Torbay Council has been landed with a massive bill because they underpaid care homes by hundreds of thousands of pounds.

In a judgment that should send shivers down the spines of EDDC councillors, a judge said:

“Accountants commissioned to report on the council’s workings agreed with TQCF’s claim that the authority had made “illogical mathematical errors” and TQCF won a judicial review at the High Court in London.

The judge agreed that the calculation it used was “fundamentally flawed”.”

That’s what can happen if you don’t get your sums right …