In 2013, Norfolk CC was given ‘one of the worst inadequate judgements’ in the country, according to the council’s managing director, Dr Wendy Thomson, who took over the following year. By 2015, improvements had been made, but it remained inadequate.
Five years after its initial judgement, the council has finally broken free from the damning rating that so often shackles authorities into a cycle of failure.
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