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Ann McGauran

Ann McGauran

Journalist and content editor with 20+ years specialising in public policy. Still learning.

Articles by Ann McGauran

Future Forum North: Bid funds for levelling up 'isn't working' for coastal communities

By Ann McGauran | 25 March 2022

The existing approach of bid funding for levelling up isn’t working for coastal communities, a co...

Future Forum North: local government still lacks a plan for delivering sustainability

By Ann McGauran | 25 March 2022

Local government still lacks both a plan for delivering sustainability and a way of measuring the...

Future Forum North: Link is 'very likely' between leaders' attributes and levelling up success

By Ann McGauran | 24 March 2022

A link is ‘very likely’ between key behavioural attributes of local government leaders and their ...

Future Forum North: Investment in skills 'comes without guarantees'

By Ann McGauran | 24 March 2022

Investment in improving skills and qualifications ‘comes without guarantees’ that workers will st...

Future Forum North: Government must take  'a much more strategic view' on funding

By Ann McGauran | 24 March 2022

Central government needs to adopt a ‘much more strategic’ approach to funding local areas that pl...

The chance to reclaim communities starts here

By Ann McGauran | 22 March 2022

Will Tanner is a key speaker at this month’s New Local Stronger Things event. He talks to Ann McG...

Family matters

By Ann McGauran | 15 March 2022

With the findings of the independent review of children’s social care expected soon, Ann McGauran...

Government is failing to set out councils' role in delivering net zero, say MPs

By Ann McGauran | 02 March 2022

MPs have hit out at the Government’s ‘apparent lack of urgency’ in clarifying how it will work wi...

Building a new North

By Ann McGauran | 16 February 2022

What lies ahead for communities across the North after the publication of the Levelling Up White ...

The trouble with money

By Ann McGauran | 15 February 2022

Despite a ‘massive degree of uncertainty’ surrounding what the Government is calling a ‘council t...