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Interim Chief Executive Martin Henry (left) with WNC Leader Cllr Mark Arnull.
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Council spent more than £32,000 in recruitment costs to find new chief executive

Northants Send Mummas co-founder Emma Briggs (left).
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Mums speak out on back-to-school season for children with additional needs

The mum claims that North Northamptonshire Council has not been in contact about a school placement for several months and has failed to secure an option for her child.

Mum forced to quit job as child has no school place after nearly a year

Reform UK councillors stood outside the Northampton Guildhall. (Image: Nadia Lincoln LDRS)

Reform's audit team set to visit council and use AI to find 'any waste'

Sally Keeble (left), Dan Lister (top right) and Jonathan Harris have taken up leadership positions on West Northamptonshire Council after the local elections last week.
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New opposition leaders speak out after Reform takes charge

Nether Heyford has the highest council tax bill this year compared to the rest of West Northamptonshire.

Village with highest council tax bill in West Northants REVEALED

North Northamptonshire Council is predicting a £24 million Dedicated Schools Grant deficit, whilst West Northants expects its shortfall to reach £13.8m by the end of the financial year.
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Both Northants councils predicting black hole in schools budget of almost £40m

Serife Mehmet, 30, said she has often wished to move away from the area due to the extent of the rubbish

Revolting rubbish and nightmare potholes are making my car filthy

Figures have been revealed from Northamptonshire Children's Trust.

Child in care sent more than 250 miles away from home as county figures revealed

The huge mountain of rubbish has built up at a property in Dalkeith Street

Disgusting mountain of rubbish attracting rats and plaguing street

The leaders of North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire Council have responded to calls from the Local Government Association (LGA) to scrap the council tax annual increase cap.

'LGA’s calls for unlimited council tax increases no substitute for reform’
The leaders of both Northamptonshire councils have called for a “comprehensive, root-and-branch” reform of local government finance as local authorities are struggling in the face of a £6 billion black hole.
Nadia Lincoln

Purple shaded area = old constituency boundary and Green outlines = new constituency boundaries.

Daventry candidates say they are committed to representing all constituents

16 year old Amiee, right, is one of the students who transport is still to be arranged.

More than 130 Northamptonshire children without school transport due to council ...

The young children all during the lockdown months between April and July.

Seven Northamptonshire children died during lockdown

Northants health bosses are exploring local test and trace systems. (pixaby image).

Local test and trace being considered to combat Covid spread in Northamptonshire

Bella had her thirteenth birthday at Arnold House without her family.

"When can I see my daughter again?" Council won’t tell mother whose 13-year-old...

Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Stephen Mold.

PCC confident police and fire services are both heading in the right direction

The three district councils in the west of the county are all considering the financial impacts of coronavirus.

Little given away on how district and borough councils will financially cope wit...

Stephen Mold is the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire

'This is not something they signed up for' - Commissioner praises Northants fire...

Councillor Richard Auger has been leader of Daventry District Council since November.

'Lives have to come first' - Daventry district council leader on dealing with co...

Stephen Mold has been the Police and Crime Commissioner for four years now.

PCC looks back on four-year tenure on what would have been election day

Northamptonshire County Council is getting a further funding boost from the Government.

Northamptonshire County Council gets extra £13 million from government to deal w...

A third of people who have died in Northants care homes since April 10th have had Covid-19 recorded on their death certificate.

Deaths in Northamptonshire care homes rise sharply

Councils across the county have been given an extension on their audit deadlines

Councils across Northamptonshire given extension by government to sign off accou...

James Thomas was recently appointed as the interim CEO of the new children's trust for Northamptonshire, but will be leaving at the end of June before it launches

Council had ‘full knowledge’ when appointing children’s trust CEO that he had ap...

James Thomas was only recently appointed as the interim CEO of the new children's trust which will launch in July

Newly appointed CEO of Northamptonshire children's trust to leave despite only b...

Northamptonshire will have two unitary authority councils - for the North and the West - from next year

Government to appoint leaders for new shadow councils in Northamptonshire - inst...

The county council is to be scrapped next year and replaced by two unitary authorities

Existing councillors set to take up mantle of helping form two new unitary counc...
Existing councillors are now set to help launch the two new unitary authority councils that will be created next April.
James Averill

Northamptonshire County Council is stepping up its plans to tackle the coronavirus outbreak

From food shortages to medical supplies - how coronavirus is being tackled by No...

The postponement means Northamptonshire will have gone six years without elections for the majority of local councillors

Northamptonshire elections postponed for one year due to coronavirus outbreak

Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley visited Northampton this afternoon. Picture by Niklas Halle'n/AFP via Getty Images

Green Party leader urges Northamptonshire councils not to delay on tackling clim...

The council's planning committee met this week

The big planning decisions by Daventry District Council this week

The Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Board will not make the report public because it says the data is not its to share.

Northamptonshire safeguarding board refuses to make homeless deaths report publi...

The county council will contact the children's commissioner Malcolm Newsam to urge him to appear before them

Northamptonshire councillors back motion to haul ‘absent’ children’s commissione...

Hope for nearly all under-threat Northants libraries

The county council has a long term PFI contract with Shaw Healthcare

Work ongoing to make healthcare contract more ‘efficient’ for Northamptonshire C...

Northamptonshire County Council is in a long term contract with Shaw Healthcare

Northamptonshire County Council wins £100k settlement after dispute over perform...

Council leader Matthew Golby was responding to calls to resign when he made the remark.

Council leader under fire for referring to Serious Case Reviews as 'this sort of...

Northamptonshire County Council will be abolished in 2021 to make way for two new unitary authorities

Northamptonshire councillors 'in the dark' over unitary costings want detailed b...

Daventry Distirct Council leader Chris Millar left the room while the debate on whether to commend him took place

Daventry’s Conservative councillors reject motion to commend their own leader ov...

The financial crisis at Northamptonshire County Council led to the recommendation of replacing it with two new councils

'No change' in forecast £44million cost to set up Northamptonshire unitary autho...

One Angel Square

County council to spend £500,000 on more HQ office equipment

Councillor Andy Mercer's cabinet role is being scrapped

Northamptonshire councillor in charge of local government reform told to leave c...

Commissioners Brian Roberts and Tony McArdle wrote to council leaders to express their interest of sitting in on the joint committee meetings

County council commissioners will sit in on unitary set-up meetings to 'minimise...

Northamptonshire County Council seeking to recoup millions overpaid in care fees
Northamptonshire County Council says it will seek to recover the millions it has overpaid to care providers.
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