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FOI Discrepancies Throw Folkestone & Hythe District Council Temporary Accommodation Costs Into Doubt

August 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) has once again managed the impossible: spending millions of pounds on Temporary Accommodation without actually knowing how much [...]

A Dog’s Breakfast of Data: Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s FOI Figures Go Walkies

June 28, 2025 // 1 Comment

Dog mess is one of the most frequent and fragrant grievances in local government. In Folkestone & Hythe, it’s been cited hundreds of times in complaints, council [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Caught in FOI Scandal Over Unsafe Housing Enforcement Data

June 26, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is facing a growing credibility crisis after a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) disclosures reveal it cannot provide consistent [...]

Two Answers, One Truth: FOI Scandal Exposes KCC and Folkestone & Hythe DC

June 22, 2025 // 0 Comments

When people ask how public money is spent, they deserve a straight answer. That is the promise of the Freedom of Information Act. But when councils give different answers to [...]

Exclusive: Kent County Council Spends £1.1 Billion Fighting SEND Appeals — 84% of Annual Budget

June 20, 2025 // 3 Comments

Exclusive: Kent County Council (KCC) has admitted to spending over £1.1 billion in legal costs defending Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) tribunal appeals [...]

Serious Discrepancies Found in Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Temporary Accommodation Costs

May 13, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is facing serious questions over the reliability and consistency of its published data on Temporary Accommodation (TA) costs, after a [...]

Princes Parade: What did they know and when did they know it?

February 10, 2024 // 2 Comments

What did they know and when did they know it? It turns out Folkestone & Hythe District Council knew quite a lot. They withheld it from Cllrs and residents alike. This is [...]

Part 2: The gift which keeps on giving

December 27, 2022 // 3 Comments

There are those who believe BS baffles brains. But when dealing with a qualified FoI practitioner, such as our public face, one knows when one is being feed BS by our [...]

Part 3: KCC Special Education Needs spreading misinformation

August 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

They do make one laugh especially when they provide false information, but hey this is the modern age of misinformation and Kent County Council (KCC) want to be in on the act [...]

How to shoot yourself in the foot.

September 22, 2021 // 2 Comments

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA), is a simple piece of legislation. Pretty much anybody can make a request for information to a public authority under the FoIA [...]

Nine Kent Councils collect £3.5 million in Penalty Charge Notices

January 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

Between August 2019 and July 2020, according to data collected through Freedom of Information (FoI) requests by Compare the Market, Medway Council has issued the most Penalty [...]

‘Should’ve gone to Specsavers’

January 5, 2021 // 3 Comments

The Local Government Transparency Code sets out the minimum data that Folkestone & Hythe District Council should be publishing, the frequency it should be published and [...]

Are 16 Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors abusing their position?

October 26, 2019 // 5 Comments

Could you be persuaded there is a legitimate interest, and it is in the public interest, or any value to the public or any section of the public, for Folkestone & Hythe [...]

All 4 East Kent Councils paid P & R for fraudulent Gas Safety Certificates

June 28, 2019 // 2 Comments

Yesterday -27th June 2019 Dover District Council Governance Committee met and part of the agenda pack at pages 18 and 19 states: Discussions were started with the contractor [...]

Official Diaries Part 2: East Kent Hospital Trust says yes. Folkestone & Hythe DC says no.

February 4, 2019 // 1 Comment

East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) have released Susan Acott’s , the Chief Executive’s diary. It is not as open as Cllr Paul [...]

Peter Principle alive & well at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust

November 17, 2018 // 3 Comments

The Peter principle is alive and well at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust. If for one moment one believes that the proposal for a new Hospital at [...]

The Council “neither confirms nor Denies” the Allegations of sexual harassment/misconduct leading to Settlement Agreements.

June 8, 2018 // 4 Comments

Back in Sept 2017 we brought you the post about Jeremy Chambers (pictured) being dismissed for Gross Misconduct. The allegations were that Jeremy was placed on gardening [...]

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