Oportunitas update: True & Fair Bulls**t
Updated 28 March @ 11:05am How, how could this happen? How can the directors of Oportunitas be employees of the Council, and be elected Cllrs, when that’s not [...]
Amandeep Khroud
Unaddressed systemic issues are holding back Council’s development
This is a guest post I am a Folkestone & Hythe District Council Officer. What is written here is a distallation of my own and other colleagues opinions. All opinion [...]
Just for the record
This is a guest post For the record and for clarity, my name is Bryan Rylands (pictured). I am the public face of The Shepway Vox Team. I am one of nine members of the [...]
Incompetence: Power without accountablity
Purchase Orders (POs) are either the prevention of all evil, or the creation of all evil in local government, and elsewhere. At Folkestone & Hythe District Council, they [...]
Part 42: Princes Parade – further evidence of incompetence by Council
It never rains around here it just comes pouring down, says Mark Knopfler on the song It Never Rains, from the Love Over Gold album. And after today’s installment of a [...]
Another hat trick of incompetence by Folkestone & Hythe DC.
No matter what one does, the same basic mistakes are being made time and again at Folkestone & Hythe District Council. And the Council have scored another hat trick of of [...]
Princes Parade: A hat trick of contract irregularities
One has to hand it to Folkestone & Hythe District Council. They have single handedly awarded three contracts to companies who were working on Princes Parade, six months [...]
Bruising reports remind Council’s Statutory Officers of contract & financial irregularities as a major issue as council face £18.5m deficit
They are without doubt, three remarkable, wise women. Each is able, each is a professional, and each is full of “intent, a clear intent” to instill compliance of [...]
Finally, the Council comply with the law
Better late than never is what they say! Finally, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have complied with the law, two days late, but as we said better late than never. [...]
Council failing to publish the notice explaining why the audited accounts for 2021/22 have not been published
Folkestone & Hythe District Council are in breach of the law again, but neither of the two statutory officers, Charlotte Spendley -s151 officer, responsible for the money [...]
£1,452,646 spent on suppliers without a compliant contract
A damning report released today, by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, show that procurement management and contract standing orders (CSO) have been significantly [...]
Yet More Contract Irregularities at Folkestone & Hythe District Council
Once again, there are issues with Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Contracts Register (17/10/22) (Quelle surprise). The Council’s Constitution at Part 10 [...]
More Financial Irregularities at the Council
It took two hours and four minutes before Cllr Lesley Whybrow (Green) Cabinet Member for the Environment pointed out that the s151 Officer, – Charlotte Spendley [...]
A witchhunt, a c*ck up, and an unofficial “reward scheme”
Updated – 13/09/22 @17:43 For starters we’ll serve up the c*ck up salad; followed by the main dish the reward scheme roast; and for deseret, a delightful witch [...]
Council whistleblower vindicated over contract irregularities
In a guest post back in June 2022, a Council Officer whistleblower claimed there was a lack of governance and internal controls within Folkestone & Hythe District [...]
Part 2: Are the Council cooking the books?
Recently we asked the question: Are Folkestone & Hythe District Council cooking the books? We asked this knowing they do not have the process or procedure within their [...]
Council are acting beyond its powers by giving £16m plus to the two companies it owns
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have acted beyond their powers (ultra vires) by allowing in excess of £16 million to be paid to companies in which they allege they [...]
Revealed: More than 500 contracts not on council’s contract register in a blow to transparency
On the 10 June a whistleblower claimed there was a lack of governance and internal controls within Folkestone & Hythe District Council. They made it clear there was [...]
Council balls up their recently published procurement card data.
You won’t believe it, but perhaps you will, as this is Folkestone & Hythe District Council we’re talking about after all. The two years worth of procurement [...]
Another financial irregularity at the council
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s constitution describes how they operate, makes sure they perform well, and are transparent. The constitution is the [...]
£658,771 of contract irregularities on just three contracts
‘Fraud‘ says The local government transparency code 2015 (the Code), ‘can thrive where decisions are not open to scrutiny and details of spending, contracts [...]
Whistleblower claims lack of governance and internal controls at FHDC
This is a guest post “I am a senior council officer at Folkestone & Hythe District Council. I am publicly blowing the whistle to the Shepway Vox Team for reasons [...]
Two QCs say report must be issued over unlawful expenditure of Premier Roofing & Clifford Carpentry and Interior contracts
Following on from our last post, Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council? we sought the legal opinions [...]
Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council?
Each year the Chairman of Folkestone & Hythe District Council Audit & Governance Committee (A&GC), must respond to the external auditors letter which asks: [...]
Are Cllrs Monk, Field & the monitoring officer Amandeep Khroud acting with honesty & integrity?
On the 19th Nov 2021, we brought you the post: Cllr David Monk has a new occupation In the post we pointed out that Cllr David Drury Monk was a director in K B Occupational [...]