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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.
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2 Aug 18
Northamptonshire Council has proposed “radical service reductions” in areas including care for vulnerable people as a response to its second 114 notice.
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24 Jul 18
Northamptonshire County Council has issued an unprecedented second section 114 notice curbing all but essential spending, the council has revealed.
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13 Jul 18
Northamptonshire County Council has named its new chief executive as Theresa Grant.