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Partnership for Schools axed by Gove

By Jonathan Werran | 07 June 2011

Education quango Partnerships for Schools (PfS) has been closed down and replaced with the Educat...

HEALTH

Downing Street mandarin snared in Southern Cross crisis

By Jonathan Werran | 07 June 2011

The civil servant in charge of Downing Street has become embroiled in the Southern Cross care hom...

WHITEHALL

Questions raised on potential public sector strikes

By James Evison | 07 June 2011

Questions have been raised regarding possible controls on unions undertaking large-scale public s...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Ofsted wants new adoption checks to put children first

By Jonathan Werran | 07 June 2011

Ofsted has launched a consultation on proposed changes for the inspection of adoption and fosteri...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Councils report 1,000 community asset transfers are underway

By Laura Sharman | 06 June 2011

Councils report 1,000 asset transfers already underway according to a survey of councils by the A...

HEALTH

Southern Cross faces care home offload

By James Evison | 06 June 2011

Troubled care home provider Southern Cross could offload as many as 200 homes in order to avoid b...

WHITEHALL

Health and education departments go their own way with PFI schemes

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

Education ministers are planning to build new schools under PFI, while counterparts in Health fav...

FINANCE

Councils missing out on shared services cost savings

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

Local authorities are failing to use shared services to drive cost savings and efficiency gains, ...

WHITEHALL

Naked civil servant exposed

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

The DCLG has confirmed reports that a senior official has been suspended for using Twitter to mak...

FINANCE

Councils failing to plan for savings targets

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

A quarter of councils don’t expect to meet savings targets by 2014 and 40% have no approved plan ...