Posts by Jacob Dirnhuber, Local Democracy Reporter
Billionaire landlord partied with England stars just days before court ordered him to repay £18k in rent to tenants he evicted during pandemic
Mason Mount and Declan Rice described John Christodolou as a ‘legend’ after the Monaco-based tax exile invited them on his £35m super yacht
Read MoreCouncil accidentally leaks addresses of vulnerable residents with IT blunder that ‘could have cost lives’
Citizen investigation reveals senior managers made social work case notes, NI numbers, and locations of at-risk women free to view for every internet user
Read MoreHackney councillor orders government to grant local authorities tough new powers to meet emissions targets
Polly Billington’s UK100 group of councils says Whitehall ‘can’t do it without us’
Read MoreFinance chief admits children’s service spending is ‘not sustainable’ as he reveals £3.3m black hole
Care homes charging £200k-a-head and Covid overspends force department to blow through reserves
Read MoreCouncillors close bar for good after bouncers help knife attack suspects escape through back door
Heart of Hackney on Mare Street admits nine separate licensing breaches
Read MorePlans for crumbling St Leonard’s Hospital could involve parts of Grade-II listed building being sold for housing
Controversial Whipps Cross sell-off being looked at as a ‘template’
Read MoreCouncil told restaurants to switch to deliveries during pandemic – but many were booted off Deliveroo and Uber Eats after cyber attack wiped food safety scores
Licensing boss reveals environmental health service was brought to a ‘standstill’ following October’s hack
Read MoreCouncil admits it can’t guarantee safety of ‘burnt-out’ social workers after cyber attack wipes key database
Social care boss says October’s hack left staff without case notes until April
Read MoreFour Orthodox schools in Hackney fail 29 of last 30 Ofsted visits between them
Bnois Jerusalem, Wiznitz Cheder, Talmud Torah Yetev Lev, and TTD Gur schools have all been rated ‘inadequate’ since at least 2014
Read MoreHeadteacher accuses council of plotting school closures with ‘data that doesn’t stack up’
Urswick’s Richard Brown says Town Hall assumes ‘number of kids in primary school will be exactly replicated by the time they go to secondary school’
Read MoreCouncil rakes in £2.7m by fining drivers for breaching LTNs – but 80 per cent don’t even live in Hackney
‘Figures demonstrate scale of challenge to eliminate through-traffic’, says transport boss
Read MoreCouncillor shares first-hand experience of racial profiling at hands of police as she demands changes to Stop and Search
Soraya Adejare told how police officers pulled her over for “looking lost” – even though she was driving home from work
Read MoreEducation boss reveals remote learning left Hackney’s poorest kids behind on writing, maths and fine motor skills
Councillors warned that attainment gap will continue to grow without ‘big bit of work’ from teachers
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