‘Learning through play’: Caroline Woodley on Hackney’s adventure playgrounds
Lead councillor holds up playgrounds as ‘incredibly important’ for inclusivity, wellbeing and community spirit
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Councillors call for more investment and support to tackle off-rolling
Families chief suggests ‘inclusion check-ins’ as rates of elective home education see ‘significant growth’
Council’s children and families service continues to see ‘increasing pressures’
Child protection enquiries expected to increase ‘significantly’ as schools reopen
‘Chilling’: Protests planned after Hoxton museum reveals government pressured it to keep slaver statue
Backlash over Geffrye statue decision causes Museum of the Home to ‘reflect further’ as council calls out government for intervening
‘Arrears are not our fault’: Hackney renters picket courthouse to demand cancellation of Covid-related debt
Protesters call for ‘right to home as universal need and value that defines a civilised society’
Revealed: Hackney GPs ‘locked out’ of council housing needs system
Doctors warn system leaves patients seeking housing priority on medical grounds ‘bouncing from GP to council’
Hotel on site of former Tesco pledges to work with local community
Residents association speaks out in opposition in debate over future of licensing restrictions in Dalston
Homerton Hospital study shows gender and ethnicity inequity in palliative care
Lead nurse stresses need for further research into health inequalities in calls for ‘equitable, responsive, flexible and integrated services’
Broadway Market to reopen on Saturday as visitors told: ‘Queue, shop, go’
Soft launch over weekend has Broadway ‘ready to go’ as warnings repeated over ‘flouting’ of social distancing making reopening difficult
Hackney councillor offers clothes alteration service for donations to local food bank
Alterations to dresses, trousers, cardigans and handmade facemasks part of Katie Hanson’s ‘socially useful and productive’ charity drive
‘Geffrye must fall’: Stand Up To Racism protest calls on museum to remove statue
Councillors join protesters in accusing Museum of ‘disrespect’ as demands repeated to take down ‘reminder of oppression’
Co-living flats on Kingsland Basin approved despite ‘totally unconvinced’ councillors
Scheme ‘threatens the very characteristics that have created this quiet, tucked-away refuge’, says council’s public realm chief
Somerford Grove renters face eviction as Hackney Mayor calls out billionaire landlord
Councillors speak out over ‘poor treatment’ of residents as calls repeated for ‘complete end’ to use of Section 21 no-fault evictions
Cross-party calls made to safeguard future of domestic violence charity Sistah Space
Council urged to offer reduced rent at Mare Street premises as founder advocates for domestic violence victims’ right to ‘place of safety’
De Beauvoir residents to vote on estate regeneration in planning policy dry run
Ballot aims to put residents ‘at centre of decisions affecting their area’
Hackney Council to table Black Lives Matter motion next week
Motion commits Town Hall to ‘actively fighting racism in the borough’