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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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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...

WHITEHALL

Voting watchdog condemns 'mistaken' assumptions over PCC vote

By Jonathan Werran | 19 March 2013

Home Office ministers ‘mistakenly’ assumed very act of holding first-ever Police and Crime Commis...

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...

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