A plan to save the county council more than £20m which would return it to break even for 2018/19 has the caveat of some ‘serious risks’ councillors have warned.
The head teacher leading a 200-strong school protest against Northamptonshire County Council’s proposed funding cuts wants councillors to reject the rescue plan tomorrow (Tues) because he says it will have a big impact on education.
Headteachers and managers at two hundreds schools in Northamptonshire have issued an unprecedented public warning to county council bosses that their proposed cuts will put the safety and wellbeing of children at risk.
More than 140 beds are laying empty each week at private care homes being paid for by Northamptonshire County Council because the patients the authority is referring do not qualify under the contract.
Staff working in children's services told Northamptonshire County Council that they 'didn't feel valued', and there's a 'real risk' that more will soon leave.
Northamptonshire County Council is spending on average £900,000 a month on social workers from recruitment agencies – and spent £3.6m in the first quarter of the year on temporary staff.
Commissioners will have to broker a deal with the Government to allow Northamptonshire County Council to balance a £35 million budget black hole, the authority leader says, or it will be faced with making some 'very challenging decisions'.
Northamptonshire County Council is looking to the boroughs and districts collecting an additional £6m in council tax this year in order to help it make its savings target.
Northamptonshire’s frail and elderly are at risk of being left ‘unsupported and their needs escalating’ says an award-winning home repair charity whose county council funding will stop at the end of the month.
A Conservative county councillor has been sanctioned for two tweets criticising the Tory leadership - including one where he said a cabinet member was ‘as much use as a condom with a hole in it’.
