Kent County Council - What does Kent County Council do?

Services from Kent County Council, affects the daily lives of residents, workers and visitors to the county and include:

  • maintaining Kent’s network of roads
  • disposing of more than half a million tonnes of rubbish and recycling almost 250,000 tonnes of household rubbish every year
  • educating more than 200,000 children in primary, secondary and special schools and pupil referral units each year
  • lending 9 million items from our 117 libraries (including mobile libraries) every year and managing art galleries in 22 libraries
  • running a wide range of adult education courses from 22 adult education centres and 300 other adult education sites
  • delivering a youth service in 28 centres across the country, backed up by detached youth projects, mobile units, vocational
  • training centres, residential and outdoor centres and a campsite
  • helping older people to live at home and supporting older people in residential and nursing care
  • providing care packages to adult clients, including older people and adults with a physical or learning disability or mental health need
  • looking after ‘looked after children’, with a high proportion in foster care rather than residential care.

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