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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

WHITEHALL

Big Society has failed, experts report

By Jonathan Werran | 20 January 2015

The Coalition’s Big Society project has failed on its own terms amid a continued reduction in civ...

FINANCE

Cities central

By Jonathan Werran | 19 January 2015

Research issued this week by the Centre for Cities think- tank shows the UK remains split into tw...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

North-south growth divide becoming entrenched, think-tank warns

By Jonathan Werran | 19 January 2015

The economic gap between the south of England and the rest of the country has widened in the last...

COUNCILLORS

Tower Hamlets election evidence emerges

By Jonathan Werran | 15 January 2015

Some 30 Tower Hamlets LBC staff were instructed to secure 100 votes each for Mayor Lutfur Rahman ...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Palin appointed next St Helens chief

By Jonathan Werran | 15 January 2015

St Helens MBC has appointed Mike Palin as chief executive, making the 35-year old one of the youn...

FINANCE

Parishes demand funding fairness from ministers

By Jonathan Werran | 14 January 2015

Parish and town council leaders have met government ministers to press their claim for a fairer f...

WHITEHALL

£6.8m aid to round up missing voters

By Jonathan Werran | 13 January 2015

Ministers have given local authorities the lion’s share of a further £10m funding to boost the nu...

WHITEHALL

Improve council fraud incentives, MPs tell DWP

By Jonathan Werran | 13 January 2015

Commons Public Accounts Committee has urged the Department for Work and Pensions to devise strong...

FINANCE

Derby City Council chief executive stands down

By Jonathan Werran | 12 January 2015

Derby City Council chief executive Adam Wilkinson has stood down from his £160,000 a year role, b...

FINANCE

Counties defend planned council tax hike

By Jonathan Werran | 12 January 2015

County council chiefs have defended proposals to increase council tax charges - following a weeke...

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