US EditionReform Announces Plans to Abandon KCC HQ Sale and Bring 500 Staff Back to Office
KENT, ENGLAND, JUL 9 – Reform UK plans to use artificial intelligence and forensic auditing to cut wasteful spending after gaining control of Kent County Council with 57 of 81 seats, officials said.
- Reform-Led Kent County Council will announce its ‘first big savings’ from cost-cutting efforts during a council meeting on Thursday.
- Reform UK aims to use artificial intelligence and data analysis to identify wasteful spending after winning a majority in local elections on May 1.
- Critics, including Liberal Democrat leader Antony Hook, claim no key decisions have been made and express concerns over data protection risks related to the cost-cutting initiative.
- The council has faced backlash for a controversial announcement regarding library books, which was later clarified as not changing existing policies.
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Reform council to save £40m as Doge unit axes net zero plans
A Reform-led council said it will save £40million by cutting net zero spending.The party's Doge unit has taken aim at Kent County Council, with plans to save £7.5million by 2030 by scrapping plans to convert the authority's fleet of cars to electric.Council leader Linden Kemkaran has pledged to save £32million over the same period by scrapping plans to make council property net zero compliant. She also suggested allowances for all councillors wi…
John Wall: Reform UK and the holy grail of finding real efficiency savings
John Wall is a retired engineer and former Conservative county councillor in Hampshire. Oppositions often claim that billions can be raised by cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion, but once in government little happens – probably because if it was easy their predecessors would have done it. Following their local elections success Reform have jumped on the efficiency savings bandwagon. It comes from tropes about public sector workers in ivo…
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However, the party has been accused of ‘poor governance’ during their first two months in power in Kent.
Kent leader outlines £40m of potential savings | Local Government Chronicle (LGC)
The Reform UK leader of Kent CC has revealed potential savings of £40m in her first full council speech. Linden Kemkaran used the meeting to outline work already done by her party to identify savings and help reduce the council’s £744m debt. Kent's budget for…The post Kent leader outlines £40m of potential savings appeared first on Local Government Chronicle (LGC).
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