The commissioner has been named as Malcolm Newsam, who has previously been drafted in as commissioner to help improve children's services in Rotherham and Sandwell. His appointment follows a highly critical Ofsed report into the quality of child protection services in Northamptonshire.
Among Newsam's priorities is to review how children's services in the county can best be run should the proposed restructure be implemented.
The Ministry of Housing, Local Government and Communities has launched a consultation on plans to replace the county's current two-tier system, of a county council and district and borough councils, and create two single-tier authorities. If approved, the two new authorities - covering the west and north of the county - would come into being on 1 April, 2020.
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