Report into widespread financial and management failures says bailing out council would be ‘reward for failureNorthamptonshire county council (NCC),which declared effective bankruptcy final month, should be scrapped, or a devastating inspectors report into widespread financial and management failures at the authority has recommended.
The council’s leader,Heather Smith, stood down after the report’s publication, and writing in her resignation letter that she blamed “vicious public insults by four local MPs”,adding you cannot win” if the “machinery of government is turned against you”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk