LBWF Director of Governance and Law Mark Hynes lands a plum job on the side, but then ‘unforeseen circumstances’ spoil his Christmas, leaving the Town Hall hierarchy with questions to answer
Reports reach this blog of a new and arresting episode in the life and times of our old friend, LBWF Director of Governance and Law Mark Hynes. The gist is as follows. In the past few years, Thanet District Council (TDC), which provides services to 140,000 people living in the Margate, Ramsgate, and Broadstairs area, has descended into chaos, said to stem from a near complete failure of governance. Indeed, the situation was so bad earlier this year, that the TDC auditors, Grant Thornton, stepped in, and using powers granted to it under the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, investigated the scale and nature of the crisis, and made a series of recommendations. On the crisis itself,... »