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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Pressures build with rise in homelessness

By Jonathan Werran | 20 June 2012

Local authorities are facing added pressures on housing waiting lists, after government figures s...

Mastering the trick of financial cutbacks

By Jonathan Werran | 20 June 2012

This is an age when people take an increasingly consumerist approach to public services, accordin...

HMRC could recover £100m from 'off-payroll' deals

By Jonathan Werran | 20 June 2012

Tax inspectors could recover up to £100m from more than 2,400 civil servants working ‘off payroll...

Coalition needs policy review 'to avoid drift'

By Jonathan Werran | 20 June 2012

The Government must plan for mid-term renewal or risk ‘drifting in the wind’ over the next two-an...

Plans to curtail council snoops 'lack credibility'

By Jonathan Werran | 20 June 2012

Government plans to curtail local authorities’ investigatory powers lack credibility, civil liber...

Decline in business rates 'could squeeze funding'

By Jonathan Werran | 20 June 2012

Local authorities could get less funding than originally earmarked through the 2010 Spending Revi...

Experts 'sympathetic' to Dilnot dilemma

By Jonathan Werran | 20 June 2012

LGiU chief Andy Sawford comments on news the Government could delay until July response to Dilnot...

Think-tank calls for 'abolition of DCLG'

By Jonathan Werran | 20 June 2012

NLGN floats idea of dismantling the DCLG to promote further radical reform of the civil service.

Kerslake pledges smaller and more unified civil service

By Jonathan Werran | 19 June 2012

Civil service reform plans will shape a post-austerity Whitehall that is smaller and more unified...

Parsons 'broke code of conduct'

By Jonathan Werran | 19 June 2012

Leicestershire CC leader Cllr David Parsons breached authority's code of conduct numerous times o...