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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Government reform proposals dismissed as needless 'red-tape'

By Jonathan Werran | 29 March 2012

Government proposals to reform public services have been criticised as 'unworkable' and 'addition...

Mayoral candidates step up

By Jonathan Werran | 29 March 2012

Candidates eligible to stand in the London Mayoral election and contest seats on the London Assem...

Doncaster pledges no repeat of child safeguarding failures

By Jonathan Werran | 29 March 2012

Doncaster MBC will refer one member of staff to the GSCC and launch disciplinary investigations a...

Women make up 68% of council redundancies, union figures show

By Jonathan Werran | 28 March 2012

Figures analysed by the GMB indicate female staff accounted for nearly seven out of ten town hall...

Councils agree payment-by-results scheme for troubled families

By Jonathan Werran | 28 March 2012

Ten local authority areas with the largest number of troubled families have signed-up to the Gove...

Councils seek more talks over borrowing controls

By Jonathan Werran | 28 March 2012

Council leaders have called for urgent talks with ministers to discuss future local authority bor...

Whitehall's soap bubble won't wash

By Jonathan Werran | 28 March 2012

Lacking robust political advice, ministers can be left at the mercy of Whitehall inertia and even...

Call for urgent talks over donor tax plan

By Jonathan Werran | 28 March 2012

Leading charity bosses have written to George Osborne, seeking talks on Budget proposals to cap t...

A new high-flyer for Westminster

By Jonathan Werran | 28 March 2012

Philippa Roe is the latest leader of high-profile Westminster City Council.Jonathan Werran met he...

Public and private pay gap widens, official figures show

By Jonathan Werran | 27 March 2012

An ONS study has claimed the outsourcing of low-skilled jobs from the public to the private secto...