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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

WHITEHALL

DCLG sitting idly on housing cash hoard, Betts laments

By Jonathan Werran | 30 March 2015

Chair of the communities and local government select committee Clive Betts has accused ministers ...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Rossendale searches for Sugarman

By Jonathan Werran | 25 March 2015

Rosssendale BC has appointed Stuart Sugarman as its new chief executive - as long-standing Pendle...

LEGAL

Plans to simplify senior staff dismissals unveiled

By Jonathan Werran | 24 March 2015

Ministers will this week set out measures which would make it easier to dismiss council chief exe...

HEALTH

Chiefs doubt Whitehall plans for power shifts

By Jonathan Werran | 24 March 2015

Most council chiefs doubt the next Government will deliver a decentralisation power shift, new re...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Demand management up fourfold since 2011

By Jonathan Werran | 24 March 2015

The number of council chiefs making demand-focused service transformation a ‘significant’ element...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Leadership 'knew all about' botched structural overhaul

By Jonathan Werran | 24 March 2015

Leicester City Council's former interim children's services director has hit back at claims made ...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Oxfordshire in chief executive U-turn vote

By Jonathan Werran | 24 March 2015

Oxfordshire CC members have voted unanimously to reverse plans to abolish the role of chief execu...

INNOVATION

NLGN report urges greater council and housing association partnerships

By Jonathan Werran | 24 March 2015

Councils and housing associations should work together to secure better health and wellbeing outc...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

LGA: care costs to swallow up council tax revenues

By Jonathan Werran | 24 March 2015

Town hall chiefs have claimed that more than half of the average council tax bill will go toward ...

INFRASTRUCTURE

Parties outline housing policy commitments

By Jonathan Werran | 23 March 2015

Housing policy has taken centre stage as a key manifesto issue for the main political parties, ah...

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