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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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DCLG

Ministers don't trust England with fiscal freedom powers, rages Betts

By Jonathan Werran | 26 February 2015

Chair of the communities and local government Committee, Clive Betts, has railed against the Gove...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Bolton selects Paul Najsarek as next chief

By Jonathan Werran | 26 February 2015

Bolton MBC has appointed Harrow LBC director Paul Najsarek as the council’s new chief executive f...

WHITEHALL

Outgoing DCLG permanent secretary elevated to peerage

By Jonathan Werran | 26 February 2015

Outgoing permanent secretary for the Department for Communities and Local Government, Sir Bob Ker...

FINANCE

PAC blasts Whitehall's 'flawed' BCF integration plans

By Jonathan Werran | 25 February 2015

Influential MPs have castigated ‘flawed’ Government attempts to pool health and care budgets – a...

FINANCE

Councils must help curb zero-hours contracts, Unison boss urges

By Jonathan Werran | 25 February 2015

Local government bosses should lead by example and ensure no staff are engaged on controversial z...

FINANCE

Cotswold DC claims council tax cutting crown

By Jonathan Werran | 25 February 2015

Cotswold DC has boasted the country’s biggest cut in council tax charges this year, after announc...

SOCIAL CARE

Greater Manchester to get control of £6bn health budget

By Jonathan Werran | 25 February 2015

Local leaders in Greater Manchester are poised to take control of an integrated £6bn health and s...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Work programme could create up to 90,000 jobs

By Jonathan Werran | 24 February 2015

Local versions of Whitehall’s flagship Work Programme could help create up to 90,000 jobs and sav...

PLANNING

Exclude rural areas from Right to Buy says CIH

By Jonathan Werran | 24 February 2015

Rural communities should be exempted from the Government’s Right to Buy programme in order to pre...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Registration headache as IER isolates thousands of voters

By Jonathan Werran | 24 February 2015

Voting watchdogs have come under pressure this week after it emerged there were 920,000 fewer ent...

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