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• Scheme to cut congestion outside school gates piloted in Swale

  A scheme to cut congestion outside school gates is being piloted in Swale as schools returned this week after half term. It builds on the government’s drive to encourage more forms of active travel and the ‘build back greener’ push following the coronavirus pandemic. Kent County Council wants to help school children swap car journeys…

• Kent Leader is saddened to announce, “for the second time in a year, we have reached the limit of safe capacity for the care of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, and will take any action, including through the courts, to secure a fair and safe solution.”

  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…

• Sporting memories preserved as part of heritage and wellbeing project

  The sporting oral histories of people in East Kent have been captured and published as part of an award-winning heritage and wellbeing project. The book comprises the edited transcripts of the oral history recordings carried out by the project, which was created by Kent and Medway Active Partnership and supported by the National Lottery Heritage…