Kent County Council’s annual Corporate Parenting Christmas Appeal smashed its £20k target for 2022 raising almost £37k, which gave Kent Care Leavers a Christmas to remember. KCC’s Corporate Parenting team and The Young Lives Foundation reached out to corporate partners and businesses across Kent in December, to raise the funds needed to give each of…
Kent County Council’s Corporate Parenting Team and The Young Lives Foundation (YLF) are hoping to raise £20,000 this year to provide each of our 2,000 care leavers with a £10 gift and bring them some joy this Christmas. For many of our young care leavers aged 18-25 years, it’s their first Christmas on their own…
Foster carers and staff from across the county have been recognised for their exceptional contribution to the lives of the children they care for in their homes at the Kent Fostering Foster Carer Awards 2021. The event was held at Detling Showground on 13th October 2021 and was hosted by Kent County Council (KCC) Corporate…
Food vouchers will be provided for Kent families whose children are entitled to benefits-related Free School Meals this October half-term. Kent County Council has today (Thursday, October 14) announced it will fund one £15 food voucher per eligible child or young person, which can be used in supermarkets and local shops. KCC will fund the…
Clubs, community groups, schools, and early years settings are being invited to apply for funding to provide extra activities that will help children and young people reconnect to their pre-pandemic lives. The funding is being made available through the Kent County Council-led Reconnect: Kent Children and Young People programme and can be used for activities,…
The heat health alert for Kent has been ramped up, leading to advice for vulnerable residents such as the old, the very young, and people with chronic or severe illness who could be at extra risk. The level three warning means high temperatures have been reached and the sustained hot weather could lead to an…
Kent County Council has today committed £10m to its Reconnect: Kent Children and Young People Programme, an initiative that aims to recognise the selfless contribution the younger generation has made to help keep the county’s residents as safe as possible throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and to help them reconnect with aspects of their lives that…
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…
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 April school holidays, even if their child is in Years R, 1 or 2. The Government announced this month that it was extending the Covid…
Kent County Council is preparing to lead an ambitious community-based programme of activities, to help children and young people reconnect with their pre-Covid-19 lives. The Reconnect: Kent Children and Young People Programme will be available to every child and young person in Kent, from early years through to the end of secondary school and onto…
Kent care leavers embarked on a 229-mile virtual ‘Tour De Kent’ to raise money for the Young Lives Foundation. Members of Kent’s Young Adult Council and Virtual School Kent’s Participation Team took over County Hall with a cake sale and gym where they walked, cycled, rowed as they plotted their progress on a winding tour…