Charlotte Spendley

Council failing to publish the notice explaining why the audited accounts for 2021/22 have not been published

December 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

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

November 30, 2022 // 1 Comment

A damning report released today, by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, show that procurement management and contract standing orders (CSO) have been significantly [...]

Exodus from Council Finance Department

November 3, 2022 // 2 Comments

Exodus (noun) = a lot of people leave that place at the same time. She is the second most senior finance officer at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, yet her job [...]

Inflation & Interest Rates have profound knock on effects to Princes Parade & Otterpool Park

October 21, 2022 // 1 Comment

For anybody who has been living on another planet, it is clear the recent events at national level have had a major impact on the lives of individuals, companies and local [...]

Yet More Contract Irregularities at Folkestone & Hythe District Council

October 17, 2022 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

Holidays & Hypocrisy

October 4, 2022 // 2 Comments

On the 1 August 2022, the public were supposed to have been allowed to inspect Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s accounts, as per s26 of the Local Audit & [...]

Part 2: Your Rights to Inspect the Council’s Accounts

September 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

Following on from Part 1 yesterday, if after inspecting the accounts and asking questions you are concerned about something in the accounts, you may wish to object to the [...]

Council reluctant to place reports about financial and contract irregularities into the public domain.

September 22, 2022 // 5 Comments

Updated 26/10/22 @19:30 Sometimes, just sometimes, we do feel for Cllrs who try their best, but find themselves unsupported by other Cllrs who sit on the same committee. [...]

A witchhunt, a c*ck up, and an unofficial “reward scheme”

September 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

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

September 7, 2022 // 3 Comments

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 [...]

And yet more contract irregularities at our Council

August 24, 2022 // 2 Comments

And yet again it happens. Three further contracts have been let which are in clear breach of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Contract Standing Orders (CSOs). [...]

Are Folkestone & Hythe District Council cooking the books?

August 1, 2022 // 2 Comments

It’s a first, and not one Folkestone & Hythe District Council should be proud of at all. For the first time in the history of our Council, they have failed to [...]

Council balls up their recently published procurement card data.

July 27, 2022 // 3 Comments

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 [...]

Six weeks on where’s the eight years of council procurement card data?

July 18, 2022 // 2 Comments

Back in March of this year, Internal Audit in it’s quarterly report (see page 8) made it clear there were twenty four active procurement cards [read credit card] issued [...]

Four council Officers suspended due to financial and contractual irregularities.

June 29, 2022 // 6 Comments

Exclusive: The Shepway Vox Team can announce that four council officers at Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been suspended due to contract and financial [...]

Another financial irregularity at the council

June 19, 2022 // 2 Comments

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

June 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

‘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

June 10, 2022 // 7 Comments

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 [...]

Council publicly admit two investigations into contractual and financial irregularities

June 8, 2022 // 8 Comments

Updated 09.06.22 @09:28am Charlotte Spendley (pictured), Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s s151 Officer (the council officer with statutory responsibility for [...]

Two QCs say report must be issued over unlawful expenditure of Premier Roofing & Clifford Carpentry and Interior contracts

May 31, 2022 // 7 Comments

Following on from our last post, Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council? we sought the legal opinions [...]

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