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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Health and education departments go their own way with PFI schemes

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

Education ministers are planning to build new schools under PFI, while counterparts in Health fav...

Councils missing out on shared services cost savings

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

Local authorities are failing to use shared services to drive cost savings and efficiency gains, ...

Naked civil servant exposed

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

The DCLG has confirmed reports that a senior official has been suspended for using Twitter to mak...

Councils failing to plan for savings targets

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

A quarter of councils don’t expect to meet savings targets by 2014 and 40% have no approved plan ...

Osborne rejects economists call for 'plan B'

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

George Osborne has rejected the call from a group of economists and academics to adopt a ‘plan B’...

Blackpool pulls out of city status bid

By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011

Blackpool Council has withdrawn its application for city status just before last Friday’s deadline.

Birmingham strike ballot starts over pay and conditions

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2011

Nearly 10,000 Birmingham City Council staff began voting yesterday on a strike ballot over change...

Delay on social care funding reforms 'no longer an option'

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2011

The LGA has joined an alliance of charities, calling on leaders of the three main political part...

Delayed reform paper 'may never see the light of day'

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2011

Further doubts have been cast on the future of the long-delayed Public services reform White Paper.

Public sector pay deals frozen at zero

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2011

Public sector pay deals were stuck at zero in the three months to the end of April, as government...