Kent County Council

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 [...]

Reform UK’s Flag-and-Fury Playbook Is Already Running Kent

June 10, 2026 // 0 Comments

How a politics of flags, enemies, press bans and “common sense” is being tested from Westminster to County Hall in Kent There’s a moment when politics stops being [...]

Kent Travel Saver Rise: Poorest Families Hit Hardest

June 9, 2026 // 1 Comment

Kent County Council says a £35 rise is needed to keep its student bus pass scheme sustainable. But its own figures show the increase lands more than four times harder, [...]

KCC’s £133m Family Silver Sell-Off

June 8, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council says it has already raised more than £84m from surplus-property disposals since 2021/22. Now the Reform UK-run authority is lining up a further £49m, [...]

Kent IVF Cuts: “Class Warfare” Row After Reform Councillor Says Poor People Shouldn’t Have Babies

June 3, 2026 // 1 Comment

NHS Kent and Medway cut funded IVF as births fall and Kent ages. Then a Reform UK councillor said people on low incomes shouldn’t have babies and called IVF a “lifestyle [...]

KCC Paid PCAS Kent £16.5m As Director Loans and Inadequate Care Rating Raise Questions

May 26, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council has paid millions to a supported-living care provider now rated Inadequate by the Care Quality Commission. The company’s accounts don’t show [...]

KCC Paid £549m to Care Firms Linked to Poor CQC Ratings

May 24, 2026 // 2 Comments

KCC has paid tens of millions to adult social care suppliers whose linked services include CQC ratings of Requires Improvement or Inadequate. The question now is not who [...]

KCC Prayers Row: Reform’s Flag-Waving Won’t Fix Kent’s Failing Services

May 22, 2026 // 2 Comments

Kent County Council will now begin full council meetings with the Lord’s Prayer and end them with the national anthem. It will not, sadly, repair a single pothole, reduce [...]

Kent County Council Sits on £126m Developer Contributions as Schools and Roads Wait

May 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s latest available data shows more than £126m in developer contributions received or invoiced but not yet spent. Reform didn’t create the pile. But [...]

Taxpayer Toast and Lazy Parents: Linden Kemkaran’s Breakfast Club Problem

May 20, 2026 // 1 Comment

Kent County Council’s Reform UK leader promised to put “the people of Kent at the heart of everything we do”. Then came breakfast clubs, hungry children, and a warning [...]

David Wimble Helicopter Gift: The Alcaline Flights, KCC Register and Looker Adverts

May 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

Cllr David Wimble’s KCC declaration says his September Alcaline Aviation helicopter lift was a gift. His Facebook trail points to three 2025 flights. Now The Looker, the [...]

Farage Helicopter Row: How Reform’s David Wimble Put His Boss in the Spotlight

May 12, 2026 // 2 Comments

Nigel Farage now faces questions over undeclared helicopter travel linked to a Reform UK donor. The delicious Kent twist? The trail was opened up by Reform’s own Cllr David [...]

KCC Prayer Row: Reform Councillors Defy Legal Warning

May 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

No pothole has ever been filled by filming councillors saying the Lord’s Prayer. No care package has ever been arranged by singing the national anthem into a webcast. There [...]

KCC Adult Social Care: £62m Rise And Three Directors In One Year

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council says adult social care is improving. The payments data says it’s getting dearer. The audit report says the savings governance was weak. And since Reform [...]

KCC Spending: The £75m Rise, The £158m Mystery, And The Adult Social Care Reality

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s published payments over £250 rose by £75m in a year. Adult social care climbed by £62m. Children’s services appeared to fall by £97m. And more [...]

KCC Asset Sales: £84m Raised, But Full Property Ledger Remains Hidden

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council says it has raised more than £84m from surplus property disposals over five years. The trouble is not the headline number. The trouble is what the public [...]

Reform UK Runs Kent. KCC’s Oracle Cloud Bill Has Risen 134%

May 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s new finance system may be necessary. But with the bill now heading past £30m, the question is brutally simple: how is this saving the people of Kent [...]

Kent Trading Standards: Fighting Organised Crime on Our High Streets

May 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

A BBC investigation has exposed the ugly new reality facing Trading Standards officers: threats, intimidation, weapons, criminal shopfronts, illegal tobacco, illicit vapes [...]

Kent Fire Response Times Raise Safety Questions

May 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent Fire and Rescue isn’t simply getting busier. The more serious story is that it’s getting slower at reaching life-threatening incidents, while false alarms, road [...]

Reform-Led Kent Council Acted Unlawfully Over Young Asylum-Seeking Care Leaver

April 29, 2026 // 3 Comments

A vulnerable young asylum seeker turned 18. Kent stopped treating him as a child in care and started treating him like somebody else’s problem. The High Court has now said [...]

Folkestone Regeneration: Can £22m Heal A Town Of Two Halves?

April 28, 2026 // 5 Comments

Folkestone’s regeneration scheme began with a painful truth: the town was being described as “a town of two halves”. Now KCC is leading the transport and public realm [...]

Folkestone’s Grace Hill Library Rescue: Who Pays the Bill?

April 26, 2026 // 0 Comments

Nearly three years after campaigners stood outside Grace Hill demanding that Folkestone Library be repaired, retained and reopened, the building has been saved from the [...]

The Long Read: Folkestone & Hythe School Places — Empty Desks, Deficits and Pressure Points

April 26, 2026 // 0 Comments

England’s school-place debate has changed. The national watchdog says falling primary rolls now “requires a coordinated response”. In Folkestone & Hythe, the local [...]

Kent County Council FOI Delays: ICO Finds KCC Breached Freedom of Information Law

April 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council missed the legal deadline on a request about Sir Roger De Haan’s Folkestone meeting with senior KCC councillors, and the Information Commissioner had to [...]

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