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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Pickles blasts council tax 'democracy dodgers'

By Jonathan Werran | 28 January 2013

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has today hit out at local authority 'democracy dodgers' seeki...

Ministers launch council procurement competition

By Jonathan Werran | 28 January 2013

Ministers launch a competition to identify which councils are using their procurement processes t...

LGA maps £263m shared service savings

By Jonathan Werran | 25 January 2013

Councils have made combined £263m savings from shared service initiatives, the Local Government A...

Ministers issue councils 'last chance' warning over adoption

By Jonathan Werran | 24 January 2013

Ministers to strip councils of their responsibility for finding adoptive parents if national back...

MPs 'fail to understand' sector-led improvement

By Jonathan Werran | 24 January 2013

Council chiefs claim a group of top MPs have 'fundamentally misunderstood' the concept of a secto...

Housing crisis 'a major city issue'

By Jonathan Werran | 23 January 2013

The housing crisis is one of the most pressing challenges facing economic growth, according to a ...

Mayor will block vote to stop fire station closures

By Jonathan Werran | 23 January 2013

London mayor Boris Johnson pledges to use powers to override vote rejecting plans to close London...

Pickles promises momentum on troubled families

By Jonathan Werran | 23 January 2013

Ministers vow to increase momentum behind the £448m three-year troubled families programme to boo...

Call to end private sector 'ambiguity' in standards

By Jonathan Werran | 22 January 2013

A government watchdog has called for people in the private sector delivering public services to b...

Whitehall's regulatory muddle

By Jonathan Werran | 22 January 2013

Civil service reform programme needs to get a grip on how to regulate commissioned services, argu...