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        • School age
        • Choosing a school
        • Special educational needs
        • After you get your school offer
        • Appeal a school offer
          • Appeal a primary school offer
          • Appeal a secondary school offer
          • Appeal an in-year offer
          • Education health and care (EHC) plans
      • Find a school
      • Term dates
      • School attendance
        • School absences
          • Pay a school penalty notice
        • Pay a school penalty notice
        • Exclusion and suspension
        • Bullying
        • Children with long-term illness
        • School age parents
        • Child employment
        • Children who perform
        • Children missing education
      • School transport
        • Council funded school transport
          • Eligibility for council funded school transport
            • Council funded school transport for low income families
          • Apply or renew your council funded school transport
          • Using and looking after your pass
          • School transport appeals
        • KCC Travel Saver
          • Apply for a KCC Travel Saver
            • Cost of KCC Travel Saver
          • Your KCC Travel Saver
          • Manage your KCC Travel Saver
          • Collecting your KCC Travel Saver
        • School transport for children and young people with special educational needs
          • Council funded school transport
          • Personal transport budgets
            • Personal Transport Budget parental agreement terms and conditions
          • KCC Travel Saver
          • Post 16 transport options for SEND young people
            • Apply for post 16 transport assistance
          • Travel training
            • How the training works
            • Eligibility and how to apply
            • After the training
            • Comments on the training
          • Travel Passport
          • Post 16 transport policies
          • Changes to the school transport service for children and young people with SEND
        • KCC 16+ Travel Saver
          • Apply for a KCC 16+ Travel Saver
            • Cost of KCC 16+ Travel Saver
          • Your KCC 16+ Travel Saver
          • Manage your KCC 16+ Travel Saver
          • Collecting your KCC 16+ Travel Saver
        • Plan your journey
        • Vacant Seats Payment Scheme
        • Set up a walking bus
        • 16 - 17 Train Saver card
      • Free school meals
        • Apply for free school meals
        • Application support
        • Change of circumstances
        • Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF)
      • Emergency school closures
      • School age
        • Summer born children
      • School uniform
      • School consultations
      • School governors
        • The governing body
        • Become a school governor
        • Become a clerk
        • Support for governors and clerks
      • School complaints
      • Education provision
        • Provision of new schools
        • Commissioning Plan for Education Provision
        • Provision of additional school places and specialist provision
        • Department of Education notices
      • The Education People
    • Childcare and pre-school
      • Find childcare
      • Information for childcare providers
        • Become a childcare provider
        • Find work as a childcare provider
        • Running your childcare business
          • Tax-Free Childcare provider information
        • Log in as a childcare provider
      • Support for SEND child in early years
      • Our childcare advice line
      • Help with childcare costs
        • Free for 2 (families receiving additional forms of government support)
          • Parents' guide to Free for 2 funding
            • Choose a childcare provider
            • How to use your Free for 2 childcare funding
            • Additional costs you may have to pay
            • Support for children with special educational needs and disabilities
            • Contact us
        • Working Parent Entitlement for children from 9 months old
          • Parents' guide to Working Parent Entitlement for 9-to-35-month-olds
            • Eligibility for Working Parent Entitlement for 9-to-35-month-olds
            • Apply for Working Parent Entitlement for 9-to-35-month-olds
            • Reconfirm your eligibility for Working Parent Entitlement for 9-to-35-month-olds
            • How to use your Working Parent Entitlement for 9-to-35-month-olds entitlement
            • Additional costs you may have to pay
            • Contact us
        • Universal Entitlement (15 hours)
          • Parents' guide to 15 (universal) hours of free childcare
            • Choose a childcare provider
            • How to use your 15 (universal) hours of free childcare entitlement
            • Additional costs you may have to pay
            • Contact us
        • Working Parent Entitlement for 3 and 4 year olds (30 hours)
          • Parents' guide to 30 hours of free childcare
            • Eligibility for 30 hours of free childcare
            • Apply for 30 hours of free childcare
            • Reconfirm your eligibility for 30 hours of free childcare
            • Choose a childcare provider
            • How to use your 30 hours of free childcare entitlement
            • Additional costs you may have to pay
            • Contact us
            • Foster carer guide to claiming 30 hours of free childcare
      • Tax-Free Childcare
    • Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
      • Contact the SEND Enquiries Hub
        • SEND teams and their roles
      • I think my child might need some help at nursery, school or post 16
        • Talking to your education setting about special educational needs
      • Types of special educational needs
        • Autism (ASC) support
          • Understanding autism
          • Supporting your autistic child or young person at home
          • Autism and ADHD assessment support
          • Autism and education
          • Autism and girls
          • Autism and your child or young person's health
          • Activities and groups for autistic children and young people
          • LGBTQ+ support for autistic young people
          • Support for autistic adults
        • Speech, language, and communication needs
        • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
          • Understanding ADHD
          • Autism and ADHD diagnosis support
          • Activities and groups
          • What to do if you think your child has SEND
          • Support from your child's school
          • Your rights
        • Specific learning difficulties
        • Physical disabilities
        • Social and emotional mental health needs
        • Sensory services
          • Sensory impairment support for children and young people
            • Hearing impairment support from STLS
            • Vision impairment support from STLS
            • Multi-sensory impairment support from STLS
            • Request sensory impairment support from STLS
          • Social care support for Deaf, blind or deafblind children
          • Health
          • Sensory processing disorder
          • Interpreting services
          • Independence skills for blind 0-25 year olds
        • What is special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)?
      • Support for children under 5 with SEND
        • Childcare and pre-school
        • Support for children with SEND in early years
        • Portage - supporting pre-school children with SEND
        • Moving from early years to primary school
          • Helping your child start school
        • Kent Family Hubs
        • Best practice guidance for early years settings
        • Support for SEND professionals
      • School aged children
        • SEND support in schools
        • School options for your SEND child
          • Choose a school for your child with SEND
          • Find special schools and schools with specialist resource provision
            • Special schools
              • About special schools
              • Autism spectrum condition special schools
              • Behaviour and learning needs special schools
              • Behaviour needs special schools
              • Physical disabilities special schools
              • Profound, severe, and complex needs special schools
              • Speech, language, and communication needs special schools
            • Schools with specialist resource provision
              • About specialist resource provisions
              • Autism spectrum condition specialist resource provisions
              • Cognition and learning specialist resource provisions
              • Hearing impairment specialist resource provisions
              • Physical disabilities specialist resource provisions
              • Profound, severe and complex needs specialist resource provisions
              • Speech, language, and communication needs specialist resource provisions
              • Specific learning difficulties specialist resource provisions
              • Visual impairment specialist resource provisions
            • Independent schools and colleges
            • Satellite provisions
          • Questions to ask when choosing an education setting
          • Kent Test
          • Educating your child at home
          • Children missing education
          • School attendance
        • School transport for children and young people with special educational needs
        • Year 9 support
          • Year 9 annual reviews
          • GCSE help
          • Year 9 specialist school or college
          • Junior colleges
        • SEND Mainstream Core Standards
        • Moving from primary to secondary school
        • Moving from secondary to post 16 education settings
        • Support for SEND professionals
          • SEND funding for early year providers
          • Early years identification and notification
      • Support for young people with special educational needs and disabilities
        • Education for young people with SEND
          • Higher education
          • Mainstream colleges and sixth forms for young people with SEND
          • Specialist colleges and training providers
          • SEND support in further education
        • Employment for young people with SEND
          • Your job options
            • Apprenticeships and supported apprenticeships for SEND young people
            • Supported internships
            • Finding a job as a SEND young person
            • Connect to Work
          • Applying for a job
          • Your workplace rights
          • Supported Employment Service
            • Alex's supported employment journey
            • Gaby's supported employment journey
            • Kyle's supported employment journey
            • Anna's supported employment journey
          • Access to Work scheme
        • Help with adult life
          • Becoming an adult
            • Friendships support for young people
            • LGBTQ+ support for young people
          • Managing your money
          • Benefits for over 16s
          • Moving out
            • Paying for your home
            • Types of home
            • Changing your home to suit your needs
            • Looking after your home and learning to cook
          • Your personal safety
          • Getting around independently
          • Kent Care Leavers
        • Days out and activities for SEND children and young people
        • Health services for young people with SEND
        • Community inclusion with SEND
          • Support for children and young people released from custody
          • Get involved in your council
        • Preparation for adulthood core standards
      • Support for parents with SEND children
        • Parent support groups and services
        • Money support for disabled children and young people
          • Support from us
          • Benefits for under 16 year olds
          • Benefits for over 16 year olds
          • Benefits for 0 to 25 year olds
          • Managing your money
        • Days out and activities for SEND children and young people
        • Your rights for you and your family
        • Mental health
        • Training opportunities for SEND parents and carers
        • Support for siblings
        • Our improvement plan for SEND children and young people
        • SEND Information, Advice and Guidance Offer
      • Social care support for your child or young person
        • Request social care support for your child or young person
        • Equipment and changes in your home for your child or young person
        • Report child abuse
        • A break from caring
        • Disabled Children Register
        • MASHs
          • Green Banks - Thanet MASH
          • Orchards Centre - Swale MASH
          • Folkestone MASH - Beacon
          • Rainbow Centre - Ashford MASH
        • Children in care
      • Health and wellbeing support for children and young people with SEND
        • Types of special educational needs
        • Everyday health services
        • Health services for young people with SEND
          • Transition to adulthood
          • Drug and alcohol support
          • Mental health support for children and young people
          • Annual health checks
          • Young parents
          • Sexual health
          • Smoking and young people
          • Health and wellbeing support for children and young people with SEND
        • Mental health support for children and young people
        • Therapy and health services
          • Targeted health services
          • Specialist health services
          • The Pod
        • Physical health for SEND children and young people
        • Healthcare plans
        • Health rights for SEND children and young people
        • Changing Places toilets
        • Annual health checks
      • Your rights for you and your family
        • Rights and policies for SEND parents
        • Health rights for SEND children and young people
        • Employment rights for your SEND young person
        • Education rights for SEND children and young people
        • SEND strategies and policies
        • The Equality Act
      • Listening to your voice and taking action
        • Share your views about the SEND service
        • SEND newsletter
        • Send Information, Advice and Guidance Offer
        • SEND strategies and policies
        • SEND Ofsted and CQC inspections
          • SEND Ofsted and CQC 2019 inspection
          • SEND Your voice questionnaire
        • Contact the SEND Enquiries Hub
        • Working with SEND professionals
          • Working together with partners
      • SEND strategies and policies
    • Kent Family Hub
      • Your local family hub
      • Activities and groups near you
        • Activities in family hubs
          • Ashford family hubs
          • Canterbury family hubs
          • Dartford family hubs
          • Dover family hubs
          • Folkestone and Hythe family hubs
          • Gravesham family hubs
          • Maidstone family hubs
          • Sevenoaks family hubs
          • Swale family hubs
          • Thanet family hubs
          • Tonbridge and Malling family hubs
          • Tunbridge Wells family hubs
        • Courses available in family hubs
          • Baby, Family and You courses
          • Baby Massage courses
          • Compass courses
          • Healing Together courses
          • Little Talkers courses
          • The Communication Tree courses
          • Making it Real courses
        • Local activities for children and young people
        • SEND activities and events
        • Clubs and activities in libraries
        • Playground creative activities
        • Events and activities at Kent Country Parks
      • Extra support for your child
        • I think my child might need some help at nursery, school or post 16
        • Types of special educational needs
        • Sensory impairment support for children and young people
      • Pregnancy and the first two years
        • Pregnancy
          • Talking to your bump during pregnancy
          • Becoming a dad
        • Baby
          • Register a birth
          • Health visiting
          • Feeding your baby
            • Help to buy food, milk and vitamins
          • Find childcare
          • Baby rhyme time
          • Talking to your newborn
        • Toddler
          • Vaccinations for children
          • Health visiting
          • Activities for toddlers
          • Support for children with SEND in early years
          • Childcare and pre-school
          • Bookstart for families
      • Help your child develop and learn
        • Help develop your child's speech and language
          • Talking to your bump during pregnancy
          • Talking to your newborn
          • Talking to your baby up to 6 months old
          • Talking to your baby between 6 and 9 months old
          • Talking to your baby up to 1 year old
          • Talking to your toddler between 1 and 3 years old
          • Talking to your child between 3 and 5 years old
          • Child speech, language and communication resources
        • Advice on managing your child's behaviour
          • Setting boundaries for your child
          • Dealing with tantrums
        • Learning at home with Kent Libraries
        • Schools
        • Download the EasyPeasy app
        • Family Learning
      • Mental health and family relationships
        • Looking after your mental health
        • Mental health helpline for parents to be, new parents and new baby
        • Mental health support for children and young people
        • Early Help (for families)
        • Reducing arguments and conflict between parents
          • Strengthening Family Relationships
        • Becoming a dad
          • Preparing for fatherhood
          • Helping the baby's mum prepare for labour
          • Getting used to being a dad
          • Caring for yourself as a dad
          • Managing relationships as a dad
        • Support for separated parents
        • Single parents
        • Caring for somebody else's child
      • Keep your family healthy
        • Choose a healthier lifestyle
        • Vaccinations for children
        • Quit smoking
        • Cut back on alcohol
        • Sexual health
        • Healthier families
      • Young people
        • Mental health support for children and young people
        • College, sixth form, employment and training
        • Your personal safety
          • Safety Pin
        • Support for young people with SEND
        • Local activities for children and young people
        • Kent Youth Voice
        • Sexual health
        • Young parents
          • Young people who become pregnant
          • Support for young people with a baby
        • Urgent help and support for young people
      • Support with day to day living
        • Cost of living support
        • Childcare and pre-school
        • Help to buy food, milk and vitamins
        • Council funded school transport
        • Housing help from your district council
        • Free school meals
        • Short courses for employment
        • Find a food bank
      • Keep your family safe
        • Report child abuse
        • Online safety for your family
        • Bullying
        • Scams
        • Personal safety for young people
        • Domestic abuse support
        • Alcohol and drug support
        • Signs and symptoms of child abuse
      • Shape how we support local families
        • Parent Carer Panel
        • Parent Carer Voice
        • Kent Youth Voice
        • Volunteer with Family Hub
        • Volunteer with children, young people and families
        • Volunteer in libraries and archives
      • About Kent Family Hub
        • Working with families
    • Post 16 options
      • Explore your choices
      • Apply for a course
      • Open days
      • Help if you have SEND
      • Junior colleges
      • Young people in care
      • Replacement exam certificate
      • Kent 16 to 19 Review - Pathways For All
    • Educating your child at home
      • Our home education policy
      • Our guide to elective home education
        • Before educating your child at home
          • Home education case study - Child F
          • Home education case study - Child J
        • Letting the school know
        • What to teach your child at home
        • Exams
        • Going back to school
        • College, employment and training
        • How we can help you
      • Resources to help you home educate
        • Resources for all
        • Primary school children
        • Secondary school children
        • Post 16
        • Special educational needs children
    • Early Help (support for families)
    • Activities outside school
      • Outdoor education centres
      • Child employment
      • Children in entertainment
        • Body of Persons Approval (BOPA)
        • Chaperone licence
        • Performance licence and extension
      • Events at Kent Country Parks
      • Hardelot Centre
        • Arranging your visit
        • Accommodation and on-site facilities
        • Your stay
        • Health and safety
    • Youth justice - support for children who have come to the attention of the police and victims of crime
      • Victims of crimes committed by children
      • Support for children who have come to the attention of the police
      • Going to a youth court
      • Restorative justice and reparation for children
      • Understand your criminal record
      • Out of court orders and sentences for children
    • Protecting children
      • Report a child safeguarding concern
      • Online safety for your family
      • Bullying
      • Early Help (support for families)
      • Child Protection conferences
      • Kent Safeguarding Children Multi-Agency Partnership
      • Family Group Conferences
      • Reception centres for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
        • Resident communication about the reception centres for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
      • How to raise an adult safeguarding concern about yourself or someone else
    • Adoption, fostering and supported homes
      • Adoption
        • Adopt a child
        • Birth families and adoption records
        • Having your child adopted
      • Fostering
        • Foster a child
        • Private fostering
      • Supported homes
    • Children in care
      • Having your child adopted
      • If your child is taken into care
      • Protecting children
      • Virtual School Kent
      • Kent Cares Town
      • Process for other local authorities placing a child in Kent
      • Connect with family through Lifelong Links service
      • Family Group Conferences
      • Care leavers local offer
    • Kent Resilience Hub
    • Children services Ofsted inspection report
    • Skills4Life
    • Adult education
  • Leisure and community
    • Libraries
      • Log in to your library account
      • Visiting a library
        • Find your nearest library
        • Mobile libraries
        • Virtual library tours
          • Ashford Library virtual tour
          • Bearsted Library virtual tour
          • Birchington Library virtual tour
          • Broadstairs Library virtual tour
          • Canterbury Library virtual tour
          • Cliftonville Library virtual tour
          • Cranbrook Library virtual tour
          • Dartford Library virtual tour
          • Deal Library virtual tour
          • Edenbridge Library virtual tour
          • Faversham Library virtual tour
          • Gravesend Library virtual tour
          • Herne Bay Library virtual tour
          • Hythe Library virtual tour
          • Kent History and Library Centre virtual tour
          • Larkfield Library virtual tour
          • Lyminge Library virtual tour
          • Margate Library virtual tour
          • Ramsgate Library virtual tour
          • Sandwich Library virtual tour
          • Sevenoaks Library virtual tour
          • Sheerness Library virtual tour
          • Sittingbourne Library virtual tour
          • Staplehurst Library virtual tour
          • Swanley Library virtual tour
          • Tenterden Library virtual tour
          • Tonbridge Library virtual tour
          • Westgate Library virtual tour
          • Whitstable Library virtual tour
          • Wood Avenue Library virtual tour
          • Wye Library virtual tour
      • eLibrary
      • Join and borrow library items
        • Join, library cards and PIN
          • Library Extra
          • Concessionary library card
        • Renew a book
        • Find and reserve a book
        • Library charges
          • Library borrowing charges
          • Library late charges
          • Photocopying and printing charges at libraries
          • Lost or damaged library charges
          • Music and drama set charges
        • Mobile libraries
        • Library services: disabled people, older people and carers
          • Audiobooks by post for the blind and partially sighted
          • Home Library Service
            • Volunteer for the Home Library Service
          • Delivery for care homes, hospitals and day centres
        • Music and drama sets
          • Register your music and drama society
          • Our music and drama set collections
          • Return or renew your music and drama set
          • Music and drama set charges
          • Terms and conditions for hiring music and drama sets
        • Bookstart - getting children reading
      • Free computers and Wi-Fi
        • Book a computer online
        • Library computers and Wi-Fi
        • Help using computers
        • Online safety for your family
        • Reference and research business resources
        • Free computer courses
      • Library services direct to you
      • Learning, reference and research
        • Reference and research
          • Family and local history reference and research help
          • Newspapers, magazines and journals reference and research help
          • Homework reference and research help
          • Learning and career reference and research help
          • History and social sciences reference and research help
          • Dictionaries and general reference help
          • Consumer and legal information reference and research help
          • Arts and music reference and research help
          • Health and wellbeing reference and research help
          • Business reference and research help
          • Statistical reference and research help
          • A to Z of reference and research help
        • Home learning resources
        • Ask a Kent Librarian
        • Free computer courses
        • Kent archives and local history
      • Clubs and activities in libraries
        • Search all library activities
        • Baby rhyme time
        • Storytime for 3 to 4 year olds
        • Group activities
        • Reading groups
        • Playground creative activities
        • Homework clubs
        • Volunteer in libraries and archives
        • Clubs and community groups
        • Summer Reading Challenge
        • Activities for young people
      • Volunteer in libraries and archives
    • Cost of living support
      • Urgent financial help and extra support
        • Household Support Fund
          • Eligibility for Household Support Fund
          • Apply or appeal a decision
          • Receiving and using your voucher
          • Other support available
        • Food or energy in a crisis
          • Eligibility for food or energy support in a crisis
          • Apply or appeal a decision
          • Other support available
          • Find a food bank
      • Household energy
        • Save money on energy bills
          • Save money on energy through home improvements
        • Save water
          • Save money by saving water
          • Support from your water company
        • Home energy efficiency grants
        • Support to reduce your energy bills
        • Solar Together Kent
      • Check benefits eligibility
      • Find help and support to help with money worries
        • Pension Credit
      • Our services helping you with cost of living support
      • Professional referrals to help with financial hardship
        • BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme
        • ReferKent - for organisations who support Kent residents
        • Money Advice Network
        • Money Guiders Programme
    • Kent Country Parks
      • Find a Kent Country Park
        • Brockhill Country Park
          • Location and opening times for Brockhill Country Park
            • Parking at Brockhill Country Park
          • Things to do at Brockhill Country Park
            • Walking trails at Brockhill Country Park
          • Visitor facilities and food at Brockhill Country Park
          • Getting around Brockhill Country Park
            • Access at Brockhill Country Park
        • Grove Ferry Picnic Site
          • About Grove Ferry Picnic Site
            • Access at Grove Ferry Picnic Site
            • Location and opening times for Grove Ferry Picnic Site
              • Parking at Grove Ferry Picnic Site
        • Lullingstone Country Park
          • Things to do at Lullingstone Country Park
            • Walking trails at Lullingstone Country Parks
          • Visitor facilities and food at Lullingstone Country Park
          • Getting around Lullingstone Country Park
            • Access at Lullingstone Country Park
          • Location and opening times for Lullingstone Country Park
            • Parking at Lullingstone Country Park
        • Manor Park Country Park
          • Things to do at Manor Park Country Park
            • Walking at Manor Park
          • Visitor facilities and food at Manor Park Country Park
          • Getting around Manor Park Country Park
            • Access at Manor Park Country Park
        • Pegwell Bay Country Park
        • Shorne Woods Country Park
          • Location and opening times for Shorne Woods Country Park
            • Parking at Shorne Woods Country Park
          • Things to do at Shorne Woods Country Park
            • Walking trails at Shorne Woods Country Park
            • Get fit at Shorne Woods Country Park
          • Visitor facilities and food at Shorne Woods Country Park
            • Eat and drink at Shorne Woods
            • The Shorne Woods Country Park shop
          • Getting around Shorne Woods Country Park
            • Access at Shorne Woods Country Park
        • Teston Bridge Country Park
        • Trosley Country Park
          • Location and opening times for Trosley Country Park
            • Parking at Trosley Country Park
          • Things to do at Trosley Country Park
            • Walking trails at Trosley Country Park
          • Visitor facilities and food at Trosley Country Park
          • Getting around Trosley Country Park
            • Access at Trosley Country Park
        • White Horse Wood Country Park
      • Events and activities at Kent Country Parks
      • Parking season tickets
      • Venue hire at Kent Country Parks
        • Venue hire at Shorne Woods Country Park
          • Chestnut Room specification and dimensions
        • Venue hire at Lullingstone Country Park
          • Orchid Room specification and dimensions
        • Venue hire at Brockhill Country Park
          • Badger Room specification and dimensions
        • Venue hire at Trosley Country Park
          • Hamilton Room specification and dimensions
        • Catering options
      • Team building
        • Team building activities
      • Outdoor learning with Kent Country Parks
        • School visits
          • Wild Weather packages
            • Water Water Everywhere!
            • Mud Island
            • Intrepid Explorers: The Wild Weather Expedition
          • Natural play
          • Exploring senses
          • Hidden Habitats
          • Pond Pioneers
          • Art Naturally
          • Eco Challenge
          • River Study
          • River Rangers
          • Investigate the Water Cycle
          • Teddy’s Woodland Adventure
          • Maths Naturally
          • Love Literacy Outdoors
          • Wayfinding
          • Junior Team Building
          • Early Settlers
        • Forest school
          • Forest School programme
          • Forest School training
        • Qualifications and courses
        • Team building for students
        • Locations and planning your visit
    • Volunteering
      • Find volunteering opportunities
      • Benefits of volunteering with us
      • Volunteer with children, young people and families
        • Volunteer in special educational needs
        • Supporting reading
        • Virtual volunteer as an education appeal panel member
        • Volunteer with youth justice
        • Volunteer with Family Hub
      • Countryside volunteering
        • Kent Countryside Access Forum
        • Countryside Access Wardens
        • Volunteer with a Countryside Management Partnership
        • Volunteer as a Tree Warden
      • Digital Champion Network volunteers
      • Healthy Start Champion
      • Heritage volunteering
      • Kent Greeters
      • Volunteer in libraries and archives
      • School governors
      • Volunteer in sports
      • Join Neighbourhood Watch
    • Community grants and funding
      • Our current funding opportunities
        • Capital sports grant
        • Combined Members Grant
        • Community transport grant
        • EU funding
        • Hugh and Montague Leney (Travelling) Awards Trust
        • The Straits Committee Small Project Initiative
        • Village and Community Hall Grant Scheme
      • Help and advice for community grants and funding
        • Inside Track newsletter
      • Other sources of funding
        • Crowdfund Kent
      • Our closed funding opportunities
        • Antenatal contact grants
        • Arts Investment Fund
        • Start For Life funded breastfeeding grants
        • Historic treescapes grant
        • Infant Feeding Peer Support Group Grant
        • Kent and Medway Suicide Prevention Hope Fund 2025
        • Kent and Medway Better Mental Health and Wellbeing Community Fund
        • Kent Stop Smoking Service Support Grant 2024 to 2025
        • Perinatal mental health peer support groups for expectant or new mothers
        • Perinatal mental health and parent-infant relationship support grants
        • Short breaks for disabled children grants
        • Talents and Interests grant scheme
    • Community safety
      • Community wardens
        • Contact your community warden
          • Ashford and Swale community wardens
          • Canterbury and Thanet community wardens
          • Dartford and Gravesham community wardens
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        • Join Neighbourhood Watch
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        • Know, See, Speak Out
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        • Resolving a dispute with a trader
          • Who can apply for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
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        • Buying goods and services
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        • Find a safe trader
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    • Gypsies and Travellers
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      • Landowner responsibilities - Gypsies and Travellers
    • History and heritage
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        • Volunteer with us
      • South East Research Framework
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    • Arts
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    • Supporting armed forces
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            • Tell us your Ukrainian guests have arrived
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      • Hong Kong UK Welcome Programme
    • Get active
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      • Active Kent & Medway
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      • Highways fees and charges
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        • Photographic highway condition survey
    • Travelling around Kent
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            • Disabled parking spaces
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        • Kent traffic information
        • Check before you travel
        • Electric vehicles
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      • Bus travel
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          • Set up a community transport scheme
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      • Kentjourneyshare
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    • What we look after
      • Roads
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        • Road adoption
        • Work on the highway
      • Soft landscape maintenance
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          • How we look after grass
          • When we cut grass
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          • How you can help us
        • Weeds
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          • How we look after trees
          • Planting new trees
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        • Overhanging vegetation
        • Shrubs and hedges
          • How we look after shrubs and hedges
          • How you can help us
          • Change the verge outside your property
        • Litter and leaves on pavements
        • Off-road cycle routes
        • Parish and town council verge maintenance
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        • Report a problem on a road or pavement
        • Highway drainage systems
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      • Bridges and structures
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      • Winter service on our roads
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        • Check before you travel
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        • How to clear snow and ice
        • Report a problem
    • School transport
    • Road safety
      • Making roads safe
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      • Driver education courses
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          • About the National Speed Awareness Course
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          • Our venues
        • Safe and Considerate Driving (SCD)
          • About the Safe and Considerate Driving Course
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        • What’s Driving Us Course (WDU)
          • About the What's Driving Us Course
          • Book a What's Driving Us Course
          • Attending a What's Driving Us Course
          • Our venues
        • National Motorway Awareness Course (NMAC)
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          • Book a National Motorway Awareness Course
          • Attending a National Motorway Awareness Course
          • Our venues
        • National Rider Risk Awareness Course (NRRAC)
          • About the National Rider Risk Awareness Course
          • Book a National Rider Risk Awareness Course
          • Attending a National Rider Risk Awareness Course
      • Road safety campaigns
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        • Pass plus
        • Driver education courses
        • HASTE driver training course
        • Minibus driver training
        • Cycle training
          • Cycle training for adults
          • Cycle training for children (Bikeability)
          • Work for us in cycle training
          • Cycle instructor training
      • School crossing patrols
      • Crash and casualty data
      • Traffic survey data
      • Vision Zero Road Safety Strategy
        • Vision Zero consultation
      • Kent and Medway Safety Camera Partnership
      • The Highway Code
    • Road projects
      • Planned road projects
        • A28 Chart Road improvement scheme
        • A28 North Thanet Link
        • A229 Blue Bell Hill
        • Bean Road Tunnel Fastrack Scheme
        • Keep Maidstone Moving
          • Wheatsheaf junction
          • Cripple Street and Boughton Lane
          • Ashford Road junction with Willington Street
          • Sutton Road junction with Willington Street
        • Sturry link road
        • Other roadworks
      • In progress road projects
        • A249 Bearsted Road improvement scheme
        • A249 Grovehurst Road and interchange junction
        • A249 Key Street junction
        • Dartford town centre improvements
        • Folkestone - A Brighter Future
        • Galley Hill Road
        • Green Corridors Programme
        • Kent Street
        • Pencester Road
        • Road of Remembrance, Folkestone
        • Other roadworks
      • Completed road projects
        • Armstrong Road, Park Way and Sheal's Crescent
        • Bath Street Fastrack bus lane
        • Cheriton Road cycle route
        • Cinque Ports Phase 5 Shared Use Foot and Cycleway
        • Coldharbour Roundabout
        • Dover Fastrack
        • Emergency Active Travel Fund Schemes
          • Dover parklets
          • Faversham 20mph limit
          • Tonbridge 20mph zone
          • Benefits of 20mph limit schemes
        • Faversham Cross Town Walking Route
        • Gravesend bus hub
        • Herne Bay Railway Station to Central Parade
        • Kent Thameside Local Sustainable Transport Fund - Integrated door-to-door journeys
        • Kent Thameside Smart Transport
        • Kent and Medway Engineering Design Growth and Enterprise Hub (EDGE)
        • Littlebourne to Canterbury city centre
        • Rennie Drive Fastrack junction improvement and southbound bus lane
        • St Clements Way Greenhithe improvement scheme
        • Sevenoaks east to west Active Travel
        • Teston Bridge - Maidstone
        • Thanet Parkway Railway Station
  • Jobs
  • Social care and health
    • Adult social care
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        • How to get adult social care support
          • What happens during an adult social care needs assessment
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        • Manage your own care and wellbeing
        • Live safe and well at home
          • Search for help at home
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              • Who to contact about your equipment
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        • Caring for other people
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          • Supporting working carers
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            • About our Sensory Services Team
            • Information and helpful resources for adults who are d/Deaf or deafblind
            • Request an assessment with Sensory Services
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        • Transport for older and disabled people
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        • Information for social care professionals
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        • How much you will pay for care and support
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        • Paying for residential care
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        • Disability related expenditure assessment
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      • Adult safeguarding
        • What is adult safeguarding?
          • Types of abuse in adults
        • How to raise an adult safeguarding concern about yourself or someone else
        • Domestic abuse support
        • Kent and Medway Adult Safeguarding Board
      • Arranging your own care
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            • Training for care workers and employers
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        • Find and choose a care home
        • Long term residential placements for older people
        • Supported housing
        • Sharing a home - Shared Lives scheme
        • Extra care housing
      • Kent and Medway Care Record
      • Mental capacity and deprivation of liberty
        • Mental Capacity Act
        • Deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS)
        • Mental Health Act - being admitted to a psychiatric hospital
      • What to expect from Kent adult social care
      • Social care reform
      • Local account for adult social care
        • Local account - caring during COVID
        • Putting the person at the centre of our vision
      • Making safeguarding personal
      • Adult social care information and resources
        • Your guide to adult social care in Kent
    • Report an adult safeguarding concern
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        • Find a clinic
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          • Get tested for STIs
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        • Ask the experts
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        • Psychosexual therapy service
        • Relationships
          • Child sexual exploitation (CSE)
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        • Sexual health services in Medway
        • Mpox
      • One You Kent
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          • Vaping: The facts
          • Smoking and young people
        • Healthy weight
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        • Get moving
        • Every Mind Matters
        • Drink less
          • Know your score quiz
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        • NHS Health Checks
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        • Release the pressure campaign resources
      • Mental health
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        • Support if debt is affecting your mental health
        • Mental health support for children and young people
          • Urgent mental health help
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          • Helping your child with mental health problems
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        • LGBTQ support
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        • Get support with drugs and alcohol
          • Find the help you need
          • Support with day to day living
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        • Understand your journey
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          • The truth about treatment
        • Advice and information
        • Real life stories
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        • Friends and family help
        • Help for professionals
      • Pregnancy and the first two years
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      • School Public Health Service
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      • Better Health Families
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        • Family activities to move more
        • Healthy eating for families
        • 10 Minute Shake Up games
        • Change4Life resources for professionals
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      • Vaccinations
    • Children in care
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    • Adoption and fostering
    • Information for social care professionals
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        • Report abuse
        • Kent and Medway Safeguarding Adults Board
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        • Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews
      • Child protection
      • County Technician Service
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      • Home care contracts
      • Integrated Community Equipment Service (ICES) and Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS)
      • Mental Capacity Act
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        • Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) professional support
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          • Contact Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
        • Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)
        • Independent Mental Capacity Advocates
        • Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHP) Service
      • Registered managers of care services
      • SPACE matters
        • Trauma informed resources
      • Out of area placements process for social care professionals
      • Social Connections Service - information for professionals
      • ReferKent
    • Kent and Medway Care Record
  • Environment, waste and planning
    • Rubbish and recycling
      • Household waste recycling centres
        • Book a slot to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
        • Our Household Waste Recycling Centres
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          • Canterbury Household Waste Recycling Centre
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          • Deal Household Waste Recycling Centre
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          • Folkestone Household Waste Recycling Centre
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          • New Romney Household Waste Recycling Centre
          • Pepperhill Household Waste Recycling Centre
          • Richborough Household Waste Recycling Centre
          • Sevenoaks Household Waste Recycling Centre
          • Sheerness Household Waste Recycling Centre
          • Sittingbourne Household Waste Recycling Centre
          • Swanley Household Waste Recycling Centre
          • Tunbridge Wells Household Waste Recycling Centre
          • Medway Council HWRCs
        • Charges at HWRCs
          • Household waste recycling centres - charges for non-Kent residents
        • Vehicle restrictions and vouchers
          • Restricted vehicles for household waste recycling centres
          • Apply for a household waste recycling centre vehicle voucher
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      • I want to get rid of...
      • Bin collections
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        • Nothing wasted at recycling centres
      • Report fly-tipping
      • How we recycle your waste
        • Preparing and separating waste for recycling
        • How we recycle food waste
        • How we recycle plastics
        • How we recycle paper and card
        • How we recycle glass
        • How we recycle garden waste
        • How we recycle cars and abandoned vehicles
        • Waste that can't be recycled
        • Where your waste and recycling goes
      • Recovering energy from waste
      • Where our waste and recycling goes
      • Managing waste
        • Advice if you're paying someone to take your rubbish away
        • Kent Resource Partnership
        • Waste guidance
        • Report fly-tipping
      • Keep Kent Clean
      • Business and commercial waste
        • Transfer stations
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    • Planning and land
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          • Highway pre-application advice
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        • Drainage planning
        • Ebbsfleet Development Corporation (EDC)
        • Highways permissions and technical guidance
        • Cultural Planning Toolkit
      • Planning policies
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      • Changing your house or road name
      • Kent Landscape Information System
      • Kent Strategic Model service
      • Historic Environment Record
      • Kent's landscape assessment
      • Local Growth Fund projects
    • Climate change
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        • Our climate emergency performance
      • Climate change explained
      • Kent's changing climate
        • Severe Weather Impacts Monitoring System (SWIMS)
        • Climate change risk and impact assessment
        • H20:Source2Sea European Union Funding
        • STAR2Cs European Union Funding
        • Cool Towns European Union Funding
        • C5a EU funding
        • Making Margate a cooler, greener place
        • The Adaptation Catalyst e-tool
      • Reducing emissions
        • Our net zero action plan
        • Sustainable travel
          • Electric vehicles
          • Kent Connected
          • Set up a walking bus
          • Kent Journey Share
          • Sustainable transport projects
          • Case study: Electric bus trial
        • Household energy
        • Our renewable energy plan
      • Insight, statistics and policy
        • Environmental policies
        • Environmental data
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    • Nature and biodiversity
      • Trees
        • Kent Plan Tree – our tree establishment strategy
        • Tree planting advice
          • Funding for schools, businesses and community groups planting trees
          • Tree planting funding for landowners or managers
        • The Tree Charter
        • Trees Outside Woodland project
        • Tree canopy cover report
        • Ash dieback in Kent
        • Case study: biodegradable tree guards
        • Volunteer as a Tree Warden
        • Our work to establish more trees in Kent
        • Tree preservation orders
      • Pollinators
        • Kent’s Plan Bee pollinator action plan
          • Kent's Plan Bee newsletter
        • How you can help pollinators
        • Important pollinators in Kent
        • Pollinator public perception survey report
        • Pollinator projects in Kent
      • Kent's landscape
        • Kent's landscape assessment
        • Kent Downs AONB
        • High Weald AONB
      • Kent Country Parks
      • Kent Countryside Partnerships
      • Kent Nature Partnership
      • Kent and Medway Shoreline Pollution Emergency Plan
      • Kent Biodiversity Strategy
      • Making Space for Nature
      • Ecology Island case study
      • The Fifth Continent project
    • Greener Kent
      • Free posters for your home or workplace
    • Green business
      • Low Carbon Kent
      • Kent and Medway Growth Hub
      • Repair, reuse and upcycling business locator
      • EU funded sustainable business projects
        • LoCASE
        • Upcycle your waste
        • BLUEPRINT (Blueprint to a Circular Economy)
        • Inn2POWER
    • Air quality
    • Flooding and drainage
      • Prepare for a flood
      • Report flooding
        • Report flooding on a road
        • River or sea flooding support
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        • Land drainage flooding
      • Help after a flood
        • Help after a flood for businesses
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        • What we are responsible for
        • Land drainage
        • Flooding and drainage policies
        • Flooding projects
          • Culvert replacement in Catts Place, Paddock Wood
          • Blue Green Infrastructure through Social Innovation (BEGIN)
          • Hilbert Woods and Grosvenor Park natural flood management
          • Mill Farm natural flood management
          • Retrofitting sustainable drainage schemes in Bell Road, Sittingbourne
          • Retrofitting sustainable drainage schemes in Dolphins Road
          • Retrofitting sustainable drainage schemes in George V Park
          • St Katherines School sustainable drainage scheme
          • SuDS planters in schools
          • Sunbridge Bypass Channel natural flood management
        • Section 19 flood investigations
        • Flood surveys
        • Landowner rights and responsibilities
      • Flooding and drainage developer support
        • Sustainable drainage developments
        • Sustainable drainage in planning
          • Pre-application guidance
          • Guidance for master planning sustainable drainage into developments
          • Our statutory consultee role
          • Standing advice for low risk developments
        • Apply for land drainage consent
        • Developer Contributions Guide
      • Flood alerts and updates
    • Public rights of way
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