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28 Jan 22
External auditors for an East Midlands authority will review financial reporting arrangements after identifying fraudulent payments in the council's 2019-20 financial statements.
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1 Nov 21
North Northamptonshire County Council has promised to review its systems, after sending out court summons and taking early council tax payments in error.
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7 Jun 21
Three years of hard work since Northamptonshire County Council’s financial collapse means the two unitary authorities that replaced it have been left with solid financial foundations, the government-...
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16 Aug 19
Crisis-hit Northamptonshire County Council is facing more financial hardship as its projected deficit more than tripled in six months.
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30 Jul 19
Northamptonshire County Council’s children services are “failing to keep children safe”, a watchdog has concluded.
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16 Jun 19
In a feature article and editorial published online and in the June 2019 edition of Public Finance, we referred to a “litany” of high profile “audit failures” in recent years, including Lehman...
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29 May 19
The BBC has named 11 English councils at risk of exhausting their reserves entirely by 2024 if they continue to raid them at current rates.
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28 Mar 19
Northamptonshire County Council’s commissioners have called for the local authority’s section 114 notice to be lifted, saying it should move from “under the shadow of this failure”.
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22 Feb 19
Councillors have approved Northamptonshire County Council’s 4.99% council tax rise, the local authority has announced.
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29 Jan 19
The final local government finance settlement has handed Northamptonshire County Council a lifeline by allowing the cash-strapped authority greater council tax flexibility.
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3 Dec 18
Frontline services in Northamptonshire will be largely protected in next year’s budget, the troubled county council claimed – although council tax will rise.
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30 Nov 18
Northamptonshire County Council will be on a “more sustainable financial footing” after using capital receipts to balance its budget this year, the government has said.
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29 Nov 18
James Brokenshire has stepped in after government-appointed commissioners concluded Northamptonshire County Council was looking at the possibility of having to set an unbalanced budget this year.
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14 Nov 18
An additional commissioner is likely to be sent into troubled Northamptonshire County Council after Ofsted found children’s services have “significantly declined”.
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11 Oct 18
Northamptonshire Council’s incoming finance chief has told PF he is “looking forward” to the “biggest challenge” of his career.
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9 Oct 18
Northamptonshire County Council has appointed a new finance chief to take up the reins, the local authority has confirmed to PF.
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18 Sep 18
Surrey County Council must “act now” to make sure it has enough reserves to plug its predicted budget gap of £94m by 2019-20, CIPFA has said.
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10 Sep 18
Thousands of children could miss out on care unless the government clarifies what councils must legally provide as they cut services, the Children’s Commissioner has told PF.
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29 Aug 18
Two Northamptonshire councils have voted to accept unitary reorganisation, which means the decision can now be sent to secretary of state James Brokenshire.
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21 Aug 18
Torbay Council has become the latest local authority to hit financial troubles and has placed spending restrictions on all non-urgent expenditure.
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17 Aug 18
Councils in Northamptonshire have put forward their joint proposal for two new unitary authorities.
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16 Aug 18
Stricken Northamptonshire County Council is looking for a new permanent finance director who will “roll their sleeves up” and is ready to make “hard decisions”.
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14 Aug 18
Northamptonshire Council’s plan to close 21 libraries to help make savings is unlawful, the High Court has found.
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9 Aug 18
Northamptonshire County Council has voted to accept stripped-down spending plans.
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7 Aug 18
Children’s services could suffer as more councils are revealed to be struggling financially, local government experts have warned.
28 Jan 22External auditors for an East Midlands authority will review financial reporting arrangements after identifying fraudulent payments in the council's 2019-20 financial statements.
1 Nov 21North Northamptonshire County Council has promised to review its systems, after sending out court summons and taking early council tax payments in error.
7 Jun 21Three years of hard work since Northamptonshire County Council’s financial collapse means the two unitary authorities that replaced it have been left with solid financial foundations, the government-...
16 Aug 19Crisis-hit Northamptonshire County Council is facing more financial hardship as its projected deficit more than tripled in six months.
30 Nov 18Northamptonshire County Council will be on a “more sustainable financial footing” after using capital receipts to balance its budget this year, the government has said.
29 Nov 18James Brokenshire has stepped in after government-appointed commissioners concluded Northamptonshire County Council was looking at the possibility of having to set an unbalanced budget this year.
14 Nov 18An additional commissioner is likely to be sent into troubled Northamptonshire County Council after Ofsted found children’s services have “significantly declined”.
11 Oct 18Northamptonshire Council’s incoming finance chief has told PF he is “looking forward” to the “biggest challenge” of his career.
18 Sep 18Surrey County Council must “act now” to make sure it has enough reserves to plug its predicted budget gap of £94m by 2019-20, CIPFA has said.
10 Sep 18Thousands of children could miss out on care unless the government clarifies what councils must legally provide as they cut services, the Children’s Commissioner has told PF.
21 Aug 18Torbay Council has become the latest local authority to hit financial troubles and has placed spending restrictions on all non-urgent expenditure.
7 Aug 18Children’s services could suffer as more councils are revealed to be struggling financially, local government experts have warned.
