This National Adoption Week (Oct 14-20), Kent County Council (KCC) is highlighting the urgent need to find adoptive families to ensure children get the love and care they need. This year, KCC is focusing on children who due to their needs are more difficult to find families for. The council is seeking to find adoptive…
Kent County Council (KCC) is seeking people’s views on the future of community-based wellbeing services for older people, adults living with dementia, physical disabilities or sensory impairments. The council spends £5.9m on these services each year, across 52 voluntary and community organisations. This funds befriending, volunteer-run transport schemes, dementia cafés, support services for people with…
Kent County Council (KCC) has launched an eight–week consultation about the future of services for older people at Minnis Community Hub. KCC has been exploring the way forward for the day service at Minnis Community Hub and now seeks the views of service users on the future of services that are delivered at the centre.…
“Thank you social services and government for your help and care. I never believed I would be loved. There is now a big rainbow in my life instead of darkness.” Those are the words of a young victim of people trafficking who has written a heart-warming letter thanking his foster carer and social workers for…
The latest annual report from Kent County Council’s (KCC) fostering service shows continued improvements to the support available to foster carers and children in care. Despite nationwide challenges in foster care recruitment, KCC recruited 78 new carers last year and improved on the average time it takes new carers to go through the approval process,…
A Kent County Council employee has won a national award for his plan to tackle the educational impact of child poverty during the school summer holidays. Rob Comber, a Service Development Manager in the council’s Children, Young People and Education directorate, was crowned winner of the 10th annual LGA (Local Government Association) Local Government Challenge…
People looking after a child they are not related to or who know someone who is are urged to contact Kent County Council (KCC) this Private Fostering Week (July 8 – 14). Private fostering arrangements are when people look after children or teenagers under 18 full-time for 28 days or more and who are not…
Kent County Council’s stand, number 348, will be focusing on Kent’s Year of Green Action at this year’s County Show. Kent County Council will once again be at the Kent County Show next month (July) focusing on Kent’s Year of Green Action. The County Show is held at the Detling Showground, Maidstone on July 5,…
Young refugees and asylum seekers have created an art exhibition inspired by their journeys to Kent and hopes for the future. The project was launched at Turner Contemporary in Margate to mark Refugee Week before being put on a show at libraries across the county. The collection features 20 paintings, drawings, sculptures and murals by…
Kent County Council (KCC) is looking to recruit 150 new foster carers to provide loving homes to vulnerable children in the county. The council is backing the national recruitment campaign Foster Care Fortnight 2019 (May 13 – 26) and calling on residents to get in touch to find out how they can change a child’s…
Kent has secured £1.3m from the Government’s Supporting Families Against Youth Crime Fund to help prevent young people becoming involved in gangs and youth violence. The award will enable a partnership of Kent County Council (KCC), Medway Council, Kent Police, Met Police and the Kent Police and Crime Commissioner to deliver a collaborative two-year project…
Foster carers and staff from across Kent have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to the lives of the county’s children. More than 120 people were nominated for this year’s Kent County Council’s (KCC) Fostering Appreciation Awards at Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone. Children, social workers and other foster carers put forward recommendations to a…