Teaching vacancies at Hackney primaries ‘above average’, the most recent data suggests
‘It is not unusual to have three vacancies across all 53 of Hackney’s primary schools’, says council spokesperson
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Council offers £30k for job ‘sorting papers’ of ex-Mayor Jules Pipe
‘You will need to have a head for heights due to the tall racking!’ the Town Hall warns applicants
Anti-poverty charity slams Town Hall’s ‘absurd’ council tax proposals
Zacchaeus 2000 Trust says changes to relief scheme will ‘take money out of the pockets of their poorest residents’, but council says government cuts led to decision
Town Hall misses high priority blaze threat targets three times
Guidance set by safety experts on dealing with ‘P1’ risks is that they must be fixed within a month
Hackney Council’s letting agency does not exist, Town Hall admits
Priority Homes scheme billed as a social letting agency ‘because that’s how most people would understand its function’
Business rates: Town Hall launches consultation on £7m relief fund
Residents can have a say on how money is dished out to local businesses, which were hit hard by this year’s rates hike
Fire risks at council property left unchecked for over five years
When an assessment was eventually carried out this year, it found there was no fire detection or alarm system.
Charity’s River Lea reedbed drive hits 1000-metre landmark
Thames 21’s volunteer project creates habitats for wildlife and helps to reduce pollution
Hackney Council freesheet claims to be a ‘fortnightly newspaper’ – but legally may be neither
Hackney Today ‘appears to be in breach of the law’, says Citizen editor
Working age households could face extra £100 a year burden under new council tax proposals
Mayor Glanville says planned change to tax reduction scheme is the ‘fairest option’ amid ‘massive funding shortfall’
Disability campaign group slams council’s user-unfriendly fire risk map
Lack of accessibility is ‘denying disabled people the opportunity to play a full role in Hackney life’
Just two letting agents sign up to council’s fee-scrapping scheme in its first month
Town Hall is asking local agents to stop charging letting fees voluntarily ahead of expected government ban
London Fields Lido finally gets reopening date – after end of summer
The pool will throw its doors back open to swimmers on the last day of September
Hackney among worst boroughs in London for health inequality, new figures show
Only residents in Tower Hamlets and Haringey spend longer in ill health, as Town Hall cites ‘financial deprivation’ and better life expectancy
GCSE results: Hackney students ‘excel yet again’ in face of major reforms
Borough’s deputy mayor sings praises of students after they outperform national figures
Hackney pupils pick up their GCSE results
Follow the latest from schools as the first students to be impacted by new GCSE reforms open those all-important envelopes