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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

LGA calls for greater local oversight of schools in wake of Trojan Horse

By Jonathan Werran | 16 June 2014

Council chiefs have today demanded the return of powers to intervene in failing schools and trigg...

Rogers urges ministers to 'think of the pupils'

By Jonathan Werran | 12 June 2014

Chief executive of Birmingham City Council urges politicians and officials to remember ‘the moral...

'Build on strengths' to drive local economies

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

Struggling areas should ‘get off their butts’ and understand how they could re engineer their loc...

Inside View by Jonathan Werran

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

Trojan Horse more Whitehall infighting farce than Greek Tragedy, writes Jonathan Werran.

Public sector job cuts hit England and NE hardest

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

England has experienced the greatest reduction in public sector jobs over the past four years, co...

Highways Agency changes may open way for road tolls

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

The Infrastructure Bill could pave the way to the wholescale privatisation of the Highways Agency...

Labour claims Tories are 'abusing impartiality'

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

Government communications supremo Alex Aiken under fire from Labour shadow ministers for alleged...

LGA demands devolution of English youth services

By Jonathan Werran | 11 June 2014

Hundreds of thousands of young people could remain mired in inactivity without a drastic change i...

Picking up the pieces

By Jonathan Werran | 10 June 2014

The District Councils’ Network this week issues its manifesto, setting out ways districts could h...

Schools funding agency must 'get to grips, with academy cash

By Jonathan Werran | 10 June 2014

EFA must ‘get to grips’ with oversight of how academies spend cash and establish a ‘fit and prope...