Alister Brady KCC Councillor for Canterbury City North

Kent County Council (KCC) is asking you to help shape its draft Education Accessibility Strategy for 2024-27 and Schools Access Initiative Policy and Procedure.

A public consultation on the two policies opened on September 23 and will close on November 11.

At the same time, KCC is asking for your views on Kent’s updated Strategy for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) 2025-28. You can have your say on this by visiting:

https://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council/strategies-and-policies/service-specific-policies/education-policies/send-strategies-and-policies/strategy-for-children-with-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities


The consultation webpage for the SEND Strategy is:

https://letstalk.kent.gov.uk/send-strategy-2025-2028

The contact for queries and paper copies is [email protected]

The consultation webpage for the Education Accessibility Strategy and School Access Initiative Policy and Procedure is:

https://letstalk.kent.gov.uk/education-accessibility

The contact for queries and paper copies is [email protected] or 03000 412309.

Education Accessibility Strategy Our driving ambition is to deliver the best outcomes we can for all children, young people and their families. To support this ambition we are consulting on two documents: Education Accessibility Strategy 2024-27 School Access Initiative – Policy and Procedure Education

https://news.kent.gov.uk/articles/kcc-celebrates-world-mental-health-day-2024

KCC celebrates World Mental Health Day Kent County Council (KCC) is raising awareness of free training and guidance available to help people talk openly about mental health at work – and for businesses to be mentally healthy places.

A statement from your Labour councillors in Canterbury City Council regarding recent events:

We will always stand up to those who seek to spread hatred, division and fear.

https://news.kent.gov.uk/articles/have-your-say-on-the-new-local-transport-plan-for-kent

Have your say on the new Local Transport Plan for Kent Following the progress Kent County Council (KCC) has made delivering on the ambitions of its fourth Local Transport Plan (Delivering Growth without Gridlock), residents can now share their views on the new Local Transport Plan: Striking the Balance.

👭 More tenant community events this summer!

We are hosting a series of community events alongside other local partners where tenants can raise any issues they have about the area they live in.

🗓 Wednesday 31 July - 11am – 1pm - Sydney Road, Whitstable
🗓 Wednesday 7 August - 11am – 1pm - St. Albans, Hersden
🗓 Saturday 10 August, 12pm - 3pm - Recreation Field Community Picnic at Thanington Resource Centre (organised by Thanington Resource Centre)
🗓 Wednesday 14 August, 11am – 1pm - The Square, Knight Ave, Canterbury
🗓 Wednesday 21 August, 11am – 1pm - Victoria Park, Herne Bay

Tenants will be supported by members of the Resident Engagement Panel or REP as well as some of our community champions.

To find out more, email [email protected] or call 01227 862 142.

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Vote the Tory’s out today!

Expert economists back Labour’s plan to end economic stagnation in UK

Expert economists back Labour’s plan to end economic stagnation in UK Nobel prize winners and former Bank of England officials believe Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer can bring about ‘desperately needed’ change

Great canvassing session in Chartham this afternoon to get Rosie re-elected.

We can’t go backwards to a time when the Tory’s were breaking and failing the Country and Canterbury.

To stop that vote Rosie on 4th July!🌹✊🏽

Really busy day today in Canterbury!

First stop was helping run the street stall at Canterbury Pride with the fantastic Canterbury Labour Team.

Next to the brilliant Big Help Out community event in St Stevens which is organised by amazing volunteers. It’s aim is to tackle social isolation.

Last, I had the privilege of being invited to Joey Wicks 25 year celebration. He has helped run the Prince of Wales Youth Club for the last 25 years being instrumental in achieving it success today, helping young people in the community!

We will remember them, we will remember them.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/24/labour-promises-rail-nationalisation-within-five-years-of-coming-to-power

Labour promises rail nationalisation within five years of coming to power Party pledges to bring all passenger rail – but not rolling stock – into public ownership as contracts with train operators expire

If you want to know why your mortgage has gone up and who are to blame then listen to this series of podcasts:

‎The Rest Is Money: Who Killed Liz Truss? Countdown to Calamity (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts ‎Show The Rest Is Money, Ep Who Killed Liz Truss? Countdown to Calamity (Part 1) - 10 Apr 2024

I have been saying this from the beginning - Sunak only wanted to become PM to save his wife hundreds of millions in inheritance tax!

Tory plans to abolish non-dom status riddled with loopholes, Labour says Analysis suggests wealthiest would save millions and Sunak’s own family could benefit to tune of £250m

It you are a council tenant the below picture contains the new numbers you will need:

Pharmacy opening hours over Easter.

SNG road closure over Easter! Info below:

Please see information below about an emergency road closure for gas repairs. Updates will be provided on our website here https://www.sgn.co.uk/our-gas-works/roadworks-your-area

Wednesday 27 March - Pean Hill, Whitstable

Engineers have been working in Pean Hill under two-way temporary traffic lights to locate the source of a gas leak.

This has now been identified, and we need to carry out urgent repairs to our gas network. We need to carry out further excavation work to do the repairs using specialist equipment, and that will not leave enough room for traffic to pass safely.

To ensure everyone's safety while we complete our critical work, the road will be closed near the junction with Pean Court Road from 3pm on Wednesday 27 March, and will remain closed over the Easter weekend until 16:30 on the 7th April.

Local signed diversions are in place for motorists.

We understand this is a busy route and we'd like to apologise for any disruption caused.

Roadworks in your area | SGN Your gas. Our network. Use our map to find emergency and planned gas works in your area and on your commute.

I have been concerned for a while about the prices of petrol in Canterbury compaired to other petrol stations in the district.

The Esso stations are far above the average price and I think this is wrong. I will be posting weekly prices so you can look to fill you car up at the most reasonable price instead of being over charged during a cost of living crisis.

Morrisons and Asda = £1.447 per litre
Esso = 1.489 and £1.479

The formal consultation for our next draft local plan is now open.

This council administration is listening to you and we want to know what you think about our plans.

Please respond the consultation at the links below:

​Draft Canterbury District Local Plan to 2040: https://news.canterbury.gov.uk/consultations/canterbury-district-local-plan-to-2040/

Draft Canterbury District Transport Strategy: https://news.canterbury.gov.uk/consultations/the-draft-canterbury-district-transport-strategy/

Draft Open Spaces Strategy 2024-2040: https://news.canterbury.gov.uk/consultations/draft-open-space-strategy-2024-2040/

Draft Air Quality Action Plan: https://news.canterbury.gov.uk/consultations/draft-air-quality-action-plan/

Sustainable Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document: https://news.canterbury.gov.uk/consultations/sustainable-design-guide-supplementary-planning-document-spd/

A clear message straight out of the farmers mouths - no propaganda, gas lighting, or spin - the government is letting down British farming! The message is loud and clear!

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👭 Drop into our community event in Canterbury next week!

👋 It's the third event we're running to bring our tenants and the wider community together to speak with key services, including our Housing team, Kent County Council's wardens, Kent Police, Kent Fire and Rescue Service and Canterbury Food Bank.

You'll get the chance to:

➡️ win a £50 voucher
➡️ participate in activities and get freebies from Maya’s Community Support Centre and Espression Arts
➡️ report repairs, complaints and compliments to Mears, Canenco and Swale Heating

🗓 Tuesday 27 February from 2pm to 6pm at Thanington Neighbourhood Resource Centre, CT1 3XE.

ℹ️ To find out more, please email [email protected] or call 01227 862 142.

Kent County Council’s (KCC) libraries are to offer a free course to help support residents with their personal finances.

The Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers has partnered with KCC’s 99 libraries to provide a ‘managing your finances’ one-hour learning course which covers some basic topics of setting a household budget, understanding your payslip, reducing your cost of living expenses, understanding loan repayments and accessing financial support.

The course will be available via the free public computers or people can simply scan a QR code which links to the course on their smartphone:

http://iabeducation.co.uk/enroll?id=3063

Once completed, users will receive a certificate which could prove invaluable when applying for jobs, volunteering roles, housing or potentially accessing further qualifications.


IAB Sustainability Officer, Helen Boone said: “We are looking to help hundreds of people to understand how to get on top of their finances. This is particularly important when so many of us are coping with the cost-of-living crisis and may not understand how to make simple cost savings.

“As libraries are increasingly seen as important community hubs, we felt they were the ideal place to offer this service and we’re thrilled that Kent has fully come on board to help us.”

IAB Chief Executive, Sarah Palmer said: “We at the IAB are passionate about education and we want to do whatever we can to inspire the next generation of finance professionals. We also want to fill this important skills gap left by the loss of funding. That is why we have linked up with the Kent library team to roll out this training course.

“Not only will it help people with basic finances but we believe it can also form the pathway to a new career in accountancy, bookkeeping or business support.”

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Keir Starmer has made it part of our mission for the next Labour government to halve knife crime. That is why we have set out an urgent plan:

Get knives off our streets with an urgent crackdown on the possession and sale of lethal knives, and bring in new and stronger laws to crack down on dangerous knife sales.

Crackdown on criminal gangs who are luring teenagers into violence, by making child criminal exploitation an offence and strengthening the serious and organised crime strategy.

Community prevention work and early intervention to stop young people being drawn into crime through a major new Young Futures Programme including new youth hubs and mental health support.

Immediate interventions and serious consequences for young people caught carrying a knife with referrals to Youth Offending Teams, sanctions and bespoke intervention plans.

Create a new cross-government coalition to end knife crime, bringing together political and community leaders to help tackle the issue and keep young people safe.

Labour's Action Plan to cut knife crime – The Labour Party Knife crime is yet another crushing example of us all paying the price for Tory sticking plaster politics. Our five point plan will tackle it.