Kent County Council's legal team is to launch its own trainee programme, with the move coming as the local authority eyes a series of white label and cross-selling initiatives.

Geoff Wild, Kent's director of governance and law, said the council's legal services department plans to take on four trainees a year from the autumn.

Trainees will complete seats across the department's main practice areas of property, planning & highways, contracts & commercial, litigation & employment and social welfare, as well as potentially carrying out secondments with other local authorities and partner organisations around the UK.