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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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Local audit plans will deliver £650m savings, Government insists

By Jonathan Werran | 29 April 2013

Government also rejects calls to have central procurement agency for audit and give NAO oversight...

FINANCE

Unions to consider 1% pay offer to council staff

By Jonathan Werran | 25 April 2013

Town hall bosses have offered to prevent the local government pay freeze extending into a fourth ...

FINANCE

28,000 town hall workers paid below minimum wage, union claims

By Jonathan Werran | 25 April 2013

Unison’s first annual Town Hall Poor List shows the lowest paid town hall staff earn 1p less than...

FINANCE

Tories set to 'protect' home budgets

By Jonathan Werran | 24 April 2013

Mr Cameron launches the Conservative's local government election campaign, appealing to the Party...

FINANCE

Hurd launches first local government staff mutual

By Jonathan Werran | 24 April 2013

Minister for civil society Nick Hurd launches 3BM, the country’s first local government staff-led...

HEALTH

Think tank tackles barriers to housing for the elderly

By Jonathan Werran | 24 April 2013

Think tanks have been asked to engage in a war of ideas over the best way to house the country's ...

FINANCE

Heseltine predicts local growth funding battle

By Jonathan Werran | 24 April 2013

Former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine has urged local areas to wage 'a people's revolt' in ...

WHITEHALL

Council in bid for MoD centre

By Jonathan Werran | 24 April 2013

Telford and Wrekin Council is hoping to entice the MoD to site its new Logistics Centre of Excell...

FINANCE

Public debt figures suggest state sell-offs, says KPMG

By Jonathan Werran | 23 April 2013

Consultants say minor fall in last year's public sector borrowing indicate Coalition must inject ...

FINANCE

£350m of academy schools expansion cash lost, PAC blasts

By Jonathan Werran | 23 April 2013

DfE wasted £350m amid £1bn overspend during two-year period which saw academy school numbers rise...

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