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 [...]
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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 [...]
Revealed: Dead people invoiced for domiciliary care and KCC refuse to release time clipping data.
Evidence has emerged that dead people are being invoiced for domiciliary care they could not have received; and persons moved to care homes are still being invoiced by [...]
Further budget cuts at KCC will mean more inflation busting Council Tax increases
Like night follows day, like sunshine follows rain, the raising of Council Tax bills in Feb 2022 across all Kent district councils is inevitable due to KCC looking to plug a [...]
Dr Susan Priest Chief Exec of FHDC fails to land top KCC job
Dr Susan Priest became Head of Paid Service of Folkestone & Hythe District Council as of April 1st 2018, beating the s151 officer Tim Madden to the job. She later [...]
Part 1: Overpayment of millions by KCC domiciliary service users due to call clipping ancedotal evidence suggests
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 [...]
Broadband slowly improving across the district
Once again the latest data released by Ofcom for Broadband connectivity and speeds across our area shows a very mixed bag. It shows that Hawkinge for instance has 38.4% [...]
Ex Mayor gets Dick out.
Ex Mayor of Folkestone Cllr Jackie Meade (Lab) May 2019/May20 ousted incumbent Kent County Council Tory Cllr Dick Pascoe, and took the Folkestone East seat in the KCC [...]
Flytipping increases 18% after costs introduced by KCC in 2019/20
It’s official! The number of flying tipping incidences between the financial years 2018/19 and 2019/20 has risen across all twelve councils in Kent (not including [...]
Lethal levels of arsenic present on former Officers Mess Aerodrome Road Hawkinge site.
Updated: 01/04/21 @20:27 Land at the Former Officers Mess, Elvington Lane, Aerodrome Road Hawkinge purchased by Pentland Homes on 01/12/2020 for £2.5 million, according to [...]
The Irony of Princes Parade
Isn’t life ironic! The Cabinet member responsible for the Environment at Folkestone & Hythe District Council has had to resort to sending in a Freedom of [...]
Part 1: Are Kent County Council Finances in Safe Hands?
Zena Cooke (pictured) is probably a woman you have never heard of. There is no need for you to have ever heard of her. She is Kent County Council’s (KCC) Director of [...]