Kent County Council

Five Reform Councils Pay 55p a Mile — So Why Are KCC Staff Still Getting 45p?

September 29, 2026 // 0 Comments

This is a Guest post by a Kent County Council employee I work for Kent County Council. My job requires me to travel across a wide operational area, around Kent and sometimes [...]

Your Home Flooded? Look at the Drain — It Could Decide Whether FHDC or KCC Is Liable

September 28, 2026 // 0 Comments

Autumn is already here. Leaves are falling, the days are shortening and winter is approaching — which means the question of whether Folkestone & Hythe’s gullies and [...]

Kent County Council Paid £27m to Place Children in Unregistered Homes Over Two Years.

September 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Last month, The Shepway Vox Team revealed how Kent County Council paid Catalyst Care Limited £2,419,480.59 between 2021 and July 2025. Catalyst’s two controlling directors [...]

Kent County Council Register of Interests: Questions Extend Beyond Reform UK

September 8, 2026 // 0 Comments

Byline Times says it’s “not politically partisan” and promises to follow stories “wherever” they go, “without fear or favour”. Yet its investigation into [...]

Kent County Council Staff Suspensions: Seven Cases Lasted a Year or More as Average Hit 166 Days

September 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council says disciplinary issues should be dealt with through a “swift and effective process”. Yet its latest figures show staff suspensions averaging 166 [...]

Kent Local Government Reorganisation: KCC Considers Judicial Review of Option 4B

September 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

Reform-led Kent County Council says the Government selected a financially weaker model for reorganising Kent and failed to address serious concerns about the county’s [...]

Bradstow School Closed — Now Kent and Wandsworth Are Fighting Over £4.58m in SEND Fees

September 2, 2026 // 0 Comments

Bradstow School in Broadstairs educated and cared for children with some of the most complex special educational needs and disabilities. Kent County Council didn’t merely [...]

KCC’s £100m AI Surveillance Framework: The GDPR Guide That Thinks It’s About Electric Cars

August 25, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s national surveillance framework can help public bodies buy facial-recognition cameras, artificial-intelligence surveillance, biometrics, ANPR, thermal [...]

I Run a Care Home in Kent: Overseas Care Workers Are Essential to Social Care

August 19, 2026 // 2 Comments

This is a Guest Post I run a care home in Kent. That means when politicians talk about “foreign labour”, I don’t see a statistic or a convenient line for social media. [...]

KCC Scraps £14.5m Junction 11 Waste Transfer Station for Folkestone & Hythe After £722,000 Spend

August 18, 2026 // 1 Comment

Kent County Council is preparing to abandon its planned waste transfer station (marked in orange below) beside Junction 11 of the M20, writing off around £722,000 already [...]

Kent County Council’s £4m NHS Invoice: Zena Cooke, Ivor Duffy and the Missing Evidence

August 16, 2026 // 1 Comment

Zena Cooke (pictured below left) has moved on. So has Ivor Duffy (pictured below right). Cooke is now Lambeth Council’s Corporate Director of Resources and its statutory [...]

Kent County Council Exit Payments: £1.66m Gap Between Official Figures

August 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council says its efficiency drive is about making “every penny count”. Yet its 2025/26 accounts record £1.112m of exit packages while the Government’s [...]

Kent SEND Deficit More Than Doubles to Nearly £300m as KCC Forecasts Another £110m

August 11, 2026 // 1 Comment

Kent County Council made a decision on 5 August to accept £12.155 million of new Government money for SEND reform. But several pages into the accompanying report sits the [...]

Illegal Children’s Homes: How KCC and Medway Paid Catalyst Care £2.5m

August 6, 2026 // 1 Comment

Kent County Council and Medway Council’s published records identify £2,493,697.74 paid to Catalyst Care Limited: £2,419,480.59 from KCC and £74,217.15 from Medway for [...]

KCC Pension Fund Holds £38m in Oil, Gas, Coal and Arms Firms, Including Companies Linked to Gaza

August 3, 2026 // 1 Comment

Kent’s pension fund has spent years edging away from some of the world’s dirtiest and deadliest industries. Yet the latest company-level records show the job isn’t [...]

Oaken Wood Quarry Expansion Moves Closer After KCC Backs Plan by Six Votes

July 30, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council hasn’t approved a quarry extension into Oaken Wood—but by keeping the site in its minerals plan, it has moved that prospect a considerable step [...]

Kent County Council Audit Exposes Significant Financial Control Issues Under Reform UK

July 27, 2026 // 1 Comment

KCC’s audit papers don’t prove fraud. They reveal a circular control system in which weak training, payment workarounds and manual checks depend upon one another — [...]

Long Read: Kent Library Visits Rise as Physical Loans Fall and Costs Climb

July 26, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent’s libraries gained almost exactly as many visits as they lost physical loans. Between 2023/24 and 2024/25, recorded visits to Kent’s libraries and mobile services [...]

Cllr David Wimble on Nigel Farage: A Pint, a Phone and ‘We Make It Up as We Go Along’

July 24, 2026 // 1 Comment

Satire occasionally arrives fully assembled. On page 45 of the latest Looker, David Wimble mocks Britain’s instant experts: “Apparently all you need to become Britain’s [...]

Kent County Council Reform UK Led Audit Committee ‘Not Effective’ as Camilla Black May Resign

July 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s only independent audit committee member says the body isn’t working, serious questions aren’t being answered and the people responsible for [...]

Why KCC’s Folkestone Library Footfall Comparison Is Nonsense: Grace Hill v Sandgate Road

July 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

Brian Collins arrived at KCC’s Cabinet meeting brandishing two figures as though he’d just cracked the Enigma code. Grace Hill library received 4,613 visits in June 2022; [...]

KCC DOLGE: Reform UK’s Waste Hunt Finds “No Obvious Wasteful Spending” After £22.7m Overspend

July 1, 2026 // 1 Comment

Reform arrived at County Hall promising to hunt waste. Then KCC’s own DOLGE paper said the job was to check “there was no obvious wasteful spending”. That’s the [...]

KCC’s £22.7m Overspend Punctures Reform’s Waste-Cutting Promise

June 19, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Tories set Kent County Council’s 2025/26 budget in February, before they lost office. Reform has run KCC since May 2025. By the end of March, the council was £22.7m [...]

The Long Read: KCC Banks Solar Farm Cash as Reform Says No to Romney Marsh Panels

June 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

Reform-led Kent County Council says it wants to protect Kent farmland from excessive solar development. Fair enough. But the council also owns solar farms, including a [...]

Kent Travel Saver: Reform’s “People of Kent” Promise Fails the £35 Bus Test

June 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s £35 Kent Travel Saver rise survived scrutiny on Thursday. But the meeting left one hard question idling at the stop: when Reform says it will put [...]

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