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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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ECONOMIC GROWTH

MPs query if Work Programme can help most vulnerable jobseekers

By Jonathan Werran | 21 May 2013

A group of MPs has questioned whether the Coalition’s flagship welfare to work scheme is helping ...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Charity boss blasts councils' £2bn B&B spending

By Jonathan Werran | 20 May 2013

Crisis chief hits out at figures showing UK's twelve biggest cities spent £1.88bn on temporary ac...

WHITEHALL

Ministers publish 'choice charter'

By Jonathan Werran | 20 May 2013

Open Public Services' update includes aspirational targets for service quality.

FINANCE

Fire authorities have scope for major efficiencies, review finds

By Jonathan Werran | 17 May 2013

Fire authorities have seen reserves double to £400m in four years and could save further £200m a ...

FINANCE

Pickles renews 'Town Hall Pravdas' attack

By Jonathan Werran | 17 May 2013

Communities secretary writes to the Newspaper Society pledging commitment to scrapping council fr...

WHITEHALL

Top MP demands independent civil service enquiry

By Jonathan Werran | 17 May 2013

Influential Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin unites with FDA trade union in demanding all-party enq...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Derbyshire chief to stand down after 16 years in post

By Jonathan Werran | 16 May 2013

Nick Hodgson, chief executive of Derbyshire CC to stand down from his £152,000 a year post after ...

FINANCE

Government 'locked into logic' of tax devolution, claims Johnson

By Jonathan Werran | 16 May 2013

London Mayor demands greater devolution of local tax revenues and calls for 'transmogrified versi...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Ofsted schools shift faces councils' flak

By Jonathan Werran | 16 May 2013

Council chiefs have branded Ofsted's new regime for inspecting local authorities' efforts to boos...

FINANCE

Government urged to consider national procurement body

By Jonathan Werran | 15 May 2013

Senior local government figures have urged ministers to rethink proposed legislation announced in...

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