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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Councils set for big win in high-stakes battle against bookies

By Jonathan Werran | 07 April 2014

Council chiefs appear poised to win their battle against the clustering of high stakes gaming mac...

Northern Ireland council line up complete

By Jonathan Werran | 03 April 2014

Ministers in Northern Ireland have come under fire for adding ‘needless cost and delay’ in the re...

Warwickshire reeling after chief's Coventry comments

By Jonathan Werran | 03 April 2014

Council leaders in Coventry and Warwickshire are trying to heal a rift after comments made by Jim...

Empire of the Census

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

Last week chief statistician Sir Andrew Dilnot recommended major changes to how population data i...

Vulnerable residents hit by 'consequences' of housing reforms

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

Coalition welfare reforms aimed at reducing housing costs are causing severe and unintended finan...

£410m funding boost for transformation

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

Ministers have confirmed a new £410m funding package to boost partnership working initiatives all...

Government tax 'sweetener' ensures 60% council tax freeze

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

The number of councils accepting the Government cash grant to freeze council tax in 2014/15 has r...

Inside View: Data explosion has driven down trust

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

The explosion of data released by the accountability industry has only driven public trust in pub...

Atos quits £500m government disability test contract

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

Outsourcing company Atos has pulled out of a deal to assess whether sick and disabled people are ...

Whitehall chiefs blamed for delays to spending cuts

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

A failure of political leadership at the top of the civil service could damage plans to speed up ...