Recent Comments
Neil Jackson on 15-year-old girl murdered on a… insidecroydon on Old Palace head announced reti… insidecroydon on Old Palace head announced reti… Anthony Miller on Old Palace head announced reti… Chris Flynn on Old Palace head announced reti… Croydon resident on Old Palace head announced reti…
Category Archives: Graham Cadle
‘Vitriol’: council staff let managers know what they think
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The former Town Hall leader and CEO have been criticised for allowing ‘a bullying culture’ at the council. ‘They were vicious in the way they marginalised anyone that spoke against them’. STEVEN DOWNES reports Croydon Council has … Continue reading
Council’s IT chief to join consultants who landed £5m contract
At least one senior council employee may have discovered an ability to act as a ‘rainmaker’ for private business, as KEN LEE reports The revolving door between Fisher’s Folly, Croydon Council’s head offices, and contractors who get juicy contracts from … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Graham Cadle, Jo Negrini, Matthew Wallbridge
Tagged Jo Negrini, Matthew Wallbridge, Rainmaker Solutions
4 Comments
Government expert named as council’s new chief digital officer
Neil Williams, the deputy director at the Government Digital Service, who is a resident of the north of the borough and a Crystal Palace football fan, has been named as Croydon Council’s new chief digital officer. Williams comes highly recommended … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Graham Cadle, Neil Williams
Tagged Graham Cadle, Harwinder Singh, Neil Williams
Leave a comment
Council ‘Godfather’ lands £100,000-plus job in Basingstoke
Croydon Council’s Godfather has found himself a new job. Graham Cadle, the sometime assistant chief exec at Fisher’s Folly, left Croydon Council at the start of the year apparently tired of being reminded that the crap app (© Inside Croydon) … Continue reading
Council kills off the crap app – after wasting up to £500,000
For five years, this website has reported on the failings of the council’s procurement and operation of MyCroydon, including paying £787 per day to the ‘mastermind’ behind the smartphone app. STEVEN DOWNES reports, the council has now finally binned the … Continue reading
Here’s just one of the questions Jo Negrini refuses to answer
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on an outbreak of control-freakery and censorship over the conduct of the chief executive and senior council staff Jo Negrini, Croydon’s vigorously self-promoting £185,000 a year chief executive, likes to give the impression that she … Continue reading
CEO Negrini threatened legal action to protect The Godfather
There’s even more fall-out in the council’s botched attempt to cover-up the £787 per day IT consultant nepotism scandal Jo Negrini, the council’s chief executive, threatened to use tax-payers’ money to sue this website on behalf of Graham Cadle, “The … Continue reading
Councillors accuse Negrini of gagging them over The Godfather
A leaked email from the council chief executive suggests she is trying to cover-up her attempted cover-up of the sudden departure of three senior employees. STEVEN DOWNES reports Elected councillors, already angry at being left uninformed of important developments at … Continue reading
Now head of revenues and benefits leaves over ‘The Godfather’
STEVEN DOWNES reports on the latest high-ranking casualty of Croydon Council’s ‘Godfather Affair’ Karen Sullivan, Croydon’s head of revenues and benefits, has become the third senior council employee in a month to leave their job at Fisher’s Folly as a … Continue reading
Councillor to report Croydon’s ‘Godfather Affair’ to police
STEVEN DOWNES on the backlash from senior figures at the Town Hall to the secrecy and cover-up over the sudden departure of a council director Senior councillors in Croydon have expressed mounting anger over the council’s “Godfather Affair”, where executive … Continue reading
Council in cover-up over departure of £787-a-day consultant
STEVEN DOWNES reports on the abrupt exit of the man behind Croydon’s ‘crap app’, following a serious breach of the Town Hall’s code of conduct Harwinder “Harry” Singh, Croydon Council’s £787-a-day “fake-it-till-you-make-it” IT consultant, is no longer working for the … Continue reading
‘The Godfather’ who paid mate £787 per day has left council
STEVEN DOWNES reports on the apparent departure from Fisher’s Folly of a council assistant chief executive who handed out £787.36-a-day to a family friend Graham Cadle, “The Godfather” of Croydon Council, has tonight cleared his desk for a final time. … Continue reading
Croydon makes ‘Rotten Boroughs’ over £700k IT overspend
Nearly two months since a formal Town Hall investigation was begun into how one of the council’s most senior executives could hire a family friend on £787 per day without declaring their relationship, and the Borough Solicitor is still to … Continue reading
Negrini ‘misinformed’ over data security says whistle-blower
STEVEN DOWNES reports on how the council’s chief executive has responded to serious concerns about the management of personal data with threats of legal action against this website The council’s chief executive maintains that there is no risk to the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Graham Cadle, Jo Negrini
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Graham Cadle, Harry Singh, Harwinder Singh, Jo Negrini
4 Comments
Private Eye makes a 999 police call over ‘The Godfather’
Inspector Knacker, the satirical fortnightly’s nickname for the police, should “log in and feel some digital collars” at Croydon Council, according to the latest edition of Private Eye magazine. The Godfather scandal at Fisher’s Folly, where assistant chief executive Graham … Continue reading
Newman remains silent over council’s ‘Godfather’ affair
By STEVEN DOWNES Council leader Tony Newman remains silent on the unfolding scandal at Fisher’s Folly, where the council’s assistant chief exec has overseen payments of £787 per day to a friend without first properly declaring the relationship, as is … Continue reading
Council CEO confirms ‘The Godfather’ paid chum £787 per day
STEVEN DOWNES reports on the latest clumsy move by Croydon Council’s £185,000 chief exec to try to cover-up a scandal in her administration Jo Negrini, Croydon Council’s chief executive, has confirmed that one of her most senior aides has managed … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Graham Cadle, Jo Negrini
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Graham Cadle, Jo Negrini, London Borough of Croydon
2 Comments
The Godfather (part 2): Residents’ data ‘at risk’ by off-shoring
The personal data of everyone paying Council Tax in Croydon may have been put at risk by the council’s decision to off-shore parts of its IT development programme to India, according to Town Hall whistle-blowers. STEVEN DOWNES reports The decision … Continue reading
The Godfather: Croydon official hired friend on £787 per day
A two-month investigation into Croydon Council’s IT operation has uncovered major concerns over procurement and payments. STEVEN DOWNES reports Croydon Council is undertaking its second internal investigation this year into the conduct of its assistant chief executive. Graham Cadle is … Continue reading
Costs mount on council’s rubbish MyCroydon app
A tech worker who carried out work on the MyCroydon app has told Inside Croydon that the company which was given the contract by the council, “is not really an ‘app developer’ or ‘software developer’. All it has done is … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Capita, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Graham Cadle, Phil Thomas, Refuse collection
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Graham Cadle, Harry Singh, MyCroydon app, Phil Thomas, Tech Hub, Tory
2 Comments
Councillors are not ‘Appy with MyCroydon’s performance
The MyCroydon smartphone app, a vital part of Labour’s new council administration’s “Don’t Mess With Croydon” T-shirt and slogans campaign, doesn’t work properly. Who says so? A group of Labour councillors, including the deputy cabinet member for T-shirts and slogans. … Continue reading
Council snubs local tech companies over smart phone app
The contract for Croydon Council’s latest innovation, the My Croydon smart phone app, was never put out to competitive tender. Instead, the deal – estimated to be worth a low five-figure sum – was awarded to a company which did … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Graham Cadle
Tagged app, Business, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Tech City, London Borough of Croydon, My Croydon, Sensemble, tech
2 Comments
Croydon’s Budget (Part 1): We’re all in this together
Croydon Council is about to set its budget for the coming financial year. The proposals go before next Monday’s cabinet meeting, prior to the council meeting on February 27. As work continues to build the vanity project that is to … Continue reading
