Northants Council Leader must resign after reviews into toddler murders – Andrew Gwynne

Andrew Gwynne MP, Labour’s Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, responding
to the news that Northants Council has been strongly criticised by two
serious case reviews into the murders of toddlers, said:

“My thoughts are with the family of the two children involved in this tragic case. Losing a child is an awful trauma.

“A decade after the tragic death of Baby P and vulnerable young
people are still being failed, a situation made worse by years of
Government cuts to the services that are there to prevent these
tragedies from happening.

“There have been repeated failures in children’s services in
Northamptonshire since 2013 and there is now no question: Council Leader
Matt Golby has to go. He failed when he was in charge of children’s
services, and he’s failed since taking over the Council. The people of
Northants need to be reassured that vulnerable children in the county
will be protected. And the County Council must immediately restore the
funding that it has cut from children’s services.”

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