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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Osborne plans 'metro mayor' for Greater Manchester

By Jonathan Werran | 31 October 2014

Chancellor George Osborne is set to foist a ‘metro mayor’ on Greater Manchester in return for gre...

Alastair Gibbons appointed Birmingham DCS

By Jonathan Werran | 29 October 2014

Birmingham City Council has appointed Alastair Gibbons as the new executive director of the autho...

Troubleshooters' scheme helps 60% of 'chaotic' households

By Jonathan Werran | 28 October 2014

Nearly 60% of the chaotic households earmarked for help under the coalition’s flagship troubled f...

Situations vacant

By Jonathan Werran | 28 October 2014

With an impeccable sense of timing for the half-term holidays, spending watchdogs the National Au...

Hammersmith and Fulham calls time on bi-borough chief role

By Jonathan Werran | 28 October 2014

Hammersmith and Fulham LBC has pulled out of shared chief executive arrangements with West London...

Ministers to outline 'boomerang boss' payout curbs

By Jonathan Werran | 28 October 2014

Ministers will today announce further details of laws aimed at preventing senior council managers...

Derby day winners

By Jonathan Werran | 27 October 2014

Derby City Council scooped the awards for senior management team of the year and workforce transf...

NALC 'gob smacked' by £9m council tax support cash grab

By Jonathan Werran | 27 October 2014

The representative body for parish and town councils will this week use its annual general meetin...

LGA to lead calls for devolution discussion

By Jonathan Werran | 21 October 2014

Council chiefs will lobby Treasury ministers in the coming weeks to begin immediate talks on fina...

Auditors to probe Pembrokeshire chief's payoff

By Jonathan Werran | 21 October 2014

Welsh spending watchdogs are poised to scrutinise the severance deal of Pembrokeshire County Coun...