The executive director of Cheshire East’s crisis-hit children’s services team is stepping down, it emerged today.
Deborah Woodcock, executive director of a department facing huge debts, has handed in her resignation.
Dear Editor,
In 2019, Children’s Services had a £1.6 million surplus.
However, the Labour-Independent administration has since accrued Special Needs debts of £90 million, which if not addressed will rise to £1.2billion by 2031.
EXCLUSIVE
More than £20 million of Council Tax has not been collected by Cheshire East Council in the past three years, we can reveal.
Figures obtained under FOI show there is a staggering £20,8m of outstanding Council Tax debt from the years 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22.
Falling into debt is something that you want to avoid at all costs as a business.
Sometimes, this is unavoidable, but often you will find that it is possible to prevent falling into dangerous debt but it will require careful management and ongoing effort.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cash-strapped Cheshire East Council is owed a staggering £23.25 million in council tax, new figures have shown.
The figure, obtained under FOI by Local Democracy Reporting Service, accounts for the years since the local authority was founded in 2009 to the end of the last financial year in April 2021.
Crewe & Nantwich MP Edward Timpson has received an apology for wrongly being named on a list of debtors.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) wrongly included Mr Timpson, Minister for Children and Families, on a published list.
A Nantwich councillor has called on Cheshire East Council to give back part of a £900,000 annual saving to town and parish councils.
Cllr Arthur Moran believes extra services and facilities taken on by Nantwich Town Council has helped Cheshire East.
More people in South Cheshire are saddling themselves with payday loan debts, warned Cheshire East Citizens Advice Bureau. Bosses at CECAB say they are seeing a worrying rise in clients struggling to repay not just one but several payday loans.
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