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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Authorities' pilots offer guidance on how to apply UC

By Jonathan Werran | 02 April 2014

Welfare ministers have launched a handbook providing advice to local authorities on implementing ...

Tower Hamlets mayor seeks to rebut Panorama accusations

By Jonathan Werran | 01 April 2014

Lutfur Rahman, the under fire mayor of Tower Hamlets LBC refutes a series of allegations broadca...

Local control of Whitehall spend is next step to fiscal freedom, cities minister tells MPs

By Jonathan Werran | 01 April 2014

Local control over billion pounds worth of Whitehall budgets should form the next step to the age...

675,000 households face council tax hikes as CTB transition money ends

By Jonathan Werran | 31 March 2014

Nearly 700,000 working-age households face the prospect of average £120 increases in council tax ...

Wylie Belfast appointment ends Northern Ireland chief executive search

By Jonathan Werran | 31 March 2014

Suzanne Wylie has been appointed Belfast City Council's first-ever female chief executive, the cu...

Ministers stress BCF is a long-term deal

By Jonathan Werran | 28 March 2014

Ministers have written to council chiefs pledging pooled Better Care Fund budgets will last beyon...

'Super councils' seek powers

By Jonathan Werran | 27 March 2014

The Government should equip the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the four emerging ‘supe...

Gloucester chief Wain to stand down

By Jonathan Werran | 26 March 2014

Gloucester City Council chief executive Julian Wain has announced his intention to stand down at ...

Whitehall Inside View - GOD does wellbeing

By Jonathan Werran | 26 March 2014

Lord O'Donnell's intervention is timely - there's more to life than money as far as voters are co...

Wellbeing is 'true sign of a country's progress'

By Jonathan Werran | 26 March 2014

Government policy-making should be more focused on the social and personal wellbeing of citizens,...