Kent County Council Exit Payments: £1.66m Gap Between Official Figures
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 [...]
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KCC’s £22.7m Overspend Punctures Reform’s Waste-Cutting Promise
The Tories set Kent County Council’s 2025/26 budget in February, before they lost office. Reform has run KCC since May 2025. By the end of March, the council was £22.7m [...]
The Long Read: KCC Banks Solar Farm Cash as Reform Says No to Romney Marsh Panels
Reform-led Kent County Council says it wants to protect Kent farmland from excessive solar development. Fair enough. But the council also owns solar farms, including a [...]
Kent Travel Saver: Reform’s “People of Kent” Promise Fails the £35 Bus Test
Kent County Council’s £35 Kent Travel Saver rise survived scrutiny on Thursday. But the meeting left one hard question idling at the stop: when Reform says it will put [...]
KCC’s £133m Family Silver Sell-Off
Kent County Council says it has already raised more than £84m from surplus-property disposals since 2021/22. Now the Reform UK-run authority is lining up a further £49m, [...]
Kent IVF Cuts: “Class Warfare” Row After Reform Councillor Says Poor People Shouldn’t Have Babies
NHS Kent and Medway cut funded IVF as births fall and Kent ages. Then a Reform UK councillor said people on low incomes shouldn’t have babies and called IVF a “lifestyle [...]
KCC Paid PCAS Kent £16.5m As Director Loans and Inadequate Care Rating Raise Questions
Kent County Council has paid millions to a supported-living care provider now rated Inadequate by the Care Quality Commission. The company’s accounts don’t show [...]
KCC Paid £549m to Care Firms Linked to Poor CQC Ratings
KCC has paid tens of millions to adult social care suppliers whose linked services include CQC ratings of Requires Improvement or Inadequate. The question now is not who [...]
KCC Prayers Row: Reform’s Flag-Waving Won’t Fix Kent’s Failing Services
Kent County Council will now begin full council meetings with the Lord’s Prayer and end them with the national anthem. It will not, sadly, repair a single pothole, reduce [...]
Kent County Council Sits on £126m Developer Contributions as Schools and Roads Wait
Kent County Council’s latest available data shows more than £126m in developer contributions received or invoiced but not yet spent. Reform didn’t create the pile. But [...]
David Wimble Helicopter Gift: The Alcaline Flights, KCC Register and Looker Adverts
Cllr David Wimble’s KCC declaration says his September Alcaline Aviation helicopter lift was a gift. His Facebook trail points to three 2025 flights. Now The Looker, the [...]
Reform UK Runs Kent. KCC’s Oracle Cloud Bill Has Risen 134%
Kent County Council’s new finance system may be necessary. But with the bill now heading past £30m, the question is brutally simple: how is this saving the people of Kent [...]