Council accidentally release Covid Grant data
Curiosity killed the cat – Anon Honestly you would have thought they’d learnt by now, but no. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have committed another faux [...]
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What a bunch of Morons
What a bunch of overpaid morons we have at Kent County Council. Under the Local Audit & Accountability Act 2014 (LAAA 2014) any resident of Kent or journalist can [...]
Council restricting access rights of all residents to inspect their accounts.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council , like all other councils must open their annual accounts to allow the public to inspect them. Unfortunately, our Council are not [...]
Council misleading residents about Cllrs allowances and expenses again.
On June the 12th we published the allowances of all Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs for the financial year 2020/21. The Council are omitting the fact, that three Cllrs [...]
The kitchen may be silent but the books are getting cooked
For an accounting sleight of hand that elevates end-of-year accounts into a Booker Prize contender for fiction, look no further than those filed by Hallam Estates Ltd at [...]
Council’s auditor Grant Thornton declare P & R contract was NOT value for money
After fourteen months the auditor of Folkestone & Hythe District Council accounts – Grant Thornton (GT) – has finally stated that the former gas contract [...]
Part 1: Are Kent County Council Finances in Safe Hands?
Zena Cooke (pictured) is probably a woman you have never heard of. There is no need for you to have ever heard of her. She is Kent County Council’s (KCC) Director of [...]
So, Where’s The Money Gone?
So, where’s the money? The financial data below has all come from Folkestone & Hythe District Council. It excludes VAT. It is the Temporary staff costs data from [...]
C**k up, Conspiracy or Incompetence?
So is it a cock up, conspiracy or incompetence? We simply do not know, but we’ll let you judge from the evidence we put before you. All the evidence is in the public [...]
There is the right way and there is the FHDC way.
We used to say there is “the right way and there is the Shepway. Of course, that has now morphed into there is right way and there is the Folkestone & Hythe [...]
The Long Read: Otterpool Park -update.
So what do you get for £281,230,000 or two hundred and eighty one million two hundred a thirty thousand pounds? Well, according to Kent County Council’s ( KCC) [...]
Where’s The Money?
Each month Shepway District Council (SDC) publish their payment to supplier data. Below is a graph which shows £28 million of SDC’s spend data for 2015/16. In [...]
SDC Employees and their Pensions
The Times has reported this morning [01/09/15] (paywall) that: The legal cornerstone underpinning the entire edifice of bank accounting is defective, according to a QC’s [...]
SDC Contracts Register
Like all council’s Shepway District Council has a Contracts register, so that they do not lose track of them. The Contracts Register currently shows that SDC has 141 [...]
Not a lot of people know that
Attached at 1,2,3, are copies of Shepway District Council’s Investments held in instant access deposit accounts from1/04/14 – 31/03/15 including interest rates [...]
Anomalies in SDC Accounts
As of this morning – 10/08/15 – the have made a complaint to both the Head of Finance of Shepway District Council [SDC] and the Auditor – Grant Thornton [...]
Shepway District Council Debt Levels
As of the 31st March 2015 Shepway District Council had debt levels of sixty two million, three hundred thousand pounds (62.3m). While discussing the accounts during the 20 [...]