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Ann McGauran

Ann McGauran

Journalist and content editor with 20+ years specialising in public policy. Still learning.

Articles by Ann McGauran

Charity threatens legal action on changes to safeguarding laws

By Ann McGauran | 20 May 2020

A charity has threatened legal action against the Department for Education (DfE) if it does not w...

Next stop: delivering homes and growth

By Ann McGauran | 19 May 2020

The Government is looking for ‘shovel-ready capital projects’, says public corporation LCR. Peter...

A 'trusted national database of volunteers' can support councils during COVID-19

By Ann McGauran | 13 May 2020

RVS has provided a radical way to mobilise a volunteer army to help councils and the NHS provide ...

Transformation delivers flexibility in a crisis

By Ann McGauran | 11 May 2020

Craig Cusack and  Rob Powell talk to Ann McGauran about how Warwickshire CC’s transformation prog...

ONS - COVID-19 death rates significantly higher for social care workers

By Ann McGauran | 11 May 2020

Men and women working in social care both have significantly raised rates of death involving COVI...

Yorkshire councils could declare themselves 'bankrupt' in months

By Ann McGauran | 11 May 2020

Chief executives across Yorkshire and the Humber region have already discussed the prospect of ma...

ONS - Black people four times more likely to die from COVID-19 than whites

By Ann McGauran | 07 May 2020

Black males and females are more than four times as likely to die from a COVID-19 related death t...

Middlesbrough heads English councils at risk

By Ann McGauran | 06 May 2020

Middlesbrough is now the local authority with the greatest health risk in England from coronaviru...

'High risk' staff are being forced back, claims Unison

By Ann McGauran | 04 May 2020

Unison is demanding Milton Keynes Council steps back from what it says is a ‘rogue local plan’ to...

Heed us on contact tracing, urges public health chief

By Ann McGauran | 01 May 2020

Councils’ public health teams and their leaders need to be at the heart of discussions about any ...