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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Deprived councils took biggest spending hit, JRF report shows

By Jonathan Werran | 10 March 2015

Local government budget cuts - which saw the sector’s spending power diminished by more than a qu...

No way out?

By Jonathan Werran | 10 March 2015

With the pre-election Budget looming, public finance economists last week detailed the impact of ...

Pickles hails troubled families 'triumph'

By Jonathan Werran | 10 March 2015

Nearly nine-out-of ten of the 117,910 chaotic households in England targeted for intervention und...

Children's complaints system 'creaking' under pressure, ombudsman reports

By Jonathan Werran | 10 March 2015

A ‘creaking’ system for redressing complaints over children’s services could be overhauled to foc...

Sharkey jumps to Milton Keynes

By Jonathan Werran | 09 March 2015

Worcester City Council managing director Duncan Sharkey is to leave his post to become corporate ...

Soulsby wields axe after Leicester children's services 'botch up'

By Jonathan Werran | 09 March 2015

Leicester mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has taken over control of children’s and school’s services in t...

Balls: central government funding to councils would end under Osborne plans

By Jonathan Werran | 09 March 2015

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls today claimed local government service budgets ‘would barely exist’ an...

PAC calls for fairness and certainty over public health funding

By Jonathan Werran | 06 March 2015

Public health inequalities could widen if the funding ring-fence is not maintained and without a ...

London and the North bore brunt of budget cuts, IFS study shows

By Jonathan Werran | 05 March 2015

London boroughs and councils in the North East and North West experienced the largest per-head sp...

Pickles welcomes Cipfa's council tax survey

By Jonathan Werran | 05 March 2015

Average council tax bills across England are set to increase by a mere 1% in 2015, public finance...