Council bets on £1.9m consultants to save it £50m as financial crisis deepens
Wandsworth Council faces devastating £90m funding gap but keeps spending anyway.
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“Did your transformation programme fail?” Council leadership grilled
Just two years after launching what it called “the most significant programme of change the Council has embarked…
The party’s over: council tax will need to at least double to avoid fiscal “cliff edge”
Council burning through £28m reserves this year as both parties prioritised low-tax credentials over looming £90m crisis.
Council hides devastating – and hilarious – waste in flagship £5m programme
Selective data release exposes mission creep as council struggles to justify flagship scheme.
Wandsworth’s ‘decade of renewal’ masks £17 million budget crisis
Councillors celebrate ambitious spending while services spiral into mounting debt.
No questions. No scrutiny. £1.9m gone in 20 seconds.
Wandsworth Cabinet signs off council transformation programme covered in concerns and red flags.
Council plans £1m consultant spend on ‘Transformation’ – but will savings ever arrive?
Rushed contract promises savings but secrecy and past failures raise serious doubts.
Wandsworth’s £3bn pension pot under fire after costly fund failures
Active managers dragged down returns, sparking calls to shift money into safer passive funds.
Council IT chief shuts out competition in £3.7m deal conflict
Wandsworth officer blocks alternatives to government auction he helps run, as decision gets delayed seven times.
You will paying £££s more in council tax over the next three years, IFS warns
Independent analysis shows Putney will be among the hardest hit by Labour's plans.