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Nobody sees anything untoward.

Andrew Webb, CYPD, Donna Sager, CYPD, LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 12:19


Financial Procedure Rules – quite clear how they should behave.

Andrew Webb, CYPD, Donna Sager, CYPD, LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 12:11


I kept trying – no-one involved in this project at Stockport Council could claim ignorance

Andrew Webb, CYPD, LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 12:08



But, it turned out they couldn’t sell the redundant land.

Andrew Webb, CYPD, Donna Sager, CYPD, LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 12:02

You can’t find a buyer for the land, I said. Don’t be vexatious and stop wasting our precious time, they snarled in reply.



So, they intended to close two schools in North Reddish, the Fir Tree and North Reddish School, sell the land off for building and build a new school on an old tip which in the intervening decades had grassed over and become important local public space.

Andrew Webb, CYPD, Donna Sager, CYPD, LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 11:59



I tried to bring the financial irregularities to the notice of the Audit Committee, but they had a majority of LibDems so couldn’t have cared any less.

Andrew Webb, CYPD, Donna Sager, CYPD, LibDem Councillors Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 11:54


Rise in cost of the new school from £5.5m to £10m (plus ignored contamination remediation costs) explained in a back of a fag packet document.

Andrew Webb, CYPD, Donna Sager, CYPD, LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 09:48


Not only was there a financial irregularity of £4.5m (the rising cost of the school) but also another financial irregularity of over £220k in their explanation of that rise.

Andrew Webb, CYPD, Donna Sager, CYPD, LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 09:43

The Fraud and Financial Irregularities Policy at Stockport Council (no, don’t laugh).



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