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One in seven of Kent’s schools say they could become one of a new generation of independent academies, it has emerged.
Three old people’s homes are likely to shut and others sold off to private companies under a county council shake-up affecting all but one of its remaining residential care homes.
A huge schools rebuilding programme that was expected to see an investment of hundreds of millions of pounds is in limbo.
