News Mayor says Hackney 'rising to challenge' amid 'perilous' strain on local authorities Report from Parliament warns there are signs that quality of local authorities' services are in decline Author: Hackney Citizen
News Local MP Meg Hillier re-elected chair of influential government spending watchdog Hackney South rep to front public accounts committee for third time, and promises to ‘call out every politician who tries to pretend austerity never happened’ Author: Hackney Citizen
News Labour’s Meg Hillier rules out defection but reveals hopes for a vote on second referendum The Hackney South MP hints that she could break with official party policy next week to back a fresh public vote Author: Max Eckersley
News Titbits – Quiet consultations and confusing quotations More on the Town Hall’s communication problems in this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough Author: Hackney Citizen
News ‘Government’s free schools policy unsustainable’, warns Hackney MP Report by cross-party committee of MPs led by Meg Hillier slams Department for Education’s ‘incoherent’ use of funding Author: Hackney Citizen
News Hackney schools face ‘devastating’ funding crisis, warn campaigners Government under fire for ‘throwing money’ at free schools as borough is hit by further cuts Author: Hackney Citizen
