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What a week it has been! Sorry that I missed our Tea Break

Weekly waffle: Katherine Kerswell Here it is, the moment we know that many loyal readers have been waiting for – the latest missive from the desk of the council chief executive, Katherine Kerswell. Trite, banal and patronising doesn’t cover it, but we know that students of executive management techniques look forward to our re-publishing these weekly homilies, to store away as examples of bad…

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Special offer this month: free access to the Croydon Insider

The Croydon Insider, our monthly news podcast that delves behind the headlines, is available FREE to all reader this month, as a special, unrepeatable offer. Our podcast is premium content that is usually only available to paid-up subscribers, who pay just £5 per month to support Inside Croydon’s independent and investigative journalism. But for May 2024, anyone can plug in and listen, via our…

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I've been told the car park cleansing team do great work!

Have you ever wondered quite what Katherine Kerswell does for her £192,474 per year salary as the council chief executive? Vapid, patronising tripe: council CEO Katherine Kerswell’s regular email is a low-light of staff’s week It’s something that often perplexes what remains of the borough’s front-line staff… KK’s ‘duties’, such as they are, include signing off a little morale-booster of an email…

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Borough's director of public health quits her council job

Rachel Flowers, the director of public health at the cash-strapped council who helped guide the borough through the covid pandemic, is leaving her job. Time to move on: Rachel Flowers has been Croydon’s director of public health since 2016 Her boss, Katherine Kerswell, the council chief executive, made the announcement almost as an after-thought in her little weekly emailed homily sent to Croydon…

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With 48% turn out in outer London, Khan's team gets the jitters

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on Labour’s post-polling jitters and confirmation that in Croydon council by-elections, things are never done as quickly as you might hope Have you ever met a poor bookmaker? No, me neither, which is why when rumours started to swirl this afternoon that Harrow hairdresser Susan Hall, the Tories’ fringe candidate, was about to be elected as the next Mayor of…

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Council's official guide on voting in May 2's London elections

With London elections, and a couple of Croydon by-elections (in Woodside and Park Hill and Whitgift wards) being held this Thursday, May 2, the council has (belatedly) issued its own guide to how you can take part in the democratic process – including how to get a vote even if you missed the ID application deadline. PLUS: there’s our own online tool, provided by Democracy Club, to guide you to…

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This time we've got it right, council says on postal ballot forms

Croydon Council has confirmed that there has been no error in the printing of the postal vote envelopes for the London elections next month. As postal ballot papers began to arrive at voters’ homes in Croydon this week, some questioned why, in the section requiring them to provide their date of birth, the first two boxes of the year were already printed with the figures “1” and “9”, which appears…

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£603,000: the soaring costs of Croydon's 'improvement' panel

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Three years since Tony McArdle and his government-appointed team of troubleshooters were parachuted into the council, there are mounting questions about what they have achieved. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Part-timer: Tony McArdle is the £1,000-a-day government-appointed troubleshooter The Government-appointed chair of Croydon Council’s “improvement and assurance” panel, Tony…

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Council chief Kerswell has doubled up on £140,000+ executives

CROYDON IN CRISIS: While more than 400 frontline jobs have been axed since 2020, the executive suite in Fisher’s Folly has barely been touched. But the council CEO is spending even more on ‘cost-cutting’ consultants. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Empire-building: council CEO Katherine Kerswell has increased the number of exec directors Katherine Kerswell, the cash-strapped council’s £192,000 per…

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Council's PCN fiasco: ex-official is still 'signing' official letters

Mayor Jason Perry’s Croydon, the London council that fined hundreds of drivers without sending them the proper Penalty Charge Notice in the first instance, is sending out PCNs and other legal notifications carrying the signature of a senior official who hasn’t worked at Fisher’s Folly for nine months. Fiasco: Mayor Jason Perry is piling up public cash, but failing to conduct basic admin tasks –…

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Government blocks public inquiry into collapse of councils

Any suspicion that the Establishment that controls local and national government doesn’t want the public to find out about the shady deals that go on in Town Halls up and down the land will have been confirmed with the news that a Tory minister has blocked calls for a public inquiry into one of the worst bankruptcies ever seen at a local authority. A petition signed by 1,500 Thurrock residents…

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Perry plans £100m more cuts in country's first AI-driven council

CROYDON IN CRISIS: ‘Transformation’ project is set to be rubber-stamped at this week’s cabinet meeting (it will be approved without anything resembling a debate). But according to council insiders, it is ‘rushed’, ‘full of risks’ and just a ‘Trojan horse’ for even more cuts to vital services The future’s bright, the future’s robotic: plans to replace the council CEO with a robot are already…

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Court condemns council's 'inhuman' treatment of disabled man

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Another costly legal defeat over housing, as High Court Judge finds our local authority acted deliberately in contravention of its responsibilities under the European Convention on Human Rights. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Court out badly again: another judge has ruled against lawyers hired by Croydon Council The High Court has given another damning judgement against Croydon…

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Cash-strapped council to splash out £4.8m on new laptops

CROYDON IN CRISIS: No money for adult services, half the borough’s libraries facing closure or down-grading, and Council Tax hiked by 21% in just 12 months. But Mayor Perry has found the cash to buy 3,700 new computers. By KEN LEE, Town Hall reporter Time for an upgrade: the council is buying 3,700 new laptops and tablets. It is keeping the name of the supplier a secret Within days of hiking the…

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Wanted: 'storyteller' to spin CEO Kerswell's recruitment binge

CROYDON IN CRISIS: ‘History,’ said Marx (Karl, not Groucho), ‘repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.’ At our cash-strapped council, we appeared to have arrived at the farcical stage. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Empire-building: council CEO Katherine Kerswell How good is your “story-telling”? £50,000 per year good? If so, Croydon’s cash-strapped council has just the job for you! Croydon…

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It's time for our elected councillors to stand up for Croydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Saddled with £1.4bn of ‘toxic’ debt, Mayor Perry has been rendered paralysed in his management of the cash-strapped council’s finances. Ahead of tonight’s budget meeting, ANDREW PELLING outlines some of the options for the borough’s politicians Betrayed: workers, residents associations and trades unions all say they were badly let down by Croydon Labour last year There’s…

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