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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

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...

Pandemic will cost Greater Manchester's councils £541m, says leader

By Ann McGauran | 27 April 2020

The coronavirus emergency will cost councils in Greater Manchester £541m in lost income and extra...

Pandemic is making 'inadequate funding baseline' worse, says new ADCS president

By Ann McGauran | 23 April 2020

The incoming president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) says she wan...