Kent County Council

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 [...]

Storm Goretti Was Lydd’s Warning — Nine Months Later, Its Community Resilience Plan Still Doesn’t Exist

September 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

As autumn closes in and another winter approaches, Lydd, like the rest of us towns and villages, is heading back into the season of strong winds, heavy rain, high seas and [...]

£9m Later, the Wait Is Still a Mystery: Folkestone & Hythe’s Disabled Facilities Grants

September 17, 2026 // 0 Comments

In 2018/19, Folkestone & Hythe District Council said there was “currently no waiting list” for its Disabled Facilities Grant scheme. Today, the council tells [...]

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 and Medway LGR Paused as Government Reviews Option 4B and Orders Councils to Stop Work

September 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent and Medway’s Local Government Reorganisation hasn’t been cancelled. But Whitehall has now told councils to stop implementing July’s decision because ministers may [...]

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 [...]

Part 3: Hodson’s Chilmington Green Collapse — £211.9m in Creditor Claims, Six Administrations and 5,750 Homes at Stake

September 4, 2026 // 2 Comments

Chilmington Green was supposed to be much more than a housing estate. Ashford planned for a new community of up to 5,750 homes, schools, shops, parks and roads, backed by [...]

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 [...]

Kent Council Debt: Borrowing Reaches £2.45bn as Medway Overtakes KCC Ahead of Local Government Reorganisation

August 24, 2026 // 1 Comment

New Government figures show nine of Kent’s 14 councils borrowing more than two years ago. With four new unitary councils due in 2028, those liabilities aren’t simply [...]

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 [...]

Exclusive: Kent and Medway Councils Agreed £11.9m LGR Fund Before Government Chose Option 4B

August 17, 2026 // 1 Comment

On 16 July 2026, ministers finally settled the future shape of local government in Kent and Medway. Option 4B had won. Four new unitary councils would replace the existing [...]

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 [...]

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 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; [...]

Kent Local Government Reorganisation: Four Unitary Councils, Debt and Costs — Long Read

July 19, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent knows where the new boundaries will run. It still doesn’t know who’ll inherit the mortgage. Steve Reed MP Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local [...]

Kent Local Government Reorganisation: Four Unitary Councils and One Almighty Hangover

July 17, 2026 // 0 Comments

What follows isn’t a leaked meeting or a quotation from any named council officer. It’s an imagined pub conversation translating Kent’s local government shake-up into [...]

Folkestone A Brighter Future: £22m Project Delayed by at Least 17 Months

July 16, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council says Folkestone – A Brighter Future is now “80% complete”. It’s a neat little figure, polished until it shines: the sort of [...]

Free School Meals In Folkestone & Hythe Rise From One In Five Pupils To Almost One In Three

July 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

The free-school-meals (FSM) line in Folkestone & Hythe doesn’t wobble. It climbs. All-schools district data shows the rate rising from 19.8% in 2020 to 32.6% in 2026. [...]

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