Councils are being urged to create ‘naked streets’ with fewer signs, traffic lights and what campaigners call clutter. The call has come from the charity Living Streets, a national organisation ...

Local people will soon be able to demand their council takes action on underperforming schools and hospitals, drink disorder, anti-social behaviour and other concerns under new rules giving real power ...

Changes are needed in the way drugs are evaluated according to experts who say patients and health services are getting a poor return on their investment into new drugs. In an article published on bmj ...

New measures have been unveiled to speed up planning decisions and to encourage local authorities to make use of a power being introduced soon to raise funds from developers to support local ...

The Department for Education and Skills plans to use partnership working as a lever to improve educational standards.There are already many examples of successful partnerships within educational ...

Kate Priestley has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of NHS Estates. She succeeds John Locke who left the Agency at the end of August 1997 to become Chief Executive at Property Advisers to the ...

This report sets out the findings from a survey of the business community on their views of the way regulations are enforced by local councils and fire and rescue services. The majority of businesses ...

A range of new ideas – many of them thought up in discussions with older people – are transforming the older person’s experience of services from their local councils.Today (Friday), several of those ...

Funding given to the police in April 2009 to deter criminals and increase the prospect of conviction is now delivering results. The technology they bought included automatic number plate recognition ...

The importance of play in children’s development is well understood by child development theorists, early years practitioners and those offering play provision for older children. Children’s ...

Almost 200 million pounds is being made available for three Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder projects in the north of England. The funding has been announced by the Deputy Prime Minister who said it ...

Looks at government policy formation in Australia and the quality of the policy advisory services that assist government ministers to reach policy decisions. Develops a new model of ‘value-creating’ ...