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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

A 'trusted national database of volunteers' can support councils during COVID-19

By Ann McGauran | 13 May 2020

RVS has provided a radical way to mobilise a volunteer army to help councils and the NHS provide ...

Transformation delivers flexibility in a crisis

By Ann McGauran | 11 May 2020

Craig Cusack and  Rob Powell talk to Ann McGauran about how Warwickshire CC’s transformation prog...

ONS - COVID-19 death rates significantly higher for social care workers

By Ann McGauran | 11 May 2020

Men and women working in social care both have significantly raised rates of death involving COVI...

Yorkshire councils could declare themselves 'bankrupt' in months

By Ann McGauran | 11 May 2020

Chief executives across Yorkshire and the Humber region have already discussed the prospect of ma...

ONS - Black people four times more likely to die from COVID-19 than whites

By Ann McGauran | 07 May 2020

Black males and females are more than four times as likely to die from a COVID-19 related death t...

Middlesbrough heads English councils at risk

By Ann McGauran | 06 May 2020

Middlesbrough is now the local authority with the greatest health risk in England from coronaviru...

'High risk' staff are being forced back, claims Unison

By Ann McGauran | 04 May 2020

Unison is demanding Milton Keynes Council steps back from what it says is a ‘rogue local plan’ to...

Heed us on contact tracing, urges public health chief

By Ann McGauran | 01 May 2020

Councils’ public health teams and their leaders need to be at the heart of discussions about any ...

Working through the pandemic to protect children and families

By Ann McGauran | 29 April 2020

A new report has identified the groups of children most likely to be at risk under lockdown. How ...

Getting back to recovery

By Ann McGauran | 28 April 2020

Stewart Murray argues councils need to be much more interventionalist if they are to help their l...