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Princes Parade Write-Off and Oportunitas Valuation Error: Audit Scrutiny Intensifies as Folkestone & Hythe Audit & Governance Meeting Is Postponed

December 16, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Audit & Governance Committee was due to meet tomorrow evening (Wednesday 17 December, 6pm) to scrutinise the 2024/25 Statement [...]

Grant Thornton Audit Fees Tripled Across 12 Kent Councils

September 11, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent’s 12 district councils are grappling with a dramatic rise in the cost of their annual audits, as new data reveals fees tripled between 2022/23 and 2023/24. The [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Spent £3.1 Million Outside Contract Rules, Records Reveal

August 6, 2025 // 2 Comments

Calls are mounting for Grant Thornton the external auditors to intervene at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, after new evidence emerged of more than £3.1 million in [...]

Kent County Council Paid Out £10.7 Million in Secret Exit Deals — But Only Reported £3.65 Million

July 21, 2025 // 0 Comments

In an era defined by rising council tax, stretched services, and mounting pressure on frontline care, Kent County Council (KCC) has managed to lose sight of something rather [...]

Princes Parade: A Financial Dunkirk Of His Own Making!

March 19, 2025 // 0 Comments

The air in the Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s chamber was thick—thicker than the Channel’s infamous fog, a suffocating mix of bureaucratic inertia, impending [...]

Where’s the £6m of exit package money gone?

January 12, 2025 // 0 Comments

The financial exit package data paid to employees leaving any of the Councils in Kent, including Medway, over the last three years, is wrong by more than £6m. Each year in [...]

Council misleading residents over financial exit packages by £323,000

December 4, 2024 // 1 Comment

Updated 4 Dec 2024 @ 15:03 Of course you’d believe it when we say Folkestone & Hythe District Council misleads you, wouldn’t you… Each year, the [...]

Council debt repayments soar by 59% in single year.

June 7, 2024 // 4 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council debt repayments increased by 59% between 2021/22 and 2022/23. At of March 31, 2023 the total debt repayment stood at £3.263m. The [...]

Council fail to publish accounts on time for third year in a row.

June 1, 2024 // 1 Comment

For the third financial year in a row, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have failed to published their draft statement of accounts (DSoA) by the deadline of the 31 [...]

Council Accounts 2022/23 – Another dog’s breakfast?

March 15, 2024 // 1 Comment

On the 1 June 2023, we informed you that Folkestone & Hythe District Council had failed to publish their draft statement of accounts, for 2022/23, by the statutory [...]

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 [...]

Part 3: Kent County Council’s special-education system is on its knees

July 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

No-one can claim we are short of evidence that support for children with Special Education Needs & Disabilities needs a radical overhaul. It is now very clear to everyone [...]

KCC Commercial Services company start £2.2 billion of contracts before they were awarded

April 28, 2023 // 4 Comments

Kent County Council Commercial Services Group is a company you’ve probably never heard of. It is one of the largest, local authority owned, trading organisations of its [...]

Is she, or isn’t she?

March 9, 2023 // 3 Comments

“The Section 151 Officer is responsible to the Council for ensuring that appropriate advice is given on all financial matters, for keeping proper financial records and [...]

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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Grant Thornton

Princes Parade Write-Off and Oportunitas Valuation Error: Audit Scrutiny Intensifies as Folkestone & Hythe Audit & Governance Meeting Is Postponed

Grant Thornton Audit Fees Tripled Across 12 Kent Councils

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Spent £3.1 Million Outside Contract Rules, Records Reveal

Kent County Council Paid Out £10.7 Million in Secret Exit Deals — But Only Reported £3.65 Million

Princes Parade: A Financial Dunkirk Of His Own Making!

Where’s the £6m of exit package money gone?

Council misleading residents over financial exit packages by £323,000

Council debt repayments soar by 59% in single year.

Council fail to publish accounts on time for third year in a row.

Council Accounts 2022/23 – Another dog’s breakfast?

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

Part 3: Kent County Council’s special-education system is on its knees

KCC Commercial Services company start £2.2 billion of contracts before they were awarded

Is she, or isn’t she?

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

KCC close to bankruptcy while overcharging domicilary care clients

More Financial Irregularities at the Council

Unlawful behaviour by our Council further harms their reputation

Part 2: Are the Council cooking the books?

Council are acting beyond its powers by giving £16m plus to the two companies it owns

Revealed: More than 500 contracts not on council’s contract register in a blow to transparency

Council publicly admit two investigations into contractual and financial irregularities

Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council?

Princes Parade update: Costs rise 655% between 2014 and 2022

Perverse & absurd, but KCC keep paying their offshore PFI contractors