Northamptonshire County Council Issues Emergency Spending Controls After Pleading Government For Money

A cash-strapped council has imposed emergency spending controls after warning that it faces a “severe financial challenge”.Conservative-controlled Northamptonshire County Council said it has issued a section 114 notice banning all new expenditure apart from statutory services for safeguarding vulnerable people, The Press Association reports.In a statement, the council said: “The notice has been served in light of the severe financial challenge facing the authority and the signi