KCC COULD DO BETTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE Kent Labour welcomes the publication of the OfSTED Joint Area Review and Enhanced Youth Inspection assessments of Kent County Council’s services for children & young people. Mike Eddy, Labour Shadow Leader of KCC, said: “OfSTED’s assessments found that on the whole, KCC’s services for children & young people are of a good or outstanding standard. “That’s a real credit to the frontline staff who deliver those services. But OfSTED also found that there are important gaps KCC needs to fill. It raised concerns around work tackling teenage pregnancy, around services to children with learning difficulties and their families, and around the health of looked-after children”. “I hope that as well as publicising its successes, KCC will acknowledge and work on those areas where it could do better for children and young people”. Christine Angell, Labour Shadow Cabinet Member for Education, added: “The Review found that KCC scored a grade 3 - good, but not outstanding - on safeguarding children and on its services to looked-after children and children with learning difficulties and disabilities.“The Council shouldn’t rest until it can score an outstanding 4 for these services. A four star authority such as KCC should not be satisfied with only three stars for the children of Kent.“Kent Labour will keep up the pressure on KCC’s current Conservative leadership to deliver for all the County’s young people.”
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