Adult Social Care

£267m in KCC Payments to Care Providers as One in Five Kent and Medway Homes Require Improvement or Are Inadequate

October 19, 2026 // 0 Comments

Nearly £267 million. That’s how much Kent County Council (KCC) recorded in residential and nursing-care payments between April 2022 and June 2026 to suppliers linked [...]

Kent’s NHS Is Clogged: 500 Patients Can’t Get Out — While Thousands Struggle to Get In

September 30, 2026 // 0 Comments

Getting into the health system is difficult. Getting out of it can be just as difficult. That, in simple terms, is the problem facing Kent and Medway. At one end, patients [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wimble’s Wobble: KCC Cabinet Member David Wimble Says “£52m” Adult Social Care Overspend — KCC’s Own Papers Say Otherwise

January 29, 2026 // 0 Comments

During a debate at Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Full Council meeting, Reform UK councillor David Wimble backed extra support for residents “down on their [...]

Kent County Council Adult Social Care Debt: Nearly £4m Written Off in Five Years as Costs Rise, Arrears Grow and Cases Go to Court

November 30, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council (KCC) has written off £3,919,551 of adult social care debt over the five financial years from April 2020 to April 2025, according to an FOI disclosure [...]

Kent County Council audit: clean opinion, deep financial risks

October 23, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent audit signs off the Tories’ final year — but warns of structural risks the new Reform UK leadership must now tackle Grant Thornton will issue an unqualified opinion [...]

Explained: How Local Councils Raise Council Tax Without a Referendum

July 30, 2025 // 0 Comments

What happened to residents’ right to vote on ‘excessive’ council tax increases? And what does that have to do with the growing number of councils in financial crisis? [...]

Kent Proposes £1.78 Billion Elderly Care Contract Over 8 Years Amid Rising Nursing Demand

July 7, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council is preparing to rewrite the rules on how it provides care home placements for older people in a move that could cost up to £1.78 billion over eight years [...]

Part 2: Census Population Data – Kent Districts 2011 – 2021

July 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

The new census data underlies what statisticians, economists, politicians and most of the population have known for years: that Britain is ageing. The same is true in Kent. [...]

Kent County Council Draft Budget – it ain’t good news

February 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

On Thursday Feb 10, 2022, Kent County Council [KCC] will be setting it’s budget. But before we begin, we wish to draw your attention to a matter which needs raising. [...]

Problems abound for Meritum domiciliary care company

October 18, 2021 // 5 Comments

Since we last last wrote about overcharging by a domiciliary care company – Meritum Intergrated Care LLP, there have been some further developments which customers [...]

KCC aware of overcharging for Adult Social Care in January 2021

September 9, 2021 // 10 Comments

Back in June 2021, we ran a post titled: Part 1: Overpayment of millions by KCC domiciliary service users due to call clipping ancedotal evidence suggests In July the Kent [...]

Part 1: Overpayment of millions by KCC domiciliary service users due to call clipping ancedotal evidence suggests

June 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

The outsourcing revolution in social care started with the NHS and Community Care Act 1990, which established councils’ central functions as assessing need and funding and [...]

Now what we need are facts

December 30, 2018 // 1 Comment

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form [...]

Money, Money, Money

December 27, 2017 // 2 Comments

I work all night I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay, ain’t it sad And still there never seems to be, a single penny left for me, that’s too bad; so say [...]

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