A Best Value Notice issued by the government to South Cambridgeshire District Council has been extended by six months. In a letter to chief executive Liz Watts, reproduced in full below, a government official says there are “ongoing concerns about its trial of a ‘four-day working week’. It means the council must continue to supply a raft of data showing the “impacts of the trial on services offered to residents and on the organisation itself”. Government minister Lee Rowley called on the council to end its four-day week trial in letters issued in June and September last year. But the Liberal D…
