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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Budget poised to hand low earners tax break

By Jonathan Werran | 21 March 2012

Low-paid council staff and town hall top earners look set to benefit from measures due to be anno...

PAC abolishment rumour is 'nonsense', says union

By Jonathan Werran | 21 March 2012

A senior civil servants' trade union has dismissed as 'nonsense' claims that mandarins are secret...

Court ruling backs ministers' pensions plan

By Jonathan Werran | 20 March 2012

Public sector trade unions have reacted with dismay to the Court of Appeal's rejection of their l...

LGA calls for £1bn 'Neet' fund

By Jonathan Werran | 19 March 2012

Youth unemployment rates could be tackled by pooling £1bn of Government funding for training sche...

Electoral Commission criticises PCC plan

By Jonathan Werran | 16 March 2012

Electoral Commission warns the Government on plans to block publicly-funded mailouts by PCCs.

Councils' £10bn plan

By Dominic Browne | 15 March 2012

Duncan Smith urges town halls and their partners to invest heavily in early-intervention programmes.

Simplify data sharing to beat crime says minister

By Jonathan Werran | 14 March 2012

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has warned data sharing across the public sector needs to b...

The problems with shared services

By Jonathan Werran | 14 March 2012

By stipulating, 'I want it that way',in exacting detail on many systems of shared services, const...

The 'blame game' in the absence of economic recovery

By Jonathan Werran | 13 March 2012

Jonathan Werran looks at how a blame game of the absence of economic recovery has begun ahead of ...

LGA publishes Budget 'wish list'

By Jonathan Werran | 12 March 2012

Council chiefs ask Chancellor to announce Budget measures removing barriers to infrastructure inv...