Breaking News: KCC Cllr Harry Rayner withdraws from leadership battle
On the 28th July 2023, KCC Cllr Harry Rayner, County Member for Malling West (pictured below left), threw his hat into the ring to become leader of the Conservatives at [...]
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Part 3: Kent County Council’s special-education system is on its knees
No-one can claim we are short of evidence that support for children with Special Education Needs & Disabilities needs a radical overhaul. It is now very clear to everyone [...]
Ombudsman uncovers backlog of 170 unanswered children’s services and education complaints at Kent County Council
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has uncovered a backlog of 170 unanswered children’s services and education complaints at Kent County Council, while [...]
Do Sunningdale House Developments Ltd have growing cashflow issues?
Word has reached the Shepway Vox Team, that various companies within the Sunningdale House Developments group of companies, owned by David Pownceby (pictured), are having [...]
Fly-tipping in Folkestone & Hythe District rises 52%, the highest in Kent
The number of recorded fly-tipping incidents between 2020/21 and 2021/22, across the Folkestone & Hythe District has grown by 52%, according to the latest statistics [...]
Exposed: Tory County Councillor was key member of fascist group
Updated: 11:17am Nov 19 2022 A HOPE not hate investigation reveals that Cllr Andy Weatherhead, who represents Hythe West on Kent County Council, was a senior officer for the [...]
KCC close to bankruptcy while overcharging domicilary care clients
Kent County Council and Hampshire County Council in a joint letter letter to the Prime Minister – Rishi Sunak and the Chancellor of the Exchequeur – Jeremy Hunt, [...]
Otterpool Team to give briefing on the updated Planning Application
How many times does it take for you to listen to somebody who informs you, they don’t want it, or they object to what your offering? The Otterpool Park site is where [...]
Kent County Council loaned £20m to authority now under investigation due to ‘exceptional’ debt
During the financial year 1 Apr 2021 & 31 Mar 2022, Kent County Council (KCC) lent £20m to Thurrock Council which is now under investigation due to its “exceptional [...]
Part 3: KCC Special Education Needs spreading misinformation
They do make one laugh especially when they provide false information, but hey this is the modern age of misinformation and Kent County Council (KCC) want to be in on the act [...]
Part 2: Kent County Council’s special-education system is on its knees
Updated @ 08:35 on 10.05.22 The number of Kent Children and Young People aged between 0-25 with Education & Health Care Plans (EHCP), has risen from 15,281 in 2021 to [...]
Kent County Council’s special-education system is on its knees
Sandra’s daughter Georgina, born in 2010, began crawling late, around the time that other children were learning to walk. Pre-school staff warned that her speech was [...]
Matt Dunkley KCC Director for Children, Young People and Education to leave KCC
Updated @ 20:17 Matt Dunkley CBE Kent County Council Corporate Director for Children, Young People and Education, will be leaving KCC in the near future. Mr Dunkley was the [...]
£35.7m paid in ‘exit payments’ to KCC staff in last seven years.
Exit payments from Councils have long been controversial and many have been paid out to “public sector fat cats“, according to a House of Commons Briefing paper. [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council paid Russian gas giant on day war begun with Ukraine
The war began on Thursday 24th Feb, 2022. It has been 41 days since Russian forces swept across the border into the Ukraine, causing millions to flee their homes and their [...]
KCC Pension Fund fuelling Putin’s War Machine, but they’re trying to divest.
Before we get to Kent County Council, the people of Kent should be aware that vast sums of Russian money has flowed and continues to flow through hundreds of companies [...]
KCCs shocking failures in data protection and continued overcharging of clients receiving adult social care
Since Kent County Council employees have been working from home, there has been an sharp increase in the number of data breaches occurring. But it doesn’t stop there. [...]
Good News emerges from KCC’s budget after intensive lobbying
Sometimes when residents and organizations lobby KCC Cllrs, they do listen. Such was the case with the recent KCC budget. Members of the Shepway Vox Team and many others, [...]
KCC Draft Budget to decimate Homeless & Disabled Services
KCC’s draft budget to be discussed and voted on this coming Thursday, 10 Feb, is proposing £37.9m of savings [read cuts]. £10 million of these proposed savings, or [...]
For six years the Council have been committing a criminal offence at Otterpool
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have since taking ownership of the land on the west side of Otterpool Lane, Sellindge (Lots 1, 2 & 3 below), been committing a [...]
How to shoot yourself in the foot.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA), is a simple piece of legislation. Pretty much anybody can make a request for information to a public authority under the FoIA [...]
Kent County Council’s LED streetlights decimating moth numbers
“Eco-friendly” LED streetlights produce even worse light pollution for insects than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing, a study has found. The study is the [...]
KCC aware of overcharging for Adult Social Care in January 2021
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 [...]
Perverse & absurd, but KCC keep paying their offshore PFI contractors
Back in 2013, Peter Read, who runs the Kent Independent Education Advice website, uncovered a financial scandal relating to academies. In his article published on 22 Sept [...]
Dangerous Pavements and Rampant Weeds blighting our beautiful district
“Appearance Matters” so said Cllr David Monk (Con), Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council at a full council meeting on the 19 Sept 2018. Since then he [...]