Social Value Ideas for North Northamptonshire Council

We have identified 50 evidence-based social value themes for North Northamptonshire Council in East Midlands across 45 service areas. These insights are derived from the latest council meeting transcripts and can inform your social value strategy for bids and tenders.

Policy15
Opportunity5
Action11
Spending15
Pressure4
Spending1% confidence

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…”
Pressure1% confidence

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…”
Policy1% confidence

Adopt community plus leisure model

The committee supported a policy direction to transition currently externally operated leisure centres to an in-house delivery model using the community plus service offer. This sets the strategic ope…

“We have had a detailed option appraisal was done around all the different governance um uh options available to us that we would take um some options …”
Policy1% confidence

In-house leisure model

The Executive approved a shift to a single in-house leisure management model delivered through a new Community Plus offer. The policy is framed as a strategic move to improve consistency, social value…

“Speaker 27: Thank you, Lida. And perhaps it would be prudent to split my presentation into two: one, to address some of the questions that have been a…”
Pressure1% confidence

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…”
Opportunity1% confidence

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…”

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