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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...