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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Mutual pensions deal to hit savings target

By Jonathan Werran | 18 September 2013

Spending watchdogs are content.

Success for online voter registration dry-run

By Jonathan Werran | 18 September 2013

Early evidence from trials suggests millions more people than first expected will not have to tak...

Councils need powers to manage school places' pressures, survey shows

By Jonathan Werran | 17 September 2013

The need for a strategic ‘middle tier’ to oversee complex schools arrangements is vital, survey o...

Councils face sexual health budget timebomb, experts warn

By Jonathan Werran | 16 September 2013

Local authorities risk share of £137bn public health costs if cuts to sexual health budgets impos...

Ministers could act to break Northern Ireland council deadlock

By Jonathan Werran | 16 September 2013

Assembly ministers might intervene to break deadlock that threatens to scupper local government ...

MPs attack homes regulator

By Jonathan Werran | 12 September 2013

A panel of MPs has raised serious concerns with how the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) reports.

Inside View: Whitehall reform doomed to success?

By Jonathan Werran | 11 September 2013

Among mandarins of an earlier generation any unworkable Government policy that had to be seen to ...

Concerns over judicial review cutback

By Jonathan Werran | 11 September 2013

The chairman of the anti-HS2 51m group has raised concerns over Government plans to limit the num...

Report could claim civil servant's job

By Jonathan Werran | 11 September 2013

Early failure to implement the coalition’s flagship Universal Credit (UC) programme could claim t...

Wood appointed new chief of Cumbria CC

By Jonathan Werran | 11 September 2013

Cumbria CC appoints Diane Wood as its full-time chief executive following a meeting of the full c...