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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Rochdale children's care boss departs

By Jonathan Werran | 05 October 2012

Rochdale MBC's head of children's services,will effectively leave his post today.

Inquiry exposes MPs' fears over employment scheme

By Jonathan Werran | 05 October 2012

MPs have criticised weak arrangements for detecting potential fraud and malpractice at companies ...

Warning for councils over automatic pension scheme

By Jonathan Werran | 03 October 2012

Local government employers must do more to ensure that automatic enrolment into council pension s...

Chiefs demand overhaul of business rate scheme

By Jonathan Werran | 03 October 2012

Council chiefs have demanded 'substantial improvement' to coalition proposals for localised busin...

'Revolutionary' tri-borough library scheme launched

By Jonathan Werran | 03 October 2012

Residents of west and central London gain accesss to 21 libraries and over one million books thro...

London school place 'crisis'

By Jonathan Werran | 03 October 2012

Population pressures and faulty Census data means one in ten London children will lack school pla...

Miliband to pledge apprenticeship boost

By Jonathan Werran | 02 October 2012

Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, will today set out conference speech proposals focused on the ‘...

Miliband vows support for 'forgotten 50%'

By Jonathan Werran | 02 October 2012

Ed Miliband, will today set out proposals to boost apprenticeships, pledging to focus on the 'for...

New police role for Local Partnership's chief executive

By Jonathan Werran | 01 October 2012

Local Partnerships chief executive, Helen Bailey, appointed chief of London Mayor’s police oversi...

Labour launches youth unemployment taskforce

By Jonathan Werran | 01 October 2012

Shadow work and pensions secretary, Liam Byrne, will today launch a youth unemployment taskforce ...