Child Q: Headteacher of school where Black teenage girl was strip-searched steps down due to ill health
Scandal-hit school informs parents of news – with successor already in place
Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter
‘No excuse’: Three hundred council workers strike over pay
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‘My life is on hold’: Women waiting for fertility treatment at Homerton Hospital speak out over delays
Hospital apologises for distress caused by ‘extraordinary and unforeseen operational challenges’
Liberal Democrat mayoral hopeful says ‘tough talking’ and togetherness needed as she homes in on children’s welfare
Accountant Helen Baxter talks about her priorities for the borough ahead of May’s elections
Child Q: Metropolitan Police to bring in stricter rules for intimate searches of children
Hackney Council ‘cautiously welcomes’ Met’s response to strip-search of Black teenage girl at her school
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Frances Cherry, who has to keep bikes in her toilet and hallway, wants the council to convert car spaces into storage hangars
‘The pandemic has not gone away,’ warns Hackney’s public health boss
Cases in City and Hackney have risen by nearly a quarter in the last week
Homerton Hospital forced to cancel operations as staff come down with Covid
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Child Q: ‘Mortified’ Hackney police chief issues fresh apology to teenage girl and her family
Borough commander Marcus Barnett says he is ‘genuinely sorry’ for the heartache caused
Green Party mayoral candidate calls for ‘deep police reform’ as she outlines her priorities for Hackney
NHS worker Zoe Garbett on Child Q, LTNs, cost of living and giving ‘power back to the people’
Child Q: School apologises for teenage girl’s ‘harrowing’ experience
Governing board accepts the child ‘should not have been left in the situation that she was’