Articles by shepwayvox
SDC have given themselves new powers to entrap the poor, to criminalise them, put them into debt and into prison. On the 18/06/15 SDC introduced Public Space Protection Order [...]
Money, Money, Money … Or Why your Council Tax is a Little Higher.
Buried deep in the SDC’s General Fund Revenue original budget 2015/16, Appendix 2 – The General Fund summary – where the money for Cllr’s [...]
Something is Rotten in the District Of Shepway
“We will a tale unfold, whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres.” WS [...]
A Case of Discrimination?
Discrimination is unlawful, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. We would like to highlight a case by comparing two cases. “The multimillion [...]
SDC Cllrs Expenses Investigation 3
A member of the Shepwayvox team reported both Cllr Simmons who is Chairman of the Audit and Standards Committe, which looks after Cllrs behaviour and Former Cllr Russell [...]
SDC’s Economic Development Website
“Shepway District Council’s Economic Development Team is seeking to appoint a software website development agency to develop an Economic Development (ED) Website [...]
Simply a Matter of Political Choice
Mother-of-four Michelle Dorrell from Folkestone tears on Question Time last Thursday 15/10/15, demonstrates how important tax credits are to people in the District. In [...]
Shepway Facts
23.2% of adults in Shepway are over 65. 22.7% of children live in poverty in Shepway 39.60% of adults in Shepway have no qualifications and/or no Level 1 [...]
Debt, Job Losses & Shepway Bonds
On the 25/1/16 Universal Credit will replace JSA or unemployment benefit in Shepway according to the DWP. This may not mean much to those who are employed, but it will have a [...]
SDC Facebook Page 2
In today’s Daily Mail German Police warn parents to stop putting pictures of their children on social media to stop them being shared by paedophiles because the [...]
Open Letter to Alistair Stewart SDC CEO.
Dear Mr Stewart Re: Open Letter. As the CEO of Shepway District Council, the buck ultimately stops with you. You are the Captain at the helm of the good ship Shepway. In this [...]
The Council Tax Scam
Have you ever looked closely at your Council Tax (CT) demand to see who gets your money, what proportion they get, and what percentage increases have been added to the [...]
Who Owns The Folkestone Herald?
The Herald is owned by Local World. Their address is PO Box 10177, 50 St George Street, Leicester LE1 8ED. Local World is owned by the Following Companies. Trinity [...]
3 Hour FOI Workshop, 09/11/15, 13:00 – 16:00
On the 09/11/15, Sid Ryan of The Centre for Investigative Journalism see: http://tcij.org/content/sid-ryan , will be running a 3 hour course on Information Law Access [...]
SDC’s Facebook Page
Just 12 days ago The Independent ran a piece about how Paedophiles steal over half their images from sites like Facebook. The author of the report Mr MacGibbon, [...]
Councillor Rory Love
Councillor Rory Love lives at 89 Harbour Way, Folkestone, Kent. CT20 1LZ. He is the Conservative Councillor for Sandgate and West Folkestone Ward. It is one and half [...]
Facebook Right or Wrong 3
So there we have it. Data protection, once the preserve of tragic anoraks with too much time on their hands, has now firmly taken up its place as a glittering star within the [...]
SDC Cllrs Expenses Investigation 2
We’ve got a question for you. If you were an employer and you discovered an employee was possibly fiddling his expenses and had been doing so for a year, and their was [...]
Abuse of Power and SDC HR
The Shepwayvox team have discovered that SDC has been snooping into one of our members. They have been looking at our one of our members LinkedIn pages, Facebook page and [...]
Who is Shepwayvox?
Who is ShepwayVox, well it is . . . No seriously, Shepwayvox is not one person, we are a group of like minded individuals from all walks of life, who wish to hold power to [...]
SDC Cllrs Expenses Investigation
An ongoing investigation into two Cllrs expenses claims is afoot. SDC Cllr Peter Simmons [New Romney] Below and Former SDC Councillor Russell Tillson [Dymchurch] Below are [...]
Council Tax & Bailiffs
The Pony express has just arrived. It brings gifts from my two trusted elfs who undertook their arduous tasks at the Council Chamber last night[30/09/15] with courage and [...]
Terms and Conditions: Who reads them?
I’ve been reading online small print so you don’t have to – but you need to know how much information you’re giving away. We live in a time of terms and [...]
Facebook & What it Collects about YOU.
The standard stuff you provide them… Name City of birth City of residence Phone Email Current employment Previous employment Relationship Anniversary Previous relationships [...]
Shepway Bonds, a Good Idea?
There are no legal constraints on local authorities raising bonds, but it has not been encouraged by governments since the 1980s. However this changed when an important [...]