Kent County Council

Whistleblowers claim up to 25% of KCC Social Workers are alcoholics.

December 3, 2021 // 10 Comments

This is a guest post We are three senior social workers who work for Kent County Council. We have in excess of fifty years experience within our profession. We have come to [...]

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 [...]

Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update

September 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

On April 19th 2021, a letter was sent by five councils to Robert Jenrick MP, then Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government & [...]

How to shoot yourself in the foot.

September 22, 2021 // 2 Comments

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

September 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

“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

September 9, 2021 // 8 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 [...]

The children who no-one knows what to do with

September 5, 2021 // 2 Comments

“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.” Dave Pelzer, A Child Called “It” In 2019 Children in [...]

Perverse & absurd, but KCC keep paying their offshore PFI contractors

August 23, 2021 // 4 Comments

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

August 21, 2021 // 2 Comments

“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.

August 8, 2021 // 11 Comments

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

August 6, 2021 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

KCC Pension Fund Investments continue to divest from fossil fuel companies

August 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

For its 142,532 members it is good news, so is it for the rest of us. Kent County Council’s Pension Fund has in the main divested itself of oil and gas stock which [...]

What a bunch of Morons

July 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

What a bunch of overpaid morons we have at Kent County Council. Under the Local Audit & Accountability Act 2014 (LAAA 2014) any resident of Kent or journalist can [...]

Dr Susan Priest Chief Exec of FHDC fails to land top KCC job

June 17, 2021 // 3 Comments

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

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 [...]

Senior Council Officers and Cllrs rewarded handsomely for losing public purse tens of thousands of pounds

May 19, 2021 // 4 Comments

Between them they have lost the public purse tens of thousands of pounds and failed to keep the publication scheme up to date. The publication scheme aims to make the maximum [...]

Broadband slowly improving across the district

May 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

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% [...]

Ask your local Parish, Town, District County council to put heat pumps under playing fields and parks

May 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

One of the things which has come out of the pandemic is how important nature is to us all. Our green spaces have provided us with places to relax and enjoy nature at close [...]

Ex Mayor gets Dick out.

May 7, 2021 // 6 Comments

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

April 18, 2021 // 4 Comments

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 [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council buy Ship Street site twice

April 15, 2021 // 4 Comments

Updated: 17/04/21 @08:42 On the 20th October 2019, Kentonline Folkestone section declared that Folkestone & Hythe District Council had bought the former Gasworks site at [...]

Lethal levels of arsenic present on former Officers Mess Aerodrome Road Hawkinge site.

April 1, 2021 // 7 Comments

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 [...]

Hypocrisy by District and Kent County Cllrs over Council Tax

February 18, 2021 // 3 Comments

For those of you not aware, Council tax debt is the most common debt seen by Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) advisers. The CAB estimated in the first 3 months of Coronavirus, [...]

Nine Kent Councils collect £3.5 million in Penalty Charge Notices

January 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

Between August 2019 and July 2020, according to data collected through Freedom of Information (FoI) requests by Compare the Market, Medway Council has issued the most Penalty [...]

Greenie grumbler to step down at next KCC election

December 13, 2020 // 3 Comments

On Thursday 2nd May 2013, Martin Edward Whybrow (Green) (pictured) was elected with 1,659 votes to Kent County Council Hythe Ward. He beat Cllr David Drury Monk (Con) who [...]

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