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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Council finance chiefs urged to remain vigilant

By Jonathan Werran | 10 July 2017

Council chiefs must continue to remain vigilant in scanning ahead for warning signs of a financia...

Combined experience

By Jonathan Werran | 02 May 2017

Local elections have been overshadowed by the snap General Election, but how will the first gener...

Doomed to success?

By Jonathan Werran | 26 April 2017

The snap election has shunted full business rates retention into the sidings. But does the sector...

Council's 'dire finances' under scrutiny by MPs

By Dan Peters | 08 March 2017

A council has denied it is being run ‘incompetently’ after its MP flagged up the state of its fin...

Income generation becoming increasingly important for councils

By Jonathan Werran | 28 February 2017

The majority of local authorities will be unable to manage continued deficit reductions by the en...

Councils to be investigated as part of child abuse inquiry

By Jonathan Werran | 28 February 2017

Public hearings for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which is due to investigate ...

Directors leave Sandwell's struggling children's department

By Jonathan Werran | 28 February 2017

Two senior directors responsible for running Sandwell MBC’s beleaguered children’s services depar...

PM launches child protection taskforce - as Rotherham net widens

By Jonathan Werran | 25 June 2015

Prime minister David Cameron has appointed education secretary Nicky Morgan to launch a new Child...

Call for transformation fund

By Jonathan Werran | 24 June 2015

Embedding prevention within the social care system will require an annual £1.3bn cash injection o...

Leicestershire CA to be revealed

By Jonathan Werran | 24 June 2015

Plans for a combined authority covering Leicester and Leicestershire focusing on land use and pla...