Kent Community Warden Service Review

To help meet the financial challenge the Council is facing, the Community Warden service has been asked to reduce its annual budget by £1 million by 2024-25.

To achieve this level of saving, we will need to redesign the service.

The Consultation document provides information on:

• the current Community Warden service, including what it does and how it operates
• why we are proposing to make changes and how we have developed our proposals
• the proposed changes to the service and details of other options that have been considered.

The proposals presented in this consultation have been developed with information from service users and input from staff and partners.

Most of the service’s £2.4 million budget provides the salaries of community wardens. To reduce the service budget by £1 million, staffing reductions would be needed. In summary, we are proposing to:

• redesign the service, ensuring there is a core Community Warden presence across the county, with teams covering two districts
• retain the remit and community-based way the service currently works but cover fewer communities
• use data and information to identify where to place wardens for most impact.

Have your say!

Before any decisions are made, we want to hear your views on:

• how the proposed reductions and approach to allocating wardens could impact you
• any additional information that you think we need to consider
• any alternative suggestions for how the service could make the savings
• the assumptions we have made in the draft Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA).

Please read the Consultation document provided in the Documents section on this page and complete the online questionnaire below. We are keen to hear your views on our proposals and how any changes may affect you.