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With parties at Babergh and Mid Suffolk district councils failing to secure majorities, a fortnight of behind-closed-doors wrangling is set to ensue.
Authority reduced spending on temporary staff and contractors by £153,504 in the three months to October compared with previous three month period.
The Regal Theatre in Stowmarket secured a grant of £1.56m from Mid Suffolk District Council last year.
Parties at both authorities failed to secure majorities in the elections.
Voters across Suffolk will take to the polls today for the 2019 local elections, with plenty at stake for candidates and political parties.
Voters across Suffolk will take to the polls today for the 2019 local elections.
Concerns surrounding a task force have been raised.
Calls have been made by education champions in Suffolk to bring poorly performing academies back under council control.
Plans to borrow millions of pounds to create new specialist education places for children has been given the green light by council leaders.
It represents the first in a wave of applications to be decided for Thurston.
A joint local plan for future development across the district will be a priority for two new councils following this year’s local elections.
The first wave of new places is expected to be ready for September 2020.
Opposition groups have pulled out of a cross-party task force at Suffolk County Council over controversial plans which threaten children’s centres.
Figures published by the National Executive Union suggested that 93 per cent of all education authorities in the country had lost out on SEND cash.
Figures published by a union this week suggested that 93 per cent of all education authorities in the country had lost out on special education cash
The NFA Group has submitted proposals to convert the Grade II Listed Wetheringsett Manor into a school.
The Conservatives have traditionally enjoyed a large majority at the former St Edmundsbury Borough and Forest Heath District Councils.
Conservative chiefs at the county council have already stressed that no decision has been made.
Ipswich MP Sandy Martin, Labour group county councillors and parents gathered to launch a petition and the Save Suffolk’s Children’s Centres campaign.
The merger of two Suffolk councils is still on the cards, according to their leaders – one year after the plans were shelved.
