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.

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 ...

Local government pension funds could soon be made available build more homes, roads or high speed railway under new proposals. The proposals potentially allow councils to double the amount they can ...

Two thousand delegates are expected to attend the Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit in January, which will be the largest event of its kind to be staged in this country. The Deputy Prime ...

Older people in Wales are to be allowed to use local authority swimming pools without charge in the first national scheme of its kind anywhere in Europe. The Free Swimming pilot will allow anyone over ...

New research indicates that the public sector may not yet have felt the full impact of the recession. The survey by BT Global Services also reveals that senior executives in the sector are pessimistic ...

Ten local authorities are involved from this week in the next stage of a project looking at how the provision of boarding school places might be used to improve life chances for some vulnerable ...

Harrow Council has completely automated its handling of parking fines by introducing an online appeals and payment process for penalty charges via its website (www.harrow.gov.uk). Since August 2012, ...

Maureen O’Hara and Graham Leicester explore the competencies – the ways of being, doing, knowing and organising – that can help us navigate in complex and powerful times. They argue that these ...

Some one billion pounds of funding from the Private Finance Initiative is helping to deliver the greatest programme of school building and modernization the UK has ever seen. Almost 500 schools are ...

Six out of ten nurses are working in excess of their contracted hours and a quarter of that overtime is not being paid for according to evidence which the Royal College of Nursing is to submit to the ...

The leaders of England’s eight major cities will hear details of the Government’s vision for their future when they come together for the Core Cities Summit today and tomorrow. The Communities and ...