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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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WHITEHALL

Council chiefs threaten DWP with lawsuit over TUPE plans

By Jonathan Werran | 26 March 2013

Council chiefs have vowed to mount a legal challenge if the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP...

FINANCE

Cameron endorses community budgets push

By Jonathan Werran | 25 March 2013

Prime minister David Cameron approves community budgets guide, saying Whitehall budget 'no match ...

FINANCE

Authority spending will struggle to meet baby boom, says NAO

By Jonathan Werran | 25 March 2013

Spending watchdogs have cast doubt on whether current levels of local authority funding are suffi...

FINANCE

Pensions merger 'may prove costly' for Londoners

By Jonathan Werran | 25 March 2013

Plans to merge London boroughs’ pension pots could result in a £598 increase to the council tax b...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Whitehall's 'single pot funding' is challenged

By Jonathan Werran | 25 March 2013

Experts query the ability of Whitehall departments to deliver the scale of ‘single pot’ Lord Hese...

FINANCE

Pickles urged to rethink rules for ousting chiefs

By Jonathan Werran | 25 March 2013

Local government bodies call on communities secretary to rethink plans to axe job protection meas...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Set up national investment fund for cities, report urges

By Jonathan Werran | 25 March 2013

A Centre for Cities report urges establishment of national 'fund of funds' giving all cities acce...

FINANCE

Budget 2013: more spending round cuts needed by 2015

By Jonathan Werran | 20 March 2013

Chancellor George Osborne today told MPs the coalition had cut the deficit by a third since 2010,...

FINANCE

Local government bears brunt of job losses again, ONS shows

By Jonathan Werran | 20 March 2013

Local government shed 32,000 posts in the last quarter of 2012 compared with a 4,000 fall in the ...

FINANCE

Ofsted urged to scrap plans to monitor councils' school improvement role

By Jonathan Werran | 19 March 2013

Council chiefs strongly urge Ofsted to axe ‘inappropriate’ proposals to scrutinise authority-deli...

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