Tag Archives: Pay-off

Rubbish contractors don’t know how many bins there are

Posted on December 31, 2025 by insidecroydon

Four years after being caught out ripping out 1,000 street bins – all to make work for rubbish contractors Veolia a bit easier – and now Croydon Council is forced to admit it has no real idea of how many … Continue reading →

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CEO quit council with £50,000 pay-off to not work for 3 months

Posted on December 31, 2025 by insidecroydon

This was awkward: Jason Perry, the politician who promised to clawback money from the massive golden handshake paid to the previous council CEO, in October found himself overseeing a pay-off to Katherine Kerswell, as she resigned after five years as … Continue reading →

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Auditors issue Perry with warning over ‘unsustainable’ finances

Posted on October 20, 2025 by insidecroydon

The council’s emergency borrowing since 2019 will top £1billion within three years, according to a highly critical report from auditors Grant Thornton, as they show Croydon’s Mayor the local authority equivalent of a yellow card. By our Town Hall reporter, … Continue reading →

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LGA: multi-million-pound bail-outs becoming ‘normalised’

Posted on October 20, 2025 by insidecroydon

‘The country cannot deliver growth, reform public services or improve life chances without fixing local government finances’ according to the Local Government Association in its pre-Budget submission to the Chancellor On the same day that Katherine Kerswell quit as Croydon … Continue reading →

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‘I’ll miss heartfelt moments we have shared in our Tea Talks’

Posted on October 17, 2025 by insidecroydon

In her final message to staff, council CEO describes a pay-off of possibly as much as £95,000 as ‘just my contractual notice period’. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES In typical Croydon Council style under Katherine Kerswell’s leadership, it was the borough’s … Continue reading →

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