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RM's avatar

It’s a bit rich for the leader of NNC coming out with this clap-trap

“I’m looking forward to when we get the children of North Northamptonshire back under our control here because then we can really begin to work hard to deliver even better services.”

We know how NCC badly failed our children before the Children’s’ Trust took over and many of the councillors responsible for that are now sitting on the successor councils.

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NNJ Reader's avatar

Doing the parents job for them, that is majorly naive but the usual knee jerk budget reaction to budgets. The poor agency staff who are working with the families.

Remember your Cabinet cut home start, family centres, youth services, where exactly did you think that would end up?

The decisions that are made are incredibly difficult, the courts that have to hear the evidence, the foster carers that are on stand by.

Does he think there is a queue outside Angel glass house, of parents handing over their children? Go and spend a week on the frontline before such outrageous statements are made.

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Alastair Thomson's avatar

Enormous sympathy for Northampton International Academy in having to deal with safety issues around RAAC but concerned that the students will be impacted adversely if the sixth form is moved into a converted office building on the other side of town? It may be possible for offices to be repurposed into general classrooms but with there be science labs or other specialist facilities? And what effect will there be on the rest of the school's extra curricular programmes with the sixth formers gone?

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Andy Davies's avatar

“Are we just taking responsibility for some of these children when parents are taking an easy option and just handing children over to us?”

Keep the quotes coming Smithers & co..they’ll just keep doing Starmer’s work for him when he sticks them on the side of Labour battle buses. 🤡

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