Ofsted has reported back on Cheshire East Council’s latest Monitoring Visit conducted in April 2026. In 2024 Ofsted Inspectors judged the Cheshire East Children’s Service INADEQUATE, triggering the issuing of a formal “Improvement Notice” and a long-term process of monitoring visits to ensure t
Cheshire East Council’s Labour and Independent Coalition has voted to follow the recommendations of an independent panel to increase councillor allowances and backdate the rise to April 2024. The vote was close with 39 voting in favour of the rise, 33 against and two abstaining.
Protesters held another successful demonstration today against the Government's New Town Task Force (NTTF) proposal to build up to 20,000 homes across nearly 1,000 hectares of Cheshire Greenbelt.Last week, Sir Michael Lyons (Chair of the NTTF) at the MHCLG Select Committee, revealed that both the Le
Members of the Cheshire East Children’s Committee have been told that overspends of £8.86m are predicted by April next year, due to the rising cost of residential placements and the setting of ‘unrealistic savings’ in the 2025/26 budget.Finance officers told committee members that: "Although n
At an Extraordinary Meeting of Full Council this week, elected members voted in favour of a new Cheshire & Warrington Combined Mayoral Authority in 2026, by the narrowest of margins; 36 to 32 votes in favour of the plans. Supporters backed the plans saying it would trigger investment, jobs
Cheshire East needs to review domestic abuse strategy 'at pace' to safeguard vulnerable children, says councillorBy Belinda Ryan - Local Democracy Reporter 21st Mar 2025“Cheshire East needs to review its domestic abuse strategy 'at pace' and scrutinise it at committee so the council can be assured v
At last week’s Budget Council Meeting, Cllr Jos Saunders (Opposition Spokesperson: Children & Families Committee), highlighted the Council’s single largest debt, the SEND High Needs “deficit Reserve”, that continues to rise and which currently costs the Council £6m p.a.
Cheshire East's children's department admitted at the latest Children's Committee, that they don’t have enough money to fund the improvement plan that they submitted to the Department of Education in July, to bring its services up to standard – and doesn't know where the money is going to come
Cheshire East Councillors were informed yesterday that after just 2.5 years, the Executive Director of Children’s Services is to leave at the end of next week.
This follows an ongoing litany of financial and operational issues across the service which was judged to be ‘inadequate’ overall earlier t
In April 2018, Cheshire East Council was one of the first local authorities visited by Mark Riddell MBE (the government’s national implementation adviser for care leavers), who praised the Council for the high standard of their support for Care Leavers.
Mr Riddell found that:
There is now
