The Mossbourne Federation declined three times to apologise to children whose treatment was found harmful by a safeguarding review, as councillors and the safeguarding commissioner who commissioned ...

The Mayor of London has fallen short of the revised affordable housing target set by the Government by thousands of homes, it has emerged. Sir Sadiq Khan was allocated £4 billion from ministers for ...

Hackney Council spent more than £10,000 on parking penalties and charges over a 12-month period, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) can reveal. Data on council payments below £250 obtained ...

The borough’s Green administration approved Phases 4 and 5 of the 30-year Woodberry Down regeneration at the first cabinet meeting chaired by new Mayor Zoë Garbett since last week’s local elections, ...

A former Hackney councillor, newly knighted for his work on racial equality, will return to the borough this week to chair the opening night of a documentary about the black and working-class people ...

Low Traffic Hackney backs new trees and benches at Hoxton Trust garden but disputes the council’s account of what happens to the car bays Hackney Council has opened a consultation on plans to redesign ...

Photograph: LDRS Hackney Council failed to renew a major deal for housing repairs for more than six years despite internal warnings about the decline of the borough’s social homes, the Local Democracy ...

A family living on the ground floor of a Haggerston council block say they are scared for their lives at Bryant Court, where they say leaks left unresolved for more than five years have caused the ...

Under the arrangements set by the previous Labour administration, there is no requirement — and has been no discussion — about applying the council’s Climate Action Plan to the redevelopment of the ...

Around 70 firefighters and ten fire engines were called to a hotel fire on Amhurst Road yesterday afternoon, in an incident that forced the evacuation of 16 people but no injuries were reported. The ...