Parents with children who are due to join a Kent primary, infant or junior school in September are reminded that the deadline for applications is Monday, 17 January. Every child born between 1 September 2017 and 31 August 2018 needs to be registered for a school place, along with those who are moving from infant…
A disabled children’s resource centre in Herne Bay was transformed into a winter wonderland, complete with ice rink and Santa’s Grotto. Children with disabilities used specially-adapted wheelchairs to skate on the ice, and there were fun push-along penguin ‘skate aids’ available for disabled children without wheelchairs to help them skate around the rink at Windchimes,…
Nearly 40,000 fewer adults in Kent are meeting government guidelines for physical activity than before the coronavirus pandemic. To help address this reduction, Kent Sport has announced a new fund to help groups and clubs with their efforts to increase public participation. The latest results from Sport England’s Active Lives Adults Survey, highlight the on-going…
The completion of Kent County Council’s fleet of new mobile libraries has coincided with a national award for the way they were produced and equipped. KCC now has five modern vehicles, touring the county to service residents who find it difficult to visit a conventional library building. The award came from the vehicle manufacturer Iveco…
With all of Kent’s 99 libraries reopened after adapting their services to cope with the impact of the pandemic, KCC is now looking to the future. It has launched a public engagement exercise which will help inform its next strategy and is encouraging as many people as possible to take part. The county’s residents are…
Kent County Council is launching a new voucher scheme to enable local businesses to put a new digital or technology solution in place to help with future growth. The Technology Resilience Voucher Scheme is part of the C-Care (Covid Channel Area Response Exchange) project which is funded by the EU Interreg France (Channel) England programme.…
As COP26, the climate-change summit in Glasgow, nears its conclusion, a new tree-planting initiative in Kent has been announced. Kent County Council, in partnership with Ashford and Swale Borough Councils, has been awarded £275,129 from the Local Authority Treescape Fund which will lead to the planting of more than 41,000 trees and saplings across those…
Playground, an exciting programme of creative play sessions for young children, has begun across Kent this month. The project is a partnership by Kent County Council with the University of Kent’s Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, and Artswork, the South East Bridge Organisation, and has been commissioned for KCC’s Reconnect Programme. The project is…
An eight-week consultation on KCC’s latest plans for protecting the county’s heritage is under way with residents and businesses encouraged to make their views known. Among the county’s historic features are one world heritage site (Canterbury), 352 scheduled monuments, 17,432 listed buildings, 503 conservation areas and 407 historic parks and gardens. The tourism industry is…
KCC’s Country Parks team is celebrating the news that eight of its parks – one more than previously – have been recognised with the prestigious Green Flag Award. Parks and green spaces across the country will today be raising their Green Flag Award with pride in a year when millions of people have seen the…
More than 1,400 Kent homes and businesses are to be given greater protection against flooding thanks to a scheme to increase reservoir capacity. KCC is helping to fund work at the Leigh Flood Storage Area, to be carried out by the Environment Agency following approval by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural…
KCC is celebrating national Libraries Week (4-10 October) by focusing on the innovative and surprising activities that libraries are undertaking to support the county’s communities. Libraries Week is an annual showcase and celebration of the best that libraries have to offer and this year’s theme is “Taking action, changing lives”. This celebrates the central role…