Archive for haringey council
Can you spot the rubbish in this photo?
I first reported some rubbish on Mount View Road to Haringey Council on 25 April: “Abandoned estate agent board and other rubbish at foot of yellow brick building – between building and fence at edge of Mount View Road”. Although it is on Thames Water’s land, Haringey Council can (and says it does) tackle such [...]
How not to use Twitter: Haringey Council
Haringey Council (in north London) started using Twitter in the guise of @LBHaringey on 21 March. Between then and 27 March, 15 tweets were sent, albeit mostly simply news feed updates regarding the council website. And in the two months since then? Nothing. Perhaps Haringey has experimented and decided not to continue? But in that [...]
Haringey Labour increase their allowances by stealth
A quick quiz for you. One of the Haringey local newspapers, The Hornsey Journal, had this story on 14 May:
Under fire councillors opt to take pay freeze
The recession is about to hit councillors in the pocket, after both Haringey Labour and Liberal Democrat parties decided NOT to take a pay rise …
Councillor Claire Kober, Leader [...]
A note to Haringey Council staff: please remember to scroll down
I report some graffiti to Haringey Council. Haringey Council doesn’t remove it. Ask why not. The answer? The graffiti cleaning person didn’t scroll down on the email they were sent. (Also in the news: Haringey Council sends a letter to a bus shelter.)
Baby P’s death “could and should” have been stopped
The awful news about the second case of child abuse involving someone Haringey Council was meant to be protecting - with the conviction of the boyfriend of Baby P’s mother for raping a two-year old - has rather pushed to one side the publication of the second Serious Case Review into Baby P’s death.
The original [...]
If the leader of the free world only needs a small TV…
Seeing this photo of Barack Obama’s small TV reminded me of this story about the size of the TV installed in the office of the then Labour leader of Haringey Council. I’m sure there are plenty of good reasons why the leader of a council needs a much bigger TV than the leader of the [...]
Brazil: a film that seems as new now as it did 25 years ago
It’s not often that you sit down to watch a film first released a quarter of a century ago and feels like you are watching one that could have been released yesterday, but such was my experience with Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. The nightmare future it paints seems as apposite now as it did in the [...]
Mainstream media catches up with concerns over Haringey Chief Exec Ita O’Donovan
Evening Standard, 12 March 2009:
The head of the council at the centre of the Baby P scandal faces questions today over a series of other child protection failures.
Haringey chief executive Ita O’Donovan has held senior positions at three councils that were condemned for failing children so seriously that the Government was forced to intervene.
Dr O’Donovan [...]
