Understaffed departments and a reliance on temporary staff

A budget monitoring report being looked at by the council’s executive later today sheds some light on the long talked about staffing issues at the North unitary

By Sarah Ward

North Northamptonshire Council is relying heavily on agency staff and is also hugely understaffed in some key departments, analysis of its latest budget report shows.

The latest financial monitoring report for the authority’s first operating year has shed some light on what the issues are within the authority.

For several months there have be…