FINANCE

Council forced to exhaust reserves

By Mark Conrad | 03 April 2018

Troubled Northamptonshire CC has taken a ‘last resort’ decision to exhaust its entire reserves as...

FINANCE

Northamptonshire: MHCLG letter details intervention

By Mark Conrad | 28 March 2018

Northamptonshire CC will continue to make most day-to-day decisions over how the county is run, d...

WHITEHALL

Careful now

14 March 2018

Diary is well aware of Government’s innately cautious stance to pretty much everything.

HEALTH

Government backs DoLS replacement

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2018

The Government has said it ‘agrees in principle’ that the current Deprivation of Liberty Safeguar...

FINANCE

Union warning over Northamptonshire pay freeze

By Mark Conrad | 06 March 2018

Trade unions and opposition councillors this week criticised Northamptonshire CC’s decision to fr...

FINANCE

Tories oust leader as Northants signs off budget

By Mark Conrad | 28 February 2018

Northamptonshire CC today signed off its redrafted budget – but the council’s leader has been ous...

LEGAL

Filling the gap: what councils need to know to replace Carillion 

By Colette Morgan-Ford | 27 February 2018

Councils looking to avoid high costs to cover services left unmanned by the fall of Carillion mus...

FINANCE

Gwynne calls for commissioners to take over Northamptonshire CC

By Dan Peters | 23 February 2018

Shadow local government secretary Andrew Gwynne has urged his political rival Sajid Javid to send...

BUSINESS

Rates relief row comes to court

By Dan Peters | 22 February 2018

The dispute between councils and NHS trusts over business rates relief has flared up again after ...

FINANCE

Sunak: Northamptonshire an exception

By Dan Peters | 21 February 2018

No other councils have contacted Whitehall with financial concerns on the scale of Northamptonshi...