Data

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. [...]

A bunch of muppets, dodgy data, & Pensand House & Marlborough Court.

November 4, 2018 // 2 Comments

One lunch time last week 29th Oct – 2nd Nov, I received an email. I opened it and read it and to my surprise found myself laughing at its contents. The email only [...]

Part 2: P & R Installation Company Ltd

June 30, 2018 // 2 Comments

A month ago we brought you a Long Read blog about P & R and how badly they were performing in relation to the £27 milllion pound central heating, emergency 24/7 gas and [...]

The Long Read: Kent Police can extract mobile phone data without your knowledge, your consent or a warrant.

June 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

How important is your mobile phone to you? How important is the data on your phone? If your phone could talk what wouldn’t you want it to say about you? What about the [...]

The Lion Which Never Roared

December 19, 2017 // 3 Comments

Between April – June 17, One in Five calls from the public went unanswered by Shepway District Council (SDC). In other words 20% of SDC’s customers were not [...]

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