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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Housing instability a threat to Help to Buy, warns PAC

By Jonathan Werran | 18 June 2014

The Coalition’s flagship Help to Buy scheme has been branded a ‘casino policy’, which could be un...

LGA calls for greater local oversight of schools in wake of Trojan Horse

By Jonathan Werran | 16 June 2014

Council chiefs have today demanded the return of powers to intervene in failing schools and trigg...

Rogers urges ministers to 'think of the pupils'

By Jonathan Werran | 12 June 2014

Chief executive of Birmingham City Council urges politicians and officials to remember ‘the moral...

'Build on strengths' to drive local economies

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

Struggling areas should ‘get off their butts’ and understand how they could re engineer their loc...

Inside View by Jonathan Werran

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

Trojan Horse more Whitehall infighting farce than Greek Tragedy, writes Jonathan Werran.

Public sector job cuts hit England and NE hardest

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

England has experienced the greatest reduction in public sector jobs over the past four years, co...

Highways Agency changes may open way for road tolls

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

The Infrastructure Bill could pave the way to the wholescale privatisation of the Highways Agency...

Labour claims Tories are 'abusing impartiality'

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

Government communications supremo Alex Aiken under fire from Labour shadow ministers for alleged...

LGA demands devolution of English youth services

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

Hundreds of thousands of young people could remain mired in inactivity without a drastic change i...

Picking up the pieces

By Jonathan Werran | 10 June 2014

The District Councils’ Network this week issues its manifesto, setting out ways districts could h...