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 [...]
PFI
Perverse & absurd, but KCC keep paying their offshore PFI contractors
Back in 2013, Peter Read, who runs the Kent Independent Education Advice website, uncovered a financial scandal relating to academies. In his article published on 22 Sept [...]
Learning from mistakes
We the Shepway Vox Team get it wrong sometimes. When we do we like to be open about our mistakes, and if necessary apologise. This is one of those ocassions where we need to [...]
Liberal Democrats forget they are responsible for residents having Highest Council Tax in Kent
So on the 24th Feb 2021, Folkestone & Hythe District Council voted to raise the district part of Council Tax by 1.99%. This means band per band our Council has the [...]
Wheelie Cllr Prater!
Updated 19:00 23/07/20 Honestly, if we replied to every Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) article, we’d get little done. Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) is claiming victory for a [...]
Grant Thornton telling lies? You decide.
Grant Thornton is under investigation for it’s audits and earlier this year the Chief Executive of Grant Thornton informed the business, energy and industrial strategy [...]
The Long Read: The Peoples’ Audit of KCC’s Accounts 16/17
The Shepwayvox team with two independent qualified CIPFA accountants, a retired PWC Auditor and a few lawyers have undertaken a Peoples’ Audit of Kent County [...]
Policy 1 – Part 2: More Debt & Some Solutions.
There are two catergories of debt, one is on book debt , this the £1 Billion we can see on KCC accounts. The second type debt is off the book debt, such as PFI. All KCC debt [...]
KCC’s 11 PFI School Contracts
Kent County Council have 14 Private Finance Intiative (PFI) Contracts on their books. 11 of them are schools. Who owns these schools, because it is not KCC, they just stump [...]