s151 officer

Council Progress Report: Folca, Coast Drive Beach Huts, Waste Water Works, and Road of Remembrance Make Strides

March 26, 2025 // 0 Comments

At the Full Council meeting of Folkestone & Hythe District Council on 2 April 2025, Cabinet Members will update Cllrs on progress made since the 26 Feb. The progress [...]

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 Interim s151 Officer earning £721 per day.

November 7, 2024 // 3 Comments

A long time ago, but not in Bethlehem, or a galaxy far far away, Folkestone & Hythe District Council were seeking an interim s151 officer. This was set out in report [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Princes Parade: Financial mismanagement of Faithful & Gould contract

February 28, 2023 // 5 Comments

Updated 6 March @ 07:40am According to the Council’s procurement guide under Value for Money it states: Value for money is a balance of quality, price and delivery and [...]

Princes Parade Update: Possible solutions to discover the lost £5m.

February 20, 2023 // 1 Comment

Updated 6 March @ 07:55am How does Folkestone & Hythe District Council lose £5m on Princes Parade? Cllr Jim Martin doesn’t know, nor does Cllr Lesley Whybrow. Cllr [...]

Interim Chief Finance Officer likely to cost minimum of £104,000

February 3, 2023 // 1 Comment

According to Cllr Jackie Meade‘s quick back of the fag packet calculation, at the Personnel Committee on the 2 Feb, an interim s151 officer was £100,000. A s151 [...]

Council’s accounts: Another hat trick of irregularities

January 28, 2023 // 3 Comments

How many times does it take Folkestone & Hythe District Council to produce a draft set of accounts for publication, for the financial year 2021/22? No it’s not a [...]

Council’s accounts “are nothing short of a dog’s breakfast”

January 27, 2023 // 1 Comment

“They are nothing short of a dog’s breakfast” says Chris a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), “and [...]

Council’s Chief Finance Officer is leaving the building

January 14, 2023 // 4 Comments

Charlotte Spendley the Chief Finance Officer (s151 Officer) at Folkestone & Hythe District Council is leaving the building sometime in the near future. Did she jump, or [...]

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 [...]

Exodus from Council Finance Department

November 3, 2022 // 2 Comments

Exodus (noun) = a lot of people leave that place at the same time. She is the second most senior finance officer at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, yet her job [...]

Yet More Contract Irregularities at Folkestone & Hythe District Council

October 17, 2022 // 2 Comments

Once again, there are issues with Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Contracts Register (17/10/22) (Quelle surprise). The Council’s Constitution at Part 10 [...]

More Financial Irregularities at the Council

October 1, 2022 // 3 Comments

It took two hours and four minutes before Cllr Lesley Whybrow (Green) Cabinet Member for the Environment pointed out that the s151 Officer, – Charlotte Spendley [...]

Part 2: Your Rights to Inspect the Council’s Accounts

September 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

Following on from Part 1 yesterday, if after inspecting the accounts and asking questions you are concerned about something in the accounts, you may wish to object to the [...]

Council reluctant to place reports about financial and contract irregularities into the public domain.

September 22, 2022 // 5 Comments

Updated 26/10/22 @19:30 Sometimes, just sometimes, we do feel for Cllrs who try their best, but find themselves unsupported by other Cllrs who sit on the same committee. [...]

Kent County Council loaned £20m to authority now under investigation due to ‘exceptional’ debt

September 12, 2022 // 1 Comment

During the financial year 1 Apr 2021 & 31 Mar 2022, Kent County Council (KCC) lent £20m to Thurrock Council which is now under investigation due to its “exceptional [...]

Council whistleblower vindicated over contract irregularities

September 7, 2022 // 3 Comments

In a guest post back in June 2022, a Council Officer whistleblower claimed there was a lack of governance and internal controls within Folkestone & Hythe District [...]

Are Folkestone & Hythe District Council cooking the books?

August 1, 2022 // 2 Comments

It’s a first, and not one Folkestone & Hythe District Council should be proud of at all. For the first time in the history of our Council, they have failed to [...]

Four council Officers suspended due to financial and contractual irregularities.

June 29, 2022 // 6 Comments

Exclusive: The Shepway Vox Team can announce that four council officers at Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been suspended due to contract and financial [...]

Two QCs say report must be issued over unlawful expenditure of Premier Roofing & Clifford Carpentry and Interior contracts

May 31, 2022 // 7 Comments

Following on from our last post, Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council? we sought the legal opinions [...]

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