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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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FINANCE

Services will be boosted by pooling budgets, says NAO

By Jonathan Werran | 19 March 2013

Government should learn lessons from the ‘whole place’ community budget pilots in pioneering bett...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Osborne approves single pot growth fund

By Jonathan Werran | 18 March 2013

Chancellor George Osborne accepts bulk of the 89 recommendations in Lord Heseltine’s growth revie...

FINANCE

NFI saves public purse £1bn

By Jonathan Werran | 18 March 2013

National Fraud Initiative has helped prevent more than £1bn of public money being lost to fraud, ...

FINANCE

Schools 'under strain' funding 250,000 new places, watchdog warns

By Jonathan Werran | 15 March 2013

NAO report questions if funding allocations to local authorities are sufficient to cope with lar...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Consortium wins contract to assess troubled families programme

By Jonathan Werran | 15 March 2013

Ecorys UK consortium lands deal to independently evaluate the DCLG’s £448m troubled families prog...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Conservative London Assembly group stages walkout in welfare row

By Jonathan Werran | 14 March 2013

Conservative London Assembly members quit meeting amid complaints of exclusion from City Hall’s s...

FINANCE

Treasury urged to commit support to pensions cash

By Jonathan Werran | 14 March 2013

Local government finance experts have warned town hall pension pots are not banks which the Treas...

FINANCE

Osborne under pressure amid capital growth fears

By Jonathan Werran | 14 March 2013

Chancellor George Osborne has come under fire for using government cash on a council tax freeze w...

WHITEHALL

Committee reveals true 'risk' of early cutbacks

By Jonathan Werran | 13 March 2013

An influential Commons committee warns, the coalition's focus on making quick cuts risked undermi...

HEALTH

York chief accepts horsemeat apology from Iceland boss

By Jonathan Werran | 13 March 2013

Iceland chief executive apologises to York City Council leader for offence caused blaming local a...

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