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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

LGA decries in-year reductions

By Jonathan Werran | 05 June 2015

Council chiefs have decried chancellor George Osborne’s pre-emptive £200m cut to public health bu...

Ministers must rethink Right to Buy plans

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2015

Former Department for Communities and Local Government permanent secretary, Lord Kerslake, this w...

Praise for powers of recall

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2015

Pioneering plans to introduce powers of recall for councillors whose standards of behaviour fall ...

Single ombudsman could cover housing and education

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2015

Plans to modernise rights of redress for citizens through the establishment of a single Ombudsman...

All 'inadequate' schools to face academy conversion, Morgan announces

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2015

Councils will be forced to convert an estimated 1,000 schools rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted into a...

Serving notice

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2015

Jonathan Werran delves through the detail of the first Queen’s Speech from a Conservative majorit...

Let councils rehouse the nation, new report urges

By Jonathan Werran | 02 June 2015

Councils should be given a stronger role as lead developers for the construction of new housing s...

Osborne to offer Midlands Powerhouse opportunity

By Jonathan Werran | 01 June 2015

Chancellor George Osborne will today use a visit to the West Midlands to advance the Government’s...

Lloyd appointed interim Greater Manchester mayor

By Jonathan Werran | 29 May 2015

Former chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Tony Lloyd, has beaten Wigan MBC leader Lord Pete...

Barnardo's demands better sex education to tackle CSE blight

By Jonathan Werran | 29 May 2015

Leading children’s charity Barnardo’s has called on the Government to ensure all pupils in Englan...