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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

LGA Conservatives hit back at Shapps in councillors' pensions row

By Jonathan Werran | 10 January 2013

Senior Conservative council chiefs angrily hit out today at Party Chairman Grant Shapps in counci...

Give members more power to handle frontline role, say MPs

By Jonathan Werran | 10 January 2013

An influential group of MPs report councillors should be handed greater powers to fulfil their in...

Merger of W Midlands cash pot wins backing

By Jonathan Werran | 09 January 2013

Lord Heseltine, the Government’s growth adviser, has backed a West Midlands-based pilot which cou...

Merging shared services could 'save half a billion'

By Jonathan Werran | 09 January 2013

Government departments will seek to merge their shared services into five centres, in an attempt ...

Divide and conquer

By Jonathan Werran | 09 January 2013

Jonathan Werran meets a pioneer who straddles the management divide between county and district l...

DCLG says Rochdale is 'wrong' on council tax claims

By Jonathan Werran | 08 January 2013

DCLG accuses Rochdale MBC of being ‘disingenuous and wrong’ in claiming it could increase council...

Honours bestowed on local government officers and members

By Jonathan Werran | 08 January 2013

Council chief executives, councillors, housing bosses and community sector leaders, acknowledged ...

Heseltine backs Greater Birmingham's local growth pilot scheme

By Jonathan Werran | 04 January 2013

Lord Heseltine, has backed a West Midlands-based pilot project to devolve Whitehall-controlled fu...

Councils' public health role needs dose of funding realism, says report

By Jonathan Werran | 04 January 2013

Councils should use their new public health role to fight obesity and help cut the weighty annual...

Pickles to issue top tips savings guide for councils

By Jonathan Werran | 17 December 2012

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has prepared a handbook outlining 50 ways councils can save mo...