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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

FINANCE

'Public health expenditure must remain ring-fenced'

By Jonathan Werran | 16 December 2014

Local authority public health expenditure should be ring-fenced for the foreseeable future, the c...

HOUSING

'Don't axe the NHB' councils tell Labour

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

District chiefs have hit out at Labour Party proposals to axe the New Homes Bonus (NHB), claiming...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Force councils to adopt local plans, CLG committee demands

By Jonathan Werran | 16 December 2014

Government planning reforms should be amended to tackle anxieties about inappropriate and unsusta...

PAY

Pickles orders further diktats on rewarding chief officers

By Jonathan Werran | 15 December 2014

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has vowed to end the chief executive salary ‘gravy train’ by o...

FINANCE

Labour proposes £500m CLG budget cutbacks

By Jonathan Werran | 11 December 2014

Labour Party shadow ministers today announced 'zero based review' plans drive further £500m CLG c...

FINANCE

NALC vows to improve parishes' finance training

By Jonathan Werran | 11 December 2014

The chair of the National Association of Local Councils (NALC) has pledged to improve training an...

WHITEHALL

Chiefs critical of coalition's city bias

By Jonathan Werran | 10 December 2014

County chiefs have voiced their criticism of what they claim is the coalition’s bias in favour of...

ELECTIONS

Reforms 'harming' voter numbers

By Jonathan Werran | 10 December 2014

The numbers of students and young people registered to vote could decrease significantly because ...

FINANCE

Chiefs attack tax referendums

By Jonathan Werran | 10 December 2014

Council chiefs have attacked the coalition’s plans to set thresholds for council tax referendums ...

PLANNING

Ten Welsh councils in combined authority push

By Jonathan Werran | 09 December 2014

Proposals issued to establish a combined authority for the South East Wales region able to take c...

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