Government-appointed commissioners have been sent to help improve services across cash-strapped Northamptonshire County Council, which was subject to a Section 114 notice, banning it from new spending outside of children’s and adult social care.
Their October 2019 letter to the government, which has just been published, updates ministers on efforts to improve services. This includes turning around children’s services, which were rated as "inadequate" by Ofsted last year after inspectors found multiple failings, including placing children in unsafe settings.
The commissioners’ report details that contingency funds have been released to recruit four new assistant directors to reduce a high turnover of staff, agency staff costs and improve support for children.
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