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 [...]
Developer offered land for 2,000 homes in exchange for building new hospital facility for free
Developer Quinn Estates have been offered land for 2,000 homes in exchange for building new hospital facility on land owned by Kent County Council & Canterbury City [...]
£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, [...]
Council Tax rises to add to cost of living misery for Kent residents
Two down, three to go. It’s that time of the year Parish Councils, District Council’s the County Council, Kent Police and Kent Fire & Rescue Service (KFRS), [...]
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 [...]
Kent County Council Draft Budget – it ain’t good news
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. [...]
Child protection referrals for domestic abuse in Kent fell between 2018/19 – 2020/21
The trend for the number of child protection referrals by Kent Police, to Kent County Council Social Services, actually fell between 2018/19 – 2020/21, according to [...]
Otterpool Park Update: The Reuben Brothers Mystery and our Public Rights of Way
Wherever you travel in Sellindge [Kent] you find land earmarked for development, being developed, or land banking by one of these four companies. Cozumel Estates Gladman [...]
Flytipping increases 29% between 2019/20 and 2020/21 in The Garden of England
Fly-tipping is defined as the “illegal deposit of any waste on to land that does not have a licence to accept it”. Once again, the number of reported flytipping [...]
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 [...]
Whistleblowers claim up to 25% of KCC Social Workers are alcoholics.
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
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
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.
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 [...]
The children who no-one knows what to do with
“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
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 [...]