A significant outcome of the new rainbow alliance to run Cambridgeshire County Council will be the future of the ‘special relationship’ with Peterborough.
“Our joint administration will come to power after years of Government cuts,” it says.
Cllr Lucy Nethsingha (Lib Dem) preparing to take over as leader of Cambridgeshire County Council.
- Credit: Harry Rutter
“These have left our vital services chronically under-funded compared to the needs of the people we seek to serve.
“We will champion Cambridgeshire’s case to receive adequate funding to deliver our services and to utilise all options available to us to invest in our services and our people.”
The agreement also covers dispute resolution and a commitment to ‘act in good faith’ at all times.
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It will likely be between Liberal Democrat group leader Lucy Nethsingha and Conservative group leader Steve Count (Image: Cambridge News)
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In a report that referred to both national and local increases in home education, the council said there is an “increasing trend in parents removing their child from a school roll to elective home education due to dissatisfaction with schools, and a feeling that to home educate is the only option left”.
The figures include children being educated at home and who are not enrolled in school – children learning from home during the pandemic are not classed as cases of elective home education if they are still enrolled in school.
There were 678 recorded active cases of parents choosing to home educate their children in Cambridgeshire in 2013/14, which rose to 1,381 in 2019/20.