Latest Kent County Council Media Releases
Community support services Live Well Kent and Kent Sheds are reminding residents of the help available as this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week (9-15 May) highlights loneliness. Live Well Kent is a network of community mental health and wellbeing support services, managed by charities Porchlight and Shaw Trust for KCC and the Kent and Medway…
After several years of planning and extensive renovation work, the new cultural hub in Tunbridge Wells, which includes KCC’s library and Adult Education Centre, has been officially opened. The Amelia Scott centre is named after the social reformer and campaigner for women’s suffrage who lived and worked in the town. The opening ceremony was performed…
Gardeners are being asked to leave their lawns uncut and join Kent County Council (KCC) in supporting No Mow May, allowing flowers to bloom and supporting bees and other pollinators. The campaign by Plantlife is being promoted by KCC’s Plan Bee team to help boost awareness of how wild plants can support habitats. The council…
KCC has responded firmly to recent criticism of its Special Educational Needs service. Stories based Information from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism followed an hour-long interview with some of the senior officers within the service and the Chair of the Kent Association of Headteachers. A KCC spokesman said: “It was a wide-ranging discussion in which…
Operation Brock will continue to remain in place as a precaution to manage the flow of freight traffic to the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel while cross-Channel ferry capacity remains reduced, the Kent Resilience Forum (KRF) partnership said today (Tuesday, 3 May). While one P&O ferry has now returned to service, no date has been…
The Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone celebrated its 10th birthday with a series of public events. Staff dressed in medieval costume provided tours of the archives and others assisted young visitors in a “charter-making workshop” and story-telling session. Mike Hill, KCC’s Cabinet Member for Community and Regulatory Services, oversaw the commissioning and construction…
The reputation of KCC’s No Use Empty scheme, bringing empty and derelict homes and commercial premises back into use, has led to a similar scheme being set up in Southend-on-Sea. With KCC’s help, the local authority there wants to bring between 10 and 15 empty buildings back into occupation across Southend, Basildon, Thurrock, Castle Point, Rochford…
Views are being sought on Kent County Council’s (KCC) proposal to end funding for the Kent Homeless Connect (KHC) service when the current contract ends. Following the approval of the council’s budget in February, it was proposed that, to meet the ongoing severe financial challenges the council is facing it could stop funding the discretionary…
Residents are being asked for their views on the new Kent and Medway Safeguarding Adults Board (KMSAB) Strategic Plan 2022-2025 which goes out to public consultation today (Tuesday). The KMSAB is a statutory, independently led multi-agency partnership which exists to make sure that all member agencies are working together to help keep Kent and Medway’s…
Operation Brock will remain in place to manage the flow of traffic to the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel until at least after the May Day Bank Holiday on Monday 2 May, Kent Resilience Forum (KRF) confirmed today. With cross channel capacity still down by a third following the ongoing suspension of P&O services, the…
Families in Kent will find out today which primary schools their children have been offered to join in September 2022, with nine out of ten being offered their first preference. The parents and carers of 17,592 children who applied for a place at a Kent school will receive their offers via email or online. Of…
Kent is open for business as traffic controls across the county’s road network have been further reduced as the risk of Easter getaway disruption eases, Kent Resilience Forum (KRF) leaders announced today. With light levels of freight now heading across the Channel, Operation Brock has been scaled back to ‘free-flow’, the lowest tier of control…