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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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FINANCE

Labour MPs lukewarm on mansion tax, poll finds

By Jonathan Werran | 09 January 2015

The majority of MPs believe the creation of higher rate council tax bands is a better way to refo...

PARISH COUNCILS

Ministers publish parish council proposals

By Jonathan Werran | 08 January 2015

Ministers have today published three key measures aimed at making it easier for communities to se...

FINANCE

LGA: NHS cash pledges are 'false economy'

By Jonathan Werran | 08 January 2015

Pledges by political parties to protect and enhance NHS spending at the expense of social care bu...

SOCIAL CARE

New CQC regime rates 70% care services 'good'

By Jonathan Werran | 07 January 2015

Care watchdogs have today published the first set of ratings of adult social care services under ...

FINANCE

PAC Hodge wants LGA help with off-payroll crackdown

By Jonathan Werran | 07 January 2015

A public spending watchdog has urged the Local Government Association (LGA) to continue working w...

INNOVATION

Merger programme 'at risk of engulfing' pioneering councils

By Jonathan Werran | 06 January 2015

Innovative Welsh councils risk being subsumed by the planned voluntary merger programme, a Welsh ...

FINANCE

LGA: council tax support puts authorities in 'impossible position'

By Jonathan Werran | 06 January 2015

Last year’s fall in council tax collection rates was greater in areas which set higher minimum pa...

PLANNING

Thanet chief executive resigns

By Jonathan Werran | 05 January 2015

Thanet DC chief executive Dr Sue McGonigal has resigned from her post following a six-month leave...

FINANCE

'Public health expenditure must remain ring-fenced'

By Jonathan Werran | 16 December 2014

Local authority public health expenditure should be ring-fenced for the foreseeable future, the c...

HOUSING

'Don't axe the NHB' councils tell Labour

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

District chiefs have hit out at Labour Party proposals to axe the New Homes Bonus (NHB), claiming...

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