News - Hackney Citizen (Page 18)

Mega-pension fund faces calls to divest from firms 'enabling Israeli violations'

Shake the CIV said the pension fund currently invests £7billion into companies “complicit in Israel’s crimes”

Author: Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter

Mega-pension fund faces calls to divest from firms 'enabling Israeli violations'

Hackney nursery to close in days with parents scrambling to find new places for children

The nursery will shut down at the end of March due to a ‘continued decline in demand’

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Hackney nursery to close in days with parents scrambling to find new places for children

Hackney Council ignored tenant's concerns over safety of her autistic child in social housing

The council has paid the family £500 to recognise the “distress, uncertainty and frustration” it had caused

Author: Hackney Citizen

Disrepair and depression in De Beauvoir - residents decry ‘whole heap’ of housing problems

The lower two floors of one building on the estate have been empty for almost six years

Author: Elspeth Rees

Disrepair and depression in De Beauvoir - residents decry ‘whole heap’ of housing problems

Council suggests taking autistic boy on bus ride to 'prove' he can’t use public transport

The council suggested taking the child on a bus ride so they can test his family’s claim that travelling by public transport would prove distressing for him

Author: Hackney Citizen

'The destruction of our livelihoods' - Ridley Road Shopping Village traders to hold public meeting as 'evictions' loom

Traders told to leave by 31 March as their landlord has declined to renew their tenancies

Author: James Barnes

Fatimata owner of Bedding Outlet at RRSV

Homerton for Homerton: Cambridge University college to support Hackney ward where it was founded 257 years ago

Homerton College launches scheme to inspire young people from the borough to aim for the best universities

Author: Hackney Citizen

Homerton for Homerton: Cambridge University college to support Hackney ward where it was founded 257 years ago

Mother in homeless hostel denied visitors for a week after C-section, charity says

Shelter has urged Hackney Council to ease restrictions on its guest policy for children and families in temporary accommodation

Author: Hackney Citizen

Opposition councillors slam 'lack of transparency' over 'harrowing' Mossbourne safeguarding review

They claim there has been no reassurance that changes are being made in the three months since the review was published

Author: Hackney Citizen

Opposition councillors slam 'lack of transparency' over 'harrowing' Mossbourne safeguarding review

Demand for Hackney Foodbank rises by 300 per cent in six years as cost of living crisis rages on

Nearly two thirds of the food bank’s emergency meals go to children

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Demand for Hackney Foodbank rises by 300 per cent in six years as cost of living crisis rages on

Hackney tower block hit by flooding days after fire breaks out

Residents have called for the block to be evacuated

Author: Hackney Citizen

Extreme heat in London could force major change to new housing developments

Londoners face a unique threat from extreme heat due to climate change

Author: Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter