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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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FINANCE

Government tax 'sweetener' ensures 60% council tax freeze

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

The number of councils accepting the Government cash grant to freeze council tax in 2014/15 has r...

Inside View: Data explosion has driven down trust

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

The explosion of data released by the accountability industry has only driven public trust in pub...

FINANCE

Atos quits £500m government disability test contract

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

Outsourcing company Atos has pulled out of a deal to assess whether sick and disabled people are ...

FINANCE

Whitehall chiefs blamed for delays to spending cuts

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

A failure of political leadership at the top of the civil service could damage plans to speed up ...

FINANCE

Authorities' pilots offer guidance on how to apply UC

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

Welfare ministers have launched a handbook providing advice to local authorities on implementing ...

FINANCE

Tower Hamlets mayor seeks to rebut Panorama accusations

By Jonathan Werran | 01 April 2014

Lutfur Rahman, the under fire mayor of Tower Hamlets LBC refutes a series of allegations broadca...

FINANCE

Local control of Whitehall spend is next step to fiscal freedom, cities minister tells MPs

By Jonathan Werran | 01 April 2014

Local control over billion pounds worth of Whitehall budgets should form the next step to the age...

FINANCE

675,000 households face council tax hikes as CTB transition money ends

By Jonathan Werran | 31 March 2014

Nearly 700,000 working-age households face the prospect of average £120 increases in council tax ...

WORKFORCE

Wylie Belfast appointment ends Northern Ireland chief executive search

By Jonathan Werran | 31 March 2014

Suzanne Wylie has been appointed Belfast City Council's first-ever female chief executive, the cu...

HEALTH

Ministers stress BCF is a long-term deal

By Jonathan Werran | 28 March 2014

Ministers have written to council chiefs pledging pooled Better Care Fund budgets will last beyon...

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