A scheme to cut congestion outside school gates is being piloted in Swale as schools returned this week after half term. It builds on the government’s drive to encourage more forms of active travel and the ‘build back greener’ push following the coronavirus pandemic. Kent County Council wants to help school children swap car journeys…
Kent County Council (KCC) Leader, Roger Gough and Sue Chandler, Cabinet Member for Integrated Children’s Services have announced that, despite ongoing efforts to work with the Home Office regarding the voluntary National Transfer Scheme (NTS) , KCC has again reached an unsafe capacity and will no longer be able to accept any further new UASC…
The sporting oral histories of people in East Kent have been captured and published as part of an award-winning heritage and wellbeing project. The book comprises the edited transcripts of the oral history recordings carried out by the project, which was created by Kent and Medway Active Partnership and supported by the National Lottery Heritage…
Kent is included in a major expansion of The British Library’s successful network of library-based Business & Intellectual Property Centres (BIPCs) which will involve more than100 regional and local libraries across England. Following last year’s pledge of £13 million in Treasury funding towards the expansion, KCC has been allocated £627,245 to equip the Kent History…
More than 6,000 people took part in the enhanced COVID-19 testing programme in parts of Canterbury in its first week. Now, with six more days of targeted testing in postcodes CT1 and CT2 7 to go, Kent County Council and Canterbury City Council want to thank everyone for their fantastic support so far – and…
Work on a new £2.5 million bus interchange in Gravesend will start this month. Kent County Council has revealed its plans to improve the transport connections between rail, bus and bike and link-in with the Rathmore Road scheme. The improvements in Barrack Row and Garrick Street include: four new bus stops in Barrack Row more…
As Kent’s services for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) reach breaking point for the second time in under a year, the council has warned that it may no longer be able to accept new UASC arrivals within days. KCC continues to urge a strong and mandatory National Transfer Scheme and has served a formal Letter Before…
Road sweepings collected in the county will now be processed and recycled in Kent. Kent County Council’s waste management team has awarded a contract to Thanet Waste Services Ltd to process and recycle waste that ends up on our streets and pavements. The waste will be treated at a site near Sandwich with 99% of…
A targeted enhanced testing programme is being rolled out across the ME14 1 area of Maidstone in response to confirmation of a number of cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19. Those living or working in the ME14 1 postcode and anyone who has attended the Quaker Meeting House on Union Street, Maidstone, within the…
Today marks the start of Pride Month and to mark the occasion, KCC is flying the Rainbow Flag at County Hall in Maidstone. The Chairman of Kent County Council, Ann Allen MBE said: “I am proud that Kent County Council is once again showing our support to the LGBTQ+ community by flying the Pride Flag…
A targeted two-week enhanced testing programme is being rolled out across two postcodes in the Canterbury area in response to confirmation of a number of cases of the B.1.617.2 Indian variant strain of COVID-19 – now named the ‘Delta variant’ by the World Health Organization Anyone living, working or studying in all CT1 postcodes and…
From delivering shopping to clinically vulnerable residents required to shield, to having a socially-distanced doorstep catch-up with someone feeling isolated and anxious in lockdown, volunteers have been unsung heroes of Kent’s response to the pandemic over the past year. Now Kent County Council is taking time in national Volunteers’ Week to say a heartfelt ‘thank…
Kent County Council has been recognised at a national level for its work in supporting sustainable and clean growth. The Low Carbon Kent team, chiefly through the Low Carbon Across the South East (LoCASE) Project, was unanimously voted winners of the Delivering Clean Growth category at the President of the Association of Directors of Environment,…
The new Chairman of Kent County Council has been passed the chain of office at the annual County Council meeting today (Thursday). Ann Allen, who takes over from Graham Gibbens, will already be familiar with all that the role entails as she was previously Chairman for 2019-20. Mr Gibbens took over from Mrs Allen as…
Parents and carers whose children may be eligible to receive Free School Meals due to the family’s financial circumstances are being urged to apply for them ahead of the upcoming May school holidays, even if their child is in Years R, 1 or 2. The Government announced this month that it was extending its grant…
Over the past two weeks there has been an increased number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus. Numbers of confirmed cases remain low and the public should be reassured that, as with any suspected outbreak, KCC is working quickly and closely with PHE, the University and other partners to…
Kent’s interim Director of Public Health, Allison Duggal, has praised residents in the county for continuing to test themselves regularly for COVID-19 and supporting the county’s road map out of lockdown. Home testing kits are now widely available at hundreds of pharmacies and workplaces across Kent and can also be ordered online and delivered to…
