Dr Susan Priest

Temporary staff spend in first quarter of 2023/24 is nearly half a million.

August 9, 2023 // 7 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent an nearly half a million pounds on temporary staff in the first quarter of the financial year 2023/24. According to their [...]

Waiving hello to £80,000 while not serving up the accounts on time.

August 3, 2023 // 1 Comment

For the second year in a row, Folkestone & Hythe District Council, have failed to publish their draft statement of accounts on time. They failed to meet the statutory [...]

More financial irregularities?

July 16, 2023 // 6 Comments

Recently we asked the question about the contract issued to Jenner (Contractors) Ltd by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, regarding Ross House. Ross House: Is this [...]

Council’s internal audits show things are getting worse.

July 13, 2023 // 3 Comments

Evidence has emerged over time that Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s internal controls have gone from good to bad. Each year an annual internal report is [...]

Part 2 Ross House: Is this another dodgy £1m contract?

June 26, 2023 // 2 Comments

Ever since the Council bought Ross House for £1.8m, in April 2018, it has eaten money and had so many issues, the 16 flats inside the building are now probably the most [...]

Integrity of Council’s procurement card data in serious doubt.

June 20, 2023 // 11 Comments

Exclusive We have long doubted the integrity of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s data they publish. In the last few days the Council have published all the [...]

Part 42: More financial and contract irregularities

June 17, 2023 // 4 Comments

It looks like a harmless contract at first sight. Awarded on the 14/12/2020, it began on the 04/01/2021, and was due to end on the 07/05/2021. There were no extensions to the [...]

Cllrs receive one and a quarter million in allowances and expenses in last four years.

June 9, 2023 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has thirty councillors. As councilors they receive an allowance – plus expenses. They do not receive a wage. All payments made [...]

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 [...]

Evidence emerges of non-fire compliant doors in Folkestone & Hythe DC social housing

May 23, 2023 // 2 Comments

More than a 100 fire doors in properties owned by Folkestone & Hythe District Council from Lydd to Lyminge are non compliant according to a fire safety expert of more [...]

Cllr assisgned to wrong ward and other c*ck ups by the Council.

May 19, 2023 // 2 Comments

Honestly we are NOT making it up. We don’t need to when Folkestone & Hythe District Council are around as they are the gift which keeps giving. For those of you [...]

Council temporary staff costs rise to £1.6m and sets new all-time record

May 12, 2023 // 1 Comment

It’s a new record and by some margin. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £1,664,639 on temporary staff between April 22 and Mar 23. We predicted back in [...]

Facts and Solutions to help small and start up businesses in our district.

April 7, 2023 // 4 Comments

We need a thriving district. We need a business friendly environment. We need to help businesses come here, and local start up businesses to thrive here. We need to help them [...]

Part 2: Council invoiced for £4m with no contract in place

April 3, 2023 // 2 Comments

This is a guest post Yesterday, I let it be known Folkestone & Hythe District Council had made 650 retrospective purchase orders (RPO) in 2021/22, with a total value of [...]

Oportunitas update: True & Fair Bulls**t

March 27, 2023 // 5 Comments

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 [...]

Unaddressed systemic issues are holding back Council’s development

March 21, 2023 // 5 Comments

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 [...]

Curiouser and curiouser!

March 18, 2023 // 6 Comments

Well things are turning stranger by the minute. With regards to the Hythe West by-election, which we wrote about on the 3 March 2023, raising the issues of missing votes, and [...]

Council set new record on temporary staff costs

March 14, 2023 // 1 Comment

It’s a new record and yes they’re record breakers. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £1,364,558 on temporary staff between April 22 and Jan [...]

Something doesn’t add up about the Hythe West By-election

March 3, 2023 // 2 Comments

Congratulations to Cllr Jenni Hawkins (Green) (pictured) for winning the local by-election for the Kent County Council – Hythe West Division The Conservative candidate [...]

Part 42: Princes Parade – further evidence of incompetence by Council

February 6, 2023 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

Bruising reports remind Council’s Statutory Officers of contract & financial irregularities as a major issue as council face £18.5m deficit

December 8, 2022 // 3 Comments

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 [...]

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