Hackney’s elected mayor and councillors will now have to pass enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks after local politicians last night voted to adopt the rule with immediate effect. It ...

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Helen Woodland, the council’s group director for adults, health and integration, told councillors the work had been “complex” ...

But Dalston councillor and London Assembly Member Zoë Garbett pressed the mayor on whether the funding was being used ...

The role of police officers in Hackney’s schools is to be overhauled – four years after the Child Q strip-searching scandal. The changes aim to address serious concerns about such officers’ conduct ...

Whilst anti-migrant rhetoric sparked violent disorder up and down the country this summer, Hackney was an active and vocal participant in the counter-demonstrations that took place in many towns and ...

Labour’s George Gooch has been elected as a councillor in the London Fields by-election. Gooch won the seat with 54 per cent of the vote, with Independent Socialist candidate Sarah Byrne taking second ...

The Greens are celebrating a surprise victory over the ruling Labour party after Liam Davis won the Stoke Newington ward by-election with 53 per cent of the vote. Davis gained the seat with a 19-point ...

At the age of about 30, nostalgia really starts to kick it up a gear. If you’re over that great age, I am sure you will scoff and chuckle at this naive statement. If you’re under 30, or specifically, ...