Archive for haringey council
Haringey Council ordered to stop funding political propaganda
The Hornsey Journal reports: A council magazine has been scolded by a spending watchdog for flogging “party political views” at the expense of taxpayers. Auditors Grant Thornton has now ordered Labour run Haringey Council to change the wording it uses in Haringey People – a magazine sent to residents six times a year – to [...]
Mother left 10 children starving and lice-ridden in same borough where Baby P and Victoria died
That’s the Evening Standard headline about the latest tragedy in the London Borough of Haringey, home already to two of the most shocking and notorious failures in child protection in recent years: A mother has been jailed for the abuse of 10 children in her care in Haringey, the borough at the centre of the [...]
When is a financial interest not a financial interest?
Curious news from Labour-run Haringey Council, where Labour’s round of budget cuts has come under fire for the smoke and mirrors behind the headline claims. One of the proposed Liberal Democrat amendments was to cut the amount of financial support the Haringey Council currently gives to trade unions by paying the salaries of union organisers. [...]
Council website spending put under scrutiny
Today’s Telegraph has a piece looking at the large sums being spent by many councils on new or revamped websites. In itself, an expensive website is not necessarily a poor use of funds as good, popular sites often also save costs (e.g. by reducing the number of phonecalls the council has to handle). As a result, [...]
Baby P whistleblower stands as councillor
From the Evening Standard:
The whistleblower who warned that Haringey social services were failing to protect children just six months before the death of Baby P is to stand for election there as a Liberal Democrat councillor.
Former social worker Nevres Kemal, above, who will contest the Noel Park ward, said she will try to rid the [...]
To you, it’s an empty pavement; to me, it’s a miracle – encore
Clearly it’s the season for ridiculously long-running sagas to be sorted out for have just spotted that another long-damaged utility box has finally been removed. This one is on Hornsey Lane, Crouch End and, as with the one in Westminster, it involved a long and tortuous process including the local council (Haringey Council this time) [...]
Clause 81 of the New Roads and Street Act 1991 is your friend
You may have been following some of my travails trying to get repairs made to some of those telephone, broadband, traffic light etc boxes which appear on many pavements.
Although my own local council (Islington) is very good at dealing with them either directly themselves or passing on to the relevant company and ensuring the work [...]
Wood Green: half a diagonal crossing on its way
Haringey Council is planning to introduce a diagonal crossing outside Wood Green station. However, given the paucity of the information on Haringey Council’s website you may not have spotted what’s implicit in that description, namely that it is only half a diagonal crossing. Unlike the diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus which, when viewed from above, [...]
How not to communicate about a traffic crossing, Haringey Council style
As Helen Duffett has blogged, there are plans to introduce a diagonal crossing outside Wood Green tube station. However, take a look at the Haringey Council web page about the project and you see an example of how not to communicate with the public: The page does not provide any meaningful detail about what is [...]
Daily View 2×2: 24 January 2010
It’s Sunday. It’s 9am. It’s time for one of Microsoft’s best adverts (no, really) and the bicycle lane of the week but first the news.
2 Must-Read Blog Posts
What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here’s are two posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:
Really interesting health discussion: Sandy Walkington doesn’t [...]
