LABOUR OPPOSITION TABLE MOTION OF 'NO CONFIDENCE' IN COUNCIL LEADERSHIP

                                           

Cllr Patrick - gunning for council leadership 

THE leader of North East Lincolnshire Council, Cllr Philip Jackson - along with his cabinet - face a vote of No Confidence later this week.

For tomorrow's meeting of the authority, Labour leader Cllr Matthew Patrick, will claim their administration of the authority is "untenable" in  the wake of continuing issues in the NELC department which oversees the care of disadvantaged children.

His motion, which is being supported by Cllr Karl Wilson, reads as follows:   

In November  2021, the findings of an Ofsted review of the children’s services of North East Lincolnshire Council were made public/

The conclusion was that the council’s rating had crashed from an overall ‘good’ rating to inadequate.

The report ent on to damn the council and corporate leadership in the strongest possible terms. 

Examples of failure included a reference that "not all senior leaders and council members understand the depth of the failings, either to hold each other to account, or to prioritise the needs of children in corporate decision making".

The portfolio holder for children’s services (Cllr Ian Lindley)  has time and time again failed to demonstrate a grasp of the challenges at hand, often showing a lack of understanding the services that sit within his portfolio.

He has demonstrated no decisive strategic insight into what he must do to start to turn around this failure of the most vulnerable children and families in our borough. 

Despite this, the leader of the council has seen fit to keep him in post, an afront to the families that have been failed in the worst possible terms. 

This council finds it no longer has confidence in the current leader, Cllr Jackson, and the wider cabinet he leads.

The meeting, to be held at 7pm at Grimsby Town Hall, is open to the public.