Norfolk County Council plans to invest £16.5m in its children’s services following a damning Ofsted inspection, the BBC reports. The council said it would spend £2.7m on an outside agency to immediately employ 40 social workers for six months until it can recruit its own staff. Funding of £2.3m would go towards council staff pay for two years, £1.5m towards schools and £10m to support children with special educational needs.
Charity Commission chairman William Shawcross has warned that large salaries paid to charity staff “bring the charitable world into disrepute”. He said that charity trustees must consider whether large salaries are appropriate and fair when so many charities are experiencing funding difficulties. He was responding to a Daily Telegraph investigation that found 30 staff at 14 leading UK foreign aid charities were paid more than £100,000 last year.
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