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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: Spending chief highlights 'amazing financial pressure' on councils

By Ann McGauran | 24 September 2020

The head of the National Audit Office (NAO) today highlighted the ‘amazing financial pressure’ co...

Ex Conservative local government minister attacks centre on COVID policy

By Ann McGauran | 23 September 2020

A former Conservative local government minister has attacked the Government’s lack of consultatio...

Staring into the jobs abyss

By Ann McGauran | 22 September 2020

With the furlough scheme due to finish at the end of next month, can local government support COV...

'Let's place our trust in the local', urges Archbishop of Canterbury

By Ann McGauran | 16 September 2020

The Archbishop of Canterbury has today urged the Government to follow the clergy’s historic commi...

Occupancy rates unsustainable in 26 Bradford care homes, says care chief

By Ann McGauran | 16 September 2020

Occupancy rates are unsustainable in 26 care homes in Bradford, with people  ‘genuinely worried’ ...

Time 'lost' when centre and local at odds over COVID

By Ann McGauran | 15 September 2020

Effective global responses to COVID-19 depend on local leadership as the 'critical convenor' and ...

Redundancy notifications at more than double levels of last recession

By Ann McGauran | 15 September 2020

Redundancy notifications are running at more than double the levels seen in the 2008/09 recession...

New gatherings limit welcomed by director

By Ann McGauran | 09 September 2020

The Government’s decision to tighten English laws to ban nearly all gatherings of more than six p...

DCN: Bigger local government is 'not better or cheaper'

By Ann McGauran | 01 September 2020

Proposals for county unitary councils would be 122 times larger than the average council in Germa...

Regulators refusing to make care home deaths public

By Ann McGauran | 28 August 2020

Regulators are keeping the COVID-19 death tolls at individual care homes secret in part to protec...