Fears cash-strapped council may cut services for vulnerable children

Northamptonshire county council scrambles to save £70m amid warnings even core services are at riskThe funding crisis facing local authorities has deepened after a Tory-run council warned services for vulnerable children and adults can no longer be protected as it prepared drastic measures to survive ongoing financial difficulties described as “without parallel in modern times”.Northamptonshire county council – already technically insolvent – has called an extraordi