The local authority spent the annualised equivalent of £382.7m on pay in the third quarter of the current financial year (2024-25).
Steven Pilsworth emailed staff to say stop non-essential travel, don’t book an event venue, no tech device buys and no printing “loads of leaflets”.
Requests for help from Hertfordshire’s adult care services have risen 18%, county council’s adult care, health and wellbeing committee was told.
Hertfordshire County Council’s development control committee has approved a new water tank for its waste transfer station in Ware.
Nature in the spotlight as Hertfordshire County Council aims to cut carbon emissions.
Just one in 10 people survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and an early intervention significantly improves outcomes.
The county had 66 cases between January 1 and September 16 this year – Essex reported 18.
A report to Herts County Council’s environment committee revealed there were 30 reports of violent incidents at its 16 recycling centres in 2023-24.
Report to county council’s education committee summarised data surrounding ECHPs – one of the biggest causes of complaint by parents of SEND children.
Hertfordshire Chief Constable Charlie Hall admits just 5% of alleged perpetrators are charged and appear in court.
“White ethnicity children are under-represented within Hertfordshire’s youth justice service, accounting for 71% of the offending population.”
Education health and care plans for Herts children with special educational needs and disabilities have increased by almost a third in the past year.
The monitoring is available to anyone over 40 who has not had a reading in the past six months.
“There are clear levels of dissatisfaction with many services and concerns about the outcomes that are delivered for children and young people.”
Four candidates vie to succeed David Lloyd: Jonathan Ash-Edwards (Con), Matt Fisher (Green), Tom Plater (Labour) and Sean Prendergast (Lib Dem).
