The meeting centred on an investigation into three years of accounts which due to the issue of a section 114 notice, the shocking mismanagement found from the Caller report and the sacking of the improvement board by Councillors who wanted no change, left the accounts sitting unaudited for Best Value, with them failing the tests yet again. Making it seven years since the Council last achieved Best Value on behalf of the public they are meant to serve.
But the biggy for many families was the official news that the Council has been advised to slash its borrowing requirement and should not rely on the use of its reserves (as they are required to cover off its massive debt). This news if followed by the spend, spend, spend Conservative Councillors in charge at County Hall in Morpeth will lead to a rapid rundown of services that taxpayers pay heavily for.
But a much smaller group may have come out of this meeting feeling a little happier as it was revealed officially during the meeting that the long running and regularly referred to by Northumberland Conservatives investigation into ARCH by the Police, private investigators and the internationally recognised auditor EY had found that there had been NO CRIMINALITY IN ARCH.
The investigations costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public funds began in August 2017 just after the Conservatives took power in Northumberland when the Conservative Group running wild suspended company directors and publicly attacked Councillors who had driven ARCH forward raining personal attacks and dangerous innuendo against people in the press carrying on in social media which destroyed reputations and damaged trust in certain people in many cases losing the trust and support of their own families.
It was revealed that reports that had been placed into the public domain via the Council's audit committee about Councillors involved with ARCH were completely untrue. At this week's Council Audit Committee the Government chosen auditors for the County Council, Mazarrs, exposed the fact that those very damaging slanderous reports presented to the press and public HAD NOT BEEN WRITTEN BY AUDITORS.
It was also brought to the fore that the Police investigation into ARCH had ended in 2019 and yet the Conservative administration had not officially acknowledged that no criminality had been found in ARCH until this week keeping external pressure on the accused workers and Councillors for the last six years stretching the period pressure was placed on them through the slanderous public reports and continued reference into the investigations.
During 2019 the Hexham Courant did try to bring the end of the investigations by the police into the public arena but top Councillors refuted the claims using a Parish Magazine as a springboard and the black rain of social media was used by the Conservatives supporters to refute the reference and even damage the reputation of a sub regional long established newspaper.
Calls from members of the public and relatives of those affected have begun to eat into the dark social media and expose the wrongs that six years of pressure has brought onto people through the what has been described as the criminality of Conservative Councillors who had been given official information by Northumbria Police and instead of releasing the truth, demanded that another police force needed to be brought in to investigate those damaged and affected through the previous investigations further which would also be at great cost to the Council.
Those same families are also asking that the full truth is exposed and that:
The Council issues a public apology for keeping a falsehood running against people for an additional four years from 2019 to November 2023 after the police closed its books on the investigation finding nothing that people could be charged with, an investigation begun in August 2017.
Those who wrote or were involved in writing false reports and presenting them to the Audit Committee in the full knowledge that the contents of the reports were false, resign immediately and the Council supports an investigation into their activities.
That the Council looks at its policies and procedures to locate the process used to damage the reputation of its audit committee which should be beyond reproach and ensure alterations are closed off which falsely slanders and libels innocent people.
IT IS WRONG TO EXTEND THE SENTENCE OF REPUTATIONAL DAMAGE ON THOSE FOUND TO BE INNOCENT BY THE POLICE FOR AN UNLIMITED LENGTH OF TIME WITHOUT AN OFFICIAL NOTICE FROM THE COUNCIL< WHICH IS A PUBIC BODY NOT A POLITICAL PARTIES PERSONAL TOOL.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/two-arch-directors-suspended-review-13440709
https://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/17509907.police-investigation-arch-finds-no-criminal-offences/
https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/details-of-long-running-arch-saga-in-northumberland-laid-bare-at-tribunal-120176
https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/calls-for-outside-police-force-to-look-into-arch-concerns-120969
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