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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

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...

Unions vote 'yes' to LGPS deal

By Jonathan Werran | 28 August 2012

Unison members vote overwhelmingly in favour of accepting proposed changes to the Local Governmen...

Mouchel restructure secures jobs and subsidiaries, claims chief

By Jonathan Werran | 28 August 2012

Administrators for Mouchel have said all of the troubled contractor's subsidiaries will continue ...

SOLACE chief Rossiter steps down

By Jonathan Werran | 24 August 2012

Kathryn Rossiter is stepping down as managing director of council chiefs’ body SOLACE after eight...