No 10 adviser Conor Ryan finds plenty of common ground
Mature students who receive Income Support may have to drop their courses under government proposals to cut Child Benefit payments and force lone parents back to work, Public Finance has learnt.
Twenty-five finalists have been selected by the judges of the Public Servants of the Year Awards to go forward to the high-profile ceremony in London next month.
No wonder the King's Fund had to take it upon themselves to commission Sir Derek Wanless's review of progress against his 2002 recommendations on funding the NHS.
There has been a lack of progress in helping people with mental health problems access benefits and find work, according to research published this week.
A rise in lone parent employment might have put the government on course to meet a crucial Public Service Agreement target, but 10% of the UK's population still lives in workless households.
& nothing gained. Or so say the growing army of private equity investors in public services and assets. Paul Gosling explores the pros and cons of such partnerships for the public sector
