Council owned assets have magically vanished
Surprised No. Disappointed yes. Millions of pounds worth of assets owned by Folkestone & Hythe District Council have vanished. Each year the Council must update its [...]
Transparency Code 2015
£750,000 of Contract Irregularities at Folkestone & Hythe District Council
Before we move forward we must go back almost a year. If one casts one’s mind back to Report Number AuG/22/21; which went before the Audit & Governance Committee [...]
Council withdraw car parking charging proposals for Folkestone, Sandgate, Hythe & New Romney High Streets.
Parking in our district is currently in the headlines. But something most of you didn’t know, and don’t know, is the Council is yet again in breach of the law and [...]
Part 2: Are they so different?
Last year, we as a team reminded the Council time and again about their failure to publish the Procurement card transactions data. Eventually after much huffing and puffing, [...]
Part 2: Will it be a case of third time lucky for the Council’s procurement card data?
So first the good news. After eight years and six months the Council have finally published all their procurement card data. This has been a statutory requirement since Oct [...]
KCC Commercial Services company start £2.2 billion of contracts before they were awarded
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 [...]
£61m of contracts across eight Kent councils started before they were awarded
An analysis of eight out of twelve Kent Council’s shows that £61,317,807 worth of contracts were started before they were awarded, according to publicly available [...]
Solutions to protect your public pound.
£71,422 does not appear on either of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s published purchase order data, or its payment to supplier data, for just one contractor. [...]
Procurement Card Data: The Council make themselves look worse than muppets
They make themselves look worse than muppets, much worse, when there is no need. The way they have treated their procurement card data is nothing short of shocking, well [...]
A witchhunt, a c*ck up, and an unofficial “reward scheme”
Updated – 13/09/22 @17:43 For starters we’ll serve up the c*ck up salad; followed by the main dish the reward scheme roast; and for deseret, a delightful witch [...]
Council whistleblower vindicated over contract irregularities
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 the Council utterly incompetent, or are they now acting criminally?
Are a bunch of criminals running the council? Or are they just so incompetent that it looks like criminal behaviour? After all it was a senior Kent Police Officer who [...]
Council hiding seven years worth of credit card financial payments.
Seven years Folkestone & Hythe District Council have hidden, and failed to publish financial data for their Government Procurement Cards (read credit card), in clear [...]