Councils in Scotland say lack of funding means roads that should be resurfaced every ten to twenty years are waiting an average of eighty-one years to be dealt with. The figure was given by the ...

This new report gives an overview of changes resulting from the New Deal for Communities Programme which is designed to narrow gaps between the 39 most deprived localities and the rest of the country.

Although elected members of councils have been taking decisions about e-government for several years, a large number have been reluctant to dip their toe in the information technology pool. This is ...

New systems for processing ballot papers, such as those used in the election of London’s mayor, may be heading for redundancy. The next development is Internet voting using a personal computer, ...

Council leaders have warned they will campaign in force if the Government does not renew the Post Office’s contract for administering its benefits card scheme. MPs have criticised a delay in the ...

Nick Oettinger, managing director at R&R Beds, comments on the rise of furniture poverty in the UK and why the public sector needs to do more to help families in need of basic household furniture.

The DETR has received so many letters from people frustrated by their neighbours’ refusal to reduce the height of leylandii and other high garden hedges, that it has produce a guide available on the ...

The Institute of Public Finance has come to the aid of those who are struggling to find a way through the maze of e-governments organizations and processes with an ‘e-Government Route Map’. It sets ...

Unions say cuts in public spending would lead to thousands of jobs being lost and limit Britain’s ability to lift itself from recession as well as bringing reductions in important services at a time ...

Council fraud detection has increased by over one third in the last year, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Councils have succeeded in detecting £185 million worth of fraud in 2010/11, an ...

Public Sector organisations will share in the latest award of funding to improve life in the workplace. Innovation was the key factor for successful bids to the Department of Trade and Industry’s ...

Elected councillors and officers of local authorities are overloaded with information from the Local Government Association. This is one of the key findings of the MORI Survey which examined ...