The public services unions angrily kicked open the 'door of discussion' of Labour's reform agenda that Prime Minister Tony Blair had left ajar at the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool this week.
Scottish Borders Council is downplaying reports that the Scottish Executive and Scottish Enterprise have backtracked over public funding for a £77m rail project that could help the area.
Local authorities should push ahead with rapid adoption of the controversial accounting rule FRS17 or face a separate standard that could unveil £2bn of pension fund liabilities across the UK,...
Treasury guidance used to judge the value for money of Private Finance Initiative schemes is to be reformed in a drive to ensure 'more robust' government spending decisions.
Local government minister Nick Raynsford faces new arguments over the government's code of practice on the two-tier workforce after the long-awaited draft was published this week.
The ground-breaking public-private partnership between Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire County Council was hanging in the balance this week after fears over the long-term future of one of the...
The Spending Review has confirmed what many expected: large increases in resources for many public services. The Budget had already told us how far the overall spending envelope would grow, and laid...
Westminster City Council this week granted the biggest-ever outsourcing contract in local government history but failed to ease staff fears that they could be relocated outside London as part of...
The introduction of a controversial accounting standard that could expose billions of pounds of pension fund liabilities in the public sector has been delayed, it was announced this week.
GPs have urged the Department of Health to implement immediately proposals that would slash their paperwork and enable them to see another 100 patients each per year.
Home Secretary David Blunkett has laid out his vision of a Britain free from racial prejudice and described the country as an open nation 'enriched by immigration'.
An attempt to replicate Scotland's proposed system of free care for elderly NHS patients across the rest of the UK is likely to end in failure, Derek Wanless has warned.
The government's refusal to allow local authorities to offer in-house stakeholder pensions could lead to a surge in popularity of the Trades Union Congress's version of the retirement package.
The government is understood to be considering creating a Department for Devolution in the wake of this week's rushed dissolution of the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.
Is it ministerial refusal to bow to pressure to change the face of public sector benefits? A surprise affirmation of unions' power to influence policy? Or a deliberately vague document that hides a...
Trade unions have reacted with anger to the Local Government Best Value Review findings, unveiled this week, claiming that ministers have failed to tackle adequately the contentious issue of the two-...
The Commons' health select committee has delivered an equivocal verdict on the Private Finance Initiative in its long-awaited report on private sector involvement in the NHS.
The UK's biggest civil service union has demanded assurances from ministers that its e-government initiatives will not lead to substantial job cuts, after the e-envoy indicated that there could be...
A £90m Private Finance Initiative scheme for schools in Newcastle was this week heralded as 'the future of local service provision in the region', after a historic agreement extended workers'...
