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Folkestone & Hythe District Council in Breach of Transparency Laws Over Procurement Card Spending

June 17, 2025 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is in hot water — or perhaps melted gelato — after failing to publish Government Procurement Card (GPC) transaction since Nov [...]

KCC Elections Part 1: The Care of Children and Young Adults

March 15, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council (KCC), like all local authorities in England, has a weighty responsibility: to care for children and young adults. Under the Children Act 1989, KCC is [...]

Part 2: Are they so different?

August 30, 2023 // 4 Comments

Last year, we as a team reminded the Council time and again about their failure to publish the Procurement card transactions data. Eventually after much huffing and puffing, [...]

Part 2: Will it be a case of third time lucky for the Council’s procurement card data?

June 24, 2023 // 0 Comments

So first the good news. After eight years and six months the Council have finally published all their procurement card data. This has been a statutory requirement since Oct [...]

More financial and contract irregularities at Folkestone & Hythe District Council

June 3, 2023 // 2 Comments

No matter how many times we write about financial and contract irregularities, Folkestone & Hythe District Council never seem to learn. As you may or many not know, the [...]

Solutions for Air Pollution

May 1, 2023 // 1 Comment

Air pollution is anything that makes the air more toxic and damaging to our health. Air pollution can affect all parts of our bodies, including the health of our lungs, [...]

Community Organsiation Cllr Ward Grant analysis 2014/15 to 2022/23

February 19, 2023 // 1 Comment

Following on from our Community Groups – Grab the Cash blog, we’ve continued to dive into this pool of data, provided exclusively & publicly by Folkestone [...]

Another hat trick of incompetence by Folkestone & Hythe DC.

February 6, 2023 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Council Procurement Card Data: Fcuking Dangerous

November 17, 2022 // 8 Comments

On Nov 11, when the Council took down the 2019/20, Procurement Card Transaction Data (read credit card data), from their website with no explanation, it naturally created the [...]

Procurement Card Data 2019/20: Planes, Trains & Automobiles

November 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

How! Just how is it possible they don’t understand when the language is so clear and concise? Are they being deliberately obtuse? The Local Government Transparency Code [...]

A vanishing contract and more data manipulation by Folkestone & Hythe District Council

September 3, 2022 // 3 Comments

Vanish is something you use on clothes. It is not something you expect to be used on the Council’s contract register. But that is precisely what has happened How do you [...]

Council Procurement Card data: Ties for funerals & £157 of bacon & sausage butties and much much more

July 28, 2022 // 1 Comment

Two years worth of the possible eight years worth, of the Council’s procurement card data (CPCD), has been published with “errors”. The data is missing [...]

Council release two years worth of procurement card data, just six years left to publish

July 27, 2022 // 2 Comments

Finally after eight years, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have released two years worth of their procurement card data. There is still another six years worth to [...]

One in three calls go unanswered and Information requests haven’t met targets for last five years

July 21, 2022 // 3 Comments

Yesterday at Cabinet, Cllr Lesley Whybrow (Green) & Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) both raised the issue around the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the council not [...]

Council’s Corporate Retention Schedule is just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

June 21, 2021 // 1 Comment

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and none of this blah means anything, or if it does, it contradicts any other blah, blah, blah, blah, blah Folkestone & Hythe District [...]

The Council’s Facebook Page – some questions for them

December 13, 2020 // 4 Comments

For some time now we have wondered how Folkestone & Hythe District Council complies with data protection law when operating its Facebook page. It’s not a challenge [...]

Digital Judas betrays us all

November 29, 2020 // 1 Comment

Mobile phones, long a tool of liberation, have now become a digital Judas, regardless who we are, or where we are from. Mobile phones have helped tens of thousands of [...]

Yet another data Data Breach by the Council

October 28, 2020 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have suffered another data breach via their YouTube Channel The Cabinet member responsible for: Information technology, information [...]

EKH spend £3.7 million on Temporary Staff and 146 Gas Safety Checks Outstanding

July 24, 2020 // 1 Comment

Updated: 9.30am 24/04/20 On the 27th May, Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet met over Zoom to discuss Report Number:C/20/06, the East Kent Housing (EKH) Single [...]

East Kent Housing “run on servers and software which are NOT compliant with the most basic data safety standards”

May 31, 2020 // 1 Comment

“As I understand it East Kent Housing (EKH) is being run from an unsupported two versions owned, obsolete version of Northgate software which is hosted on servers which [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s website does not adhere to GDPR on consent

February 8, 2020 // 2 Comments

It doesn’t surprise us, and by now it should NOT surprise you either. An investigation by the BBC Shared Data Unit proves beyond all reasonable doubt that Folkestone [...]

Local Elections May 2nd 2019: Transparency Matters

April 28, 2019 // 4 Comments

Transparency and the willingness to be completely open with you the residents of our district, is a state of mind, I believe. And the current elected mindset who control [...]

Another significant data breach by Folkestone & Hythe District Council.

April 11, 2019 // 2 Comments

“I’m busy. I’m in a meeting” were the words of the monitoring officer and Solicitor to Folkestone & Hythe District Council, (FHDC), Amandeep [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council: a breach of trust

April 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

We are handing over more of our personal data than ever before to Folkestone & Hythe District Council in exchange for more efficient and better targeted services. As part [...]

East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust performing miracles

March 10, 2019 // 1 Comment

The last time a member of the Shepwayvox Team saw his great-aunt Joanna she was propped up by many pillows and lying in a hospital bed with a tube protruding from her nose. [...]

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