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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

HEALTH

NHS to fund six weeks of care to support people at home

By Ann McGauran | 22 July 2020

The NHS is to use part of its £3bn winter pressures cash to support people at home for a six-week...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Closing the gap

By Ann McGauran | 21 July 2020

Jenny Coles, president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services, gives Ann McGauran...

HEALTH

Leicester should be 'klaxon warning' to councils

By Ann McGauran | 21 July 2020

The example of Leicester should be a ‘klaxon warning’ to councils that government ‘will not hesit...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Blackburn with Darwen could lockdown as 'a very last resort'

By Ann McGauran | 21 July 2020

Blackburn with Darwen has replaced Leicester as England’s new coronavirus hotspot and could now f...

HEALTH

It takes two

By Ann McGauran | 20 July 2020

A £3bn winter funding boost for the NHS has highlighted a lack of focus on an adult social care s...

COVID

Decision to cut mourners led to 'horrendous' abuse of council workers

By Ann McGauran | 15 July 2020

A decision by Europe’s largest local authority to reduce the numbers of mourners at funerals duri...

HEALTH

Blackburn with Darwen announces new local measures to control virus

By Ann McGauran | 15 July 2020

Blackburn with Darwen Council has introduced five new local measures to control the spread of cor...

FINANCE

Build a country that works for all children - ADCS

By Ann McGauran | 14 July 2020

Children and young people’s experience of COVID-19 should be front and centre of national recover...

SKILLS

Chancellor confirms £2bn jobs scheme for young people

By Ann McGauran | 08 July 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £2bn ‘kickstart scheme’ for jobs to prevent an entire gene...

SCRUTINY

Don't kick more fiscal devo for London into the long grass, says Assembly chair

By Ann McGauran | 07 July 2020

The post COVID world shows that further fiscal devolution for the capital is vital and ‘mustn’t b...

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