KCC’s audit papers don’t prove fraud. They reveal a circular control system in which weak training, payment workarounds and manual checks depend upon one another — while Reform UK’s promised financial watchdog has been folded into the machinery it was created to challenge. Thirteen. That was the number before Kent County Council’s Governance and Audit Committee on 23 July. KCC had 474 cost-centre managers, yet only 13 had completed its Budget Ma…
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