The funding of children’s services poses a ‘significant risk’ to Northamptonshire CC and the viability of its successors, commissioners have warned.
In a report to the Government, commissioners Tony McArdle and Brian Roberts said that children’s social care ‘remains a significant financial risk’ and was ‘fundamental to the recovery of the council, and, ultimately, the viability of the new unitary councils’.
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