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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

DCLG

Make community takeovers easier, MPs urge

By Jonathan Werran | 03 February 2015

Residents should have greater opportunities to save local pubs and other vital community assets, ...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Hartlepool chief Dave Stubbs to retire after 44-year career

By Jonathan Werran | 02 February 2015

Hartlepool BC chief executive Dave Stubbs will retire this May, so ending a 44-year local governm...

FINANCE

Parishes could pioneer e-voting

By Jonathan Werran | 02 February 2015

Parish council referendums should be used to pioneer the use of electronic voting in UK elections...

DEVOLUTION

Welsh councils 'saddened' as voluntary merger plans squashed

By Jonathan Werran | 30 January 2015

Welsh council leaders have voiced their disappointment at the rejection by ministers of their pla...

WHITEHALL

Watchdog slams DfE's light-touch for allowing schools failure to go undetected

By Jonathan Werran | 30 January 2015

Some schools are falling through the gaps and failing undetected because of confusion arising fro...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Caerphilly approves 'unlawful' buy-out payments

By Jonathan Werran | 29 January 2015

Caerphilly County councillors have voted to sanction more than £220,000 in payouts to senior mana...

WHITEHALL

Voter time bomb warning

By Jonathan Werran | 29 January 2015

The leader of the Local Government Association’s (LGA) Labour Group has urged Parliament to inter...

ELECTIONS

Asian communities at risk of 'unscrupulous' campaigners, voting watchdog warns

By Jonathan Werran | 28 January 2015

Voters in some British Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities remain vulnerable to political peer ...

FINANCE

MPs warn that councils may not meet legal duties

By Jonathan Werran | 27 January 2015

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) would not be able to guarantee every l...

FINANCE

Barnett's importance to grow 'with extra features on top'

By Jonathan Werran | 27 January 2015

An economist from a leading public finance think-tank has refuted ministerial claims that the con...

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