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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

ADPH chief slams failure to increase public health grant

By Ann McGauran | 02 December 2020

The Government’s failure to include a public health grant increase in the Spending Review was bra...

No local exit from the economic emergency?

By Ann McGauran | 02 December 2020

Ann McGauran reports from a Centre for Progressive Policy debate on the longer-term investment ne...

A dose of reality

By Ann McGauran | 01 December 2020

What will the main challenges be for the sector as local government gears up for a prominent role...

Survey shows public trusts councils more than Government on COVID

By Ann McGauran | 30 November 2020

The findings of a new opinion poll show the public trusts councils more than Government on the re...

Casting light on a dark problem

By Ann McGauran | 25 November 2020

An innovative integrated approach to tackling drug-related harm in Blackpool is achieving promisi...

Councils key to tackling 'anti-vax mob'

By Ann McGauran | 24 November 2020

Councils must act quickly to knock down the ‘anti-vax mob’ as the Government puts the sector at t...

Hackney shifts the dial on contact tracing

By Ann McGauran | 23 November 2020

Cllr Chris Kennedy talks to Ann McGauran about the highlights and challenges of Hackney LBC’s  lo...

NHS lays out plan for working with councils on mass vaccination

By Ann McGauran | 23 November 2020

The NHS has started to detail its mass vaccination strategy, outlining how it expects to work wit...

Local government 'must have parity' with NHS on pay

By Ann McGauran | 20 November 2020

The chairman of the LGA’s Community Wellbeing Board says the hard work of the sector during the p...

Role of councils in mass vaccination roll-out remains unclear

By Ann McGauran | 20 November 2020

The role local government will play in mass coronavirus vaccination remains unclear, as it emerge...