Walderslade Primary Cost Overun

A fellow Medway blogger was kind enough to link further financial mismanagement by the Council in recent years.

According to Alan Watkins award-winning blog two further schemes had been under the spotlight only last year yet we see the same mistakes on overspend.

Is this endemic under Councillor Jarrett?

There was Borstal's primary school where £300,000 was spent on architects' fees only for them to be told to return to the drawing board.

Walderslade Primary School's rebuilding was costed at £3.2 million and the bill is more than £5 million.

Cllr Jarrett last week stated that this was 'value for money' yet the cost of the programme has ballooned.

Meanwhile we have other schools with poorly performing SATS outcomes not getting as much investment as leading schools.

There were also queries over the costs of Strood Academy, which was delayed three months until council chiefs could justify their plans.

Questions do need to be asked about financial management and procurement.