{"id":324630,"date":"2025-12-01T19:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324630\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:39:09","slug":"west-northamptonshire-council-probed-over-mental-health-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324630\/","title":{"rendered":"West Northamptonshire Council probed over mental health service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking at <a href=\"https:\/\/westnorthants.moderngov.co.uk\/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=142&amp;MId=1695\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a full council meeting,, external<\/a> Labour group leader Sally Keeble asked Mark Arnull what thought the council had given to the care and employment consequences of a potential closure of the whole St Andrew&#8217;s service, and whether it could do anything to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, she said there were &#8220;fears for St Andrew&#8217;s as a whole&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some people say it is &#8216;too big to fail&#8217;, but it is very severely challenged and there are real concerns for people about their long-term employment and also, of course, about the care services,&#8221; said Keeble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It would be really helpful if you would give a verbal assurance, as well as give the information in writing, as to what the council is doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response, Arnull said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve asked our colleagues in council departments to look at options in which we can continue to support St Andrew&#8217;s and, if possible, if not directly [then] indirectly, and I&#8217;m happy to write back to you what that looks like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;St Andrew&#8217;s is a private establishment, as we know, and I will need to take advice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking at a full council meeting,, external Labour group leader Sally Keeble asked Mark Arnull what thought the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-324630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}