Northamptonshire County Council first announced plans to establish an independent trust in late 2015, with a planned launch date of September 2016. However, the project has been subject to delays and is yet to launch.
In the meantime the council's financial situation has deteriorated, resulting in the council being issued a "section 114 notice" in February, banning any new spending with the exception of safeguarding vulnerable children and adults. Then last month a government report recommended that Northamptonshire County Council be scrapped and replaced with two unitary authorities.
However, a council report reveals that the local authority intends to push ahead with plans to establish an independent trust, called Children First Northamptonshire, which is earmarked to launch in April 2019.
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