Andrew Christie has been confirmed as the new Children’s Commissioner for Northamptonshire, with Clare Chamberlain also joining as Support Commissioner.
A community football club is set to be awarded a 25-year lease by the borough council to help facilitate building a new clubhouse and community centre.
The Labour opposition at the county council say the departure of the two highest officers in children’s services as well as the commissioner shows that something is ‘rotten’ within the authority.
The councillor of the ward in which a teenager was recently shot in Northampton says gangs in the area are recruiting young people leaving care, and that more needs to be done to prevent this.
Two Northamptonshire councils have successfully jumped the first hurdle in a £6.5million lawsuit against their pension fund by a former contract holder.
County council staff look set to find out this month whether they will get an in-year pay rise after the council’s leader said they would make a ‘final decision’ in October.
As the financial crisis tightened and people across the country started to pay attention to what was going on at Northamptonshire County Council, it became abundantly clear that the authority had not been paying too much close attention to itself in recent years.
