Social Value Ideas for North Northamptonshire Council
We have identified 50 evidence-based social value themes for North Northamptonshire Council in East Midlands across 42 service areas. These insights are derived from the latest council meeting transcripts and can inform your social value strategy for bids and tenders.
Children's Trust Overspend
Children’s services were the dominant budget pressure, with £13.6m identified in the outturn report and members noting the long-running scale of overspend. The committee expressed concern about oversi…
“The main pressures relate to children services amounting to GBP 13,600,000 and includes the Children's Trust. There is a net pressure of £3,700,000 in…”
Holiday activities recommissioning
The council agreed to begin a new competitive procurement process to recommission the Holiday Activities and Food programme from 2027, with DfE funding confirmed into at least 2028/29. The procurement…
“Speaker 6: Sorry. Thank you. So I'm pleased to present this report seeking approval to recommission the holiday activities and food program. The holid…”
Letter to Ministry of Justice
The committee agreed to delegate to the chief executive the action of writing to the Ministry of Justice about the cost impact of children remanded into local authority care. This is a clear advocacy/…
“Um perhaps Colin I I don't know maybe um we need to do some more digging around with other officer colleagues on what the West Northampton she colleag…”
Self-build scheme approved
The committee approved outline planning permission for three self-build dwellings on land south of 123 Home Close, Braybrook Road, Dingley. Members accepted that although the site is in open countrysi…
“Speaker 11: It requires a balanced judgment on all the material considerations before us. The key question is therefore not whether the conflict exist…”
Heldons Parkway application deferred
The committee deferred planning application NE2400599FUL at Heldons Parkway, Thrapston Plot 5 because late representations raised concerns about the habitats regulations assessment and additional wint…
“Speaker 3: Thank you, Chair. Members will see from the late representations that we have had additional representation. And that's raised concerns abo…”
Planning delegation update approved
The committee recommended changes to the constitution to align with national planning reform, including a new scheme of delegation effective 2026-10-31, retention of a 13-member planning committee, an…
“So as as set out in the report as part of the um national reform of planning the government has proposed and is implementing changes to planning commi…”
Business rates written off
The Executive approved write-off of 14 irrecoverable business rates accounts totalling £1.147 million. Officers said the debts were linked to administration, liquidation, bankruptcy, dissolution or co…
“I'm presenting the report on national non-domemestic rates write offs and seeking approval for a number of business rates debts that officers have con…”
2025/26 General Fund Overspend
The finance monitoring report identified a draft 2025/26 general fund overspend of £13.8m against a net budget of £406.3m. The largest pressures were children’s services, adult social care and housing…
“The draft position or the draft outturn position for twenty fivetwenty six for the general fund is an overspend of GBP 13,800,000. The housing revenu…”
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