#&039;Future Croydon&039;

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Cash-strapped council has spent £6.4m... to make more cuts

CROYDON IN CRISIS: After cuts to services of £137m in four years and with this year’s council budget out of control, official figures show that the council is spending millions more to find out how to save money. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES More for less: council CEO Katherine Kerswell Payments by Croydon’s cash-strapped council to just three major firms of consultants, brought in to Fisher’s…

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Council consultants take six months to discover the obvious

CROYDON IN CRISIS: It has taken external consultants almost six months to discover that the council’s website is ‘jargon-heavy’, ‘corporate’ and ‘difficult’ to use. Those findings have cost the cash-strapped council at least £1m. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES ‘Transformation’: council CEO Katherine Kerswell, addressing the staff webinar last week After being paid at least £1million of money that…

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Council's multi-million consultant deals to make more cuts

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Staff in Fisher’s Folly have already dubbed the plan ‘No Future Croydon’. After cuts of £100m from council budgets in four years, now the chief exec is forking out public money to find more ways of axing services for children, older people and SEND. By our Town Hall reporter KEN LEE Pointless: Croydon residents should be demanding to know what their Council Tax is spent on – as…

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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…