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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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WHITEHALL

The relationship between public services and public finances

By Jonathan Werran | 04 April 2012

The British public want a high-quality Scandinavian style services delivered from low US levels o...

HEALTH

Councils mustn't lose out from adoption overhaul, Narey urges

By Jonathan Werran | 30 March 2012

Martin Narey has urged ministers to ensure local authorities don't suffer financial penalties for...

WHITEHALL

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...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

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...

HEALTH

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...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

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...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

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...

FINANCE

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

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...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

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...

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