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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Inside View: The problems with public sector pay

By Jonathan Werran | 17 December 2013

This year has been a rotten one for Whitehall’s reputation as a superbly tuned machine.

Watchdog: Government 'failed to learn lessons' of PCC election

By Jonathan Werran | 17 December 2013

Voting watchdogs have hit out at the Home Office over its failure to heed the lessons from last N...

MPs call for civil service reforms

By Jonathan Werran | 17 December 2013

A group of MPs has backed the establishment of a Parliamentary commission on the civil service.

Hanningfield in House of Lords expenses spotlight again

By Jonathan Werran | 17 December 2013

Newspapers report disgraced former Essex CC leader claimed £5,700 attendance allowances in July w...

Conservative councillors exit 'partisan' standards boards in bias rows

By Jonathan Werran | 13 December 2013

Tories in Hackney LBC and Hinckley & Bosworth separately withdraw from local councillor conduct p...

Freud gives Housing Benefit funding promise

By Jonathan Werran | 13 December 2013

Funding levels for housing benefit in 2014/15 will remain sufficient for local authorities ahead ...

LGA seeks funding pledge for statutory transparency code

By Jonathan Werran | 12 December 2013

Council chiefs demand a firm funding commitment to cover the cost of new legally-binding transpar...

Welsh councils face 3.4% grant cuts in 2014/15

By Jonathan Werran | 11 December 2013

Local authorities in Wales will experience 3.4% budget cuts in 2014/15, Welsh local government mi...

Give us the money and power to intervene, LGA tells Ofsted

By Jonathan Werran | 11 December 2013

Council chiefs have responded to today’s annual Ofsted report with a call for greater local autho...

Inside View: Autumn Statement a triumph of Orwellian doublethink

By Jonathan Werran | 11 December 2013

General government spending on goods and services could fall to its lowest level as a share of na...