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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Gove denies Ofsted rift

By Jonathan Werran | 27 January 2014

Education secretary forced to deny his officials are involved in a smear campaign against Ofsted ...

LGA confirms governance changes

By Jonathan Werran | 24 January 2014

Number of LGA boards trimmed from 10 to 9 and new city and city region boards set up in £144,000 ...

FOI survey reveals capital's £500m emergency housing bill

By Jonathan Werran | 24 January 2014

London boroughs have spent more than half a billion pounds on emergency housing since 2010, a ser...

Merger mania

By Jamie Hailstone | 23 January 2014

Plans to halve the number of Welsh councils could pave the way for greater devolution for English...

IFS: Council tax support cuts harm poorer workers

By Jonathan Werran | 23 January 2014

Some 80% of English local authorities passed on increased council tax charges to working-age hous...

PbR schemes hinder the most vulnerable

By Jonathan Werran | 23 January 2014

Government fixation with payment-by-results (PbR) schemes is discriminating against social sector...

LGA and CfPS unveil new 'thinking toolkit'

By Jonathan Werran | 23 January 2014

LGA and the Centre for Public Scrutiny (CfPS) launch a toolkit containing practical guidance on r...

Inside View: Gang of Four will be hard to break

By Jonathan Werran | 22 January 2014

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude last week announced a rare coalition away-victory in Europe.

Housing benefit overpaid by more than £1bn

By Jonathan Werran | 22 January 2014

More than £1bn was overpaid in housing benefit (HB) last year, official figures issued by the Gov...

Hodge: Academies' value for money not looked at until the s*** hits the fan

By Jonathan Werran | 22 January 2014

Spending watchdogs have refused to give the Department for Education’s (DfE) financial accounts a...