Princes Parade: What did they know and when did they know it?
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 [...]
Freedom Of Information
Council fail to give additional resources to the Information Governance & Data Protection Team
Nineteen years ago, thanks to the actions of a “naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop”, the British people acquired an important new legal right. This is how [...]
Council has cost ratepayers millions when it was not necessary
The portfolio he overseas as Cabinet Member for Transport and Digital Transformation, includes Traffic management, on and off street Parking, Information technology, Customer [...]
Part 3: KCC Special Education Needs spreading misinformation
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 [...]
Council take incompetence to a new level putting lives in serious danager
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have taken incompetence to a whole new level. In doing so they’ve placed the lives of women, children and men at significant and [...]
One in three calls go unanswered and Information requests haven’t met targets for last five years
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 [...]
How to shoot yourself in the foot.
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 [...]
Revealed: Dead people invoiced for domiciliary care and KCC refuse to release time clipping data.
Evidence has emerged that dead people are being invoiced for domiciliary care they could not have received; and persons moved to care homes are still being invoiced by [...]
Princes Parade: Power Corruption & Lies?
Folkestone & Hythe District Council led by Dr Susan Priest, are in a mess, the Veolia Waste Contract Fiasco, Broken Links preventing inspection of accounts and [...]
Senior Council Officers and Cllrs rewarded handsomely for losing public purse tens of thousands of pounds
Between them they have lost the public purse tens of thousands of pounds and failed to keep the publication scheme up to date. The publication scheme aims to make the maximum [...]
Otterpool Park Update: A consultation & a lack of transparency regarding the LLP
On Friday 26th March 2021, Otterpool Park LLP will hold two virtual public information and consultation events on phase one of Otterpool Park, which includes the town centre. [...]
Nine Kent Councils collect £3.5 million in Penalty Charge Notices
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’
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 [...]
Part 2: Plausible suspicion of wrongdoing
Folkestone & Hythe District Council on Wednesday 20th Nov are to vote on the recommendation that additional capital funding of one hundred million pounds (£100,000,000 [...]
Are 16 Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors abusing their position?
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 [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council are misleading elected Cllrs and the public.
It is not just Cllrs who believe they have been misled at the very least by Folkestone & Hythe District Council. From published evidence they are also misleading the [...]
Official Diaries Part 2: East Kent Hospital Trust says yes. Folkestone & Hythe DC says no.
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 [...]
The Grand Inferno
Forgive the classical allusion but Dante might be the name that will be taking up a lot of Michael Stainer’s time over the coming months. But he won’t be studying [...]
Fake News & A Lie By Damian Collins MP.
We asked the question earlier this month whether or not Damian Collins MP (pictured) had lied regarding the transfer of 1,500 patients to other GP Surgeries. Damian placed [...]
Do Shepway District Council Own Oportunitas Ltd? Maybe Not.
In an FOI request made by our public face to Shepway District Council (SDC), the response was a little strange. The request was simple: Please provide me with all [...]