Hundreds of jobs at cash-strapped Kent County Council are at risk of redundancy as the authority seeks urgent savings, a new document reveals. According to papers seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), 208 posts are to be axed. The losses will affect staffers on the Open Access teams in the Children, Young People and Education directorate. Many youth services are being scaled back to accommodate the new government ‘family hubs’ model. KCC, like most authorities in the country, is under huge pressure to save tens of millions of pounds in the face of soaring costs and falling gove…
