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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Social workers to benefit from updated code of employers' standards

By Jonathan Werran | 19 May 2014

Council bosses, trade unions and health and social care experts have today launched a revised set...

Inside View: The stark light of hindsight

By Jonathan Werran | 16 May 2014

Sound advice grates on the ear, the saying goes.

Fears in run-up to election

By Jonathan Werran | 16 May 2014

Whitehall mandarins fear the civil service’s political impartiality could be under threat, an inf...

More free schools could see costs spiral out of control

By Jonathan Werran | 16 May 2014

The coalition’s drive to boost the number of free schools could send capital expenditure costs sp...

Pensions row escalates

By Jonathan Werran | 15 May 2014

Excluding councillors from access to the LGPS will thwart ministerial intentions, council chiefs ...

Worcestershire districts mull plan for shared chief executive

By Jonathan Werran | 15 May 2014

Council leaders from Wychavon DC and Malvern Hills DC are in exploratory discussions over whether...

MPs fear housing fraud could thwart Universal Credit savings

By Jonathan Werran | 15 May 2014

House of Commons committee reports welfare savings promised under Universal Credit could be under...

No capital gain from London

By Jonathan Werran | 13 May 2014

Less than one in four (24%) people living outside London feel their local area derives any econom...

Ministers restate case for BCF objectives

By Jonathan Werran | 12 May 2014

Ministers insist attempts to deliver the ambitions of the BCF are a 'necessity’ if England is to ...

Healey urges radical LEPs overhaul to drive local growth

By Jonathan Werran | 09 May 2014

Local Enterprise Partnerships must be strengthened, streamlined and given access to additional po...