As Euro 2020 fever sweeps the county, Kent County Council (KCC) is urging fans, residents, and businesses to be extra vigilant for signs of domestic abuse and to help direct victims to support services. The ‘Show Domestic Abuse the Red Card’ campaign led by Kent County Council and involving all partners encourages residents, businesses, and…
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…
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…
Kent County Council (KCC) has welcomed the government’s landmark Domestic Abuse Act which gives victims and survivors of domestic abuse and their children greater protections under law. The new Act means that councils across England will have the legal duty to support adults and victims fleeing their homes in safe accommodation and supports access to…
Kent County Council (KCC) is backing the Fostering Network’s Foster Care Fortnight campaign (10-23 May), the UK’s biggest foster carer recruitment campaign. The council needs to recruit 120 new households to provide day-to-day support, love and stability to vulnerable children and young people who cannot live with their birth families or offer a struggling parent…
Following the success of Kent’s symptom free COVID-19 testing sites, which have now carried out almost 550,000 tests, residents can now pick up tests from 322 community pharmacies across the county, as well as ordering them online. With tests being so readily available, coupled with the decreasing case numbers in the county, some of the…
Kent County Council (KCC), with partners Porchlight and Look Ahead, have a message of hope for some of the county’s most vulnerable people this World Health Day. Kent Homeless Connect (KHC) has been designed by Kent County Council (KCC) for people experiencing homelessness, or at risk of being homeless, who also have complex needs such…
An exciting new digital crowdfunding drive is being launched in Kent to enable community-led ideas to become more vibrant, resilient and connected post-COVID19. Crowdfund Kent is a Kent County Council initiative, working in partnership with Spacehive, that will help community and voluntary organisations to raise money for projects that help their local area. Kent County…
Kent County Council’s 24-hour helpline is still available and ready to support Kent’s vulnerable people who need urgent help, supplies or medication. The Kent Together helpline provides a single, convenient point of contact for anyone in the county who is in urgent need of help during the Coronavirus outbreak. It is a collaboration between KCC,…
Over 2,000 rural homes and business are getting next generation, gigabit capable broadband due to investment from the Kent Top-Up Voucher Scheme and the Government’s Rural Gigabit Voucher Scheme. This builds upon the 95% of Kent properties that can already access an ultra-fast or superfast broadband connection. The scheme was launched to fund broadband improvements…
Kent Fostering, the largest and most experienced fostering agency in Kent are urgently seeking new foster carers. The need for foster carers in Kent is higher than ever, particularly due to the additional challenges and pressures on families coping with the pandemic. The number of children in need of either short term or longer-term foster…
Multi-agency efforts to provide people caught up in the cross-Channel traffic disruption in Kent with food, water and facilities is continuing over the Christmas period. On the M20, Kent County Council, with the help of Kent Resilience Forum (KRF) partners and organisations including the Salvation Army, aid agency Khalsa Aid and South East Water, continues…