Charlotte Spendley

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 // 9 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 [...]

Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council?

May 28, 2022 // 4 Comments

Each year the Chairman of Folkestone & Hythe District Council Audit & Governance Committee (A&GC), must respond to the external auditors letter which asks: [...]

More financial irregularities at Folkestone & Hythe District Council

May 22, 2022 // 6 Comments

What is £5,553.96 + £0? The answer according to Folkestone & Hythe District Council is £5,811.96. What is £5,553.96 + £258? The answer is according to Folkestone [...]

Council hiding seven years worth of credit card financial payments.

May 19, 2022 // 4 Comments

Seven years Folkestone & Hythe District Council have hidden, and failed to publish financial data for their Government Procurement Cards (read credit card), in clear [...]

Who are you?

April 8, 2022 // 2 Comments

Updated 10.04.22 @16:20 Faceless and nameless they are. We don’t know what position they held at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, but we do know that in [...]

Council accidentally release Covid Grant data

September 17, 2021 // 4 Comments

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 [...]

Council restricting access rights of all residents to inspect their accounts.

July 7, 2021 // 1 Comment

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.

June 27, 2021 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors breach data protection law again

June 23, 2021 // 4 Comments

We’ll not beat about the bush and come straight to the point. Since the Waste Collection contract fiasco, many of you have contacted us regarding your Cllrs and their [...]

Dr Susan Priest Chief Exec of FHDC fails to land top KCC job

June 17, 2021 // 3 Comments

Dr Susan Priest became Head of Paid Service of Folkestone & Hythe District Council as of April 1st 2018, beating the s151 officer Tim Madden to the job. She later [...]

Cllrs go missing in action

May 28, 2021 // 2 Comments

What a waste! In the last two years there have not been many opportunities for opposition members to land any significant blows on the Tory led coalition at Folkestone & [...]

Council misled auditor, but will they snitch on them to the appropriate regulator?

May 23, 2021 // 5 Comments

On the 22nd March 2021, the external auditor of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s accounts – Grant Thornton – sent a letter to the Chair of the [...]

So, Where’s The Money Gone?

August 7, 2020 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

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