More than £600,000 from Nottingham City Council’s reserves will be spent on hiring a number of new employees to help improve its failing children’s services.
Children’s services at the Labour-run authority were rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted inspectors in September and a formal ‘improvement notice’ was issued by the Government a month later.
The services must be provided by the council by law and, should the council fail to improve, Government commissioners may be sent in to take over the service.
