The Local Government Association has teamed up with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to develop a tool designed to help local authorities deliver real improvement in the services they provide ...

National Health service patients, doctors and nurses are to be asked for their views on a new system of managing information as part of a major consultation on patient privacy to be carried out by the ...

The task of the new procurement division of the Highways Agency will be to streamline buying and issuing of contracts in order that the roads programme is speeded up in line with the government’s ...

Thirty eight more English local authorities have been given approval for plans to transfer more than 94,000 council homes over the next two years, as part of the continuing drive to refurbish social ...

More detail has emerged about the new ‘countryside agency’ due to start next April following the merger of the Countryside Commission and Rural Development Commission.The new merged agency will have ...

Electronic counting equipment will be used for the first time in next year’ selections for a Mayor and Assembly in London.Minister for London Keith Hill has announced that in those elections, ballot ...

South-west local authorities led the way in the NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards run by the Improvement and Development Agency Intelligent Addressing to recognise outstanding service delivery by councils ...

Neighbourhood watch programmes have been operating in the UK for more than a quarter of a century and this report assesses their effectiveness. Neighbourhood Watch is based on the principle that ...

This document is designed to help public sector bodies think about the benefits of e-government such as making them easier to access, more convenient to use, more responsive and more transparent. It ...

Manchester is to launch the biggest community legal advice service in England and Wales. The nine million pound scheme will see six new centres being opened in communities where local people have been ...

Local authorities’ role in scrutinising health services has helped to bring about an increasingly constructive and collaborative approach between health bodies and local councils in achieving public ...

The number of schoolchildren regularly missing school has fallen by almost 140,000 over the past 2 years. Figures from the Department for Education show that in the first two terms of the current ...