Illegal Children’s Homes: How KCC and Medway Paid Catalyst Care £2.5m
Kent County Council and Medway Council’s published records identify £2,493,697.74 paid to Catalyst Care Limited: £2,419,480.59 from KCC and £74,217.15 from Medway for [...]
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Ofsted: Kent Care Leavers in Unsafe Homes
In Kent, young adults leaving care are telling inspectors something no “corporate parent” should ever have to hear: I don’t feel safe where I live. In a local authority [...]
Folkestone School for Girls Builds £1.5m Reserve, While Pupils Stay Home
Continuing our theme of examining school finances, we turn to Folkestone School for Girls. Today, we shine a light on the accounts 2015 – 2024 – behind the [...]
KCC Special Education Needs Services: “don’t care” and “are incompetent’
In March 2019, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Ofsted produced a damming report on Kent Council’s, Special Education Needs & Disability service. At that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Turner schools: part 3, Morehall and Martello primary schools.
Morehall Primary (Cheriton) Morehall was taken over by Turner Schools from the failed Lilac Sky Academy Trust in January 2017. One year on, pupil numbers have slumped from [...]