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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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Councils want freedom to set Right to Buy discounts

By Jonathan Werran | 09 April 2015

The next government should give councils greater flexibility to set discounts under the Right to ...

Chief exec role to go, say Lib Dems

By Jonathan Werran | 09 April 2015

Liverpool City Council’s Lib Dem group has pledged to call time on the role of chief executive sh...

Council tax top of election agenda

By Jonathan Werran | 09 April 2015

Conservative and Labour party heavyweights have brought the future of council tax charges to the ...

£2.5bn to cut bed-blocking

By Jonathan Werran | 09 April 2015

Lib Dems have called for a £2.5bn injection for social care spending over the next five years to ...

A taxing issue for parties of all stripes

By Jonathan Werran | 09 April 2015

The election campaign so far has already shown us that not all stated promises or denials should ...

Supreme Court raps Westminster out-of-area placement

By Jonathan Werran | 09 April 2015

Westminster City Council has lost a landmark legal challenge at the UK’s highest court, with impl...

Labour boasts of big devolution plans

By Jonathan Werran | 08 April 2015

Labour leaders have claimed the party’s devolution blueprint would benefit English local authorit...

Next government 'must tackle the crisis in care'

By Dan Peters | 31 March 2015

Council services face a hammering in next year’s spending review if the soaring costs of health a...

Fewer authorities freeze council tax

By Jonathan Werran | 31 March 2015

Ten fewer English councils accepted cash inducements to freeze council tax in 2015/16 than in th...

Health costs have doubled over 20 years

By Jonathan Werran | 31 March 2015

Health expenditure has more than doubled in the last two decades, figures have revealed.