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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Paler, maler, impermanent secretaries?

By Jonathan Werran | 05 September 2012

Jonathan Werran says the turnover of civil service permanent secretaries has been six times great...

Key think-tank backs regional pay

By Jonathan Werran | 04 September 2012

Policy Exchange has claimed scrapping national pay and pension deals for public sector workers co...

Nottingham signs up to transparency

By Jonathan Werran | 03 September 2012

Nottingham City Council chiefs relent over the authority's previous refusal to comply with finan...

Councils must share office space with wider public sector, MPs urge

By Jonathan Werran | 31 August 2012

Influential Commons Committee urges Local authorities to work with central government departments...

Figures show fall in workless households

By Jonathan Werran | 30 August 2012

Official figures reveal nearly one fifth of UK households are workless.

Pickles urges town hall claw back of CTB fraud

By Jonathan Werran | 30 August 2012

Eric Pickles has urged authorities to help tackle benefit fraud and error costing £200m annually.

Bournemouth faces demands to 'insource' Mouchel staff

By Jonathan Werran | 30 August 2012

Bournemouth Council is facing calls to bring back its workforce in-house, after Mouchel went into...

LGPS: statutory consultation to implement reforms imminent

By Jonathan Werran | 30 August 2012

Ministers will launch a statutory consultation on the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

Soulsby: no action over Leicester car parking fines row

By Jonathan Werran | 30 August 2012

Leicester City Mayor vows no action against senior council official involved in car park fines' w...

Pickles' choice for final Commission chair faces MPs' grilling

By Jonathan Werran | 28 August 2012

Former BDO International boss, Jeremy Newman, chosen by Eric Pickles,to become the last chairman...