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Private Eye reports that LBWF is England’s third most complained about...
The latest issue of Private Eye (no.1681, 07/08-20/08/26) includes the following: Coincidentally, the LBWF 2025-26 Annual Governance Statement (AGS) has just been published, and this gives a dismal...
View ArticleNew research reveals that LBWF repeated its failings over Whitefield many...
As hitherto reported (see links), the recent Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review (LCSPR) of child abuse at Whitefield during 2014-17 concludes that (a) there were various problems with the pupils’...
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The Whitefield Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review (3): Leigh Day now...
(1) Part of Leigh Day’s press release, posted on 30 July 2026: (2) Marco Marcelline in the Waltham Forest Echo, dated 30 July 2026:...
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The Whitefield Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review (2): more confusion...
Further to an earlier post (see links) there are two additional points that are worth making about the contents of the Whitefield Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review (LCSPR). The first concerns...
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Burnham-ism: a warning from (Waltham Forest) history
Yes, definitely, let’s devolve power and money to the localities, because ‘communities know better than anyone else what’s right for them’. Power to the people! What could possibly go wrong? Well, if...
View ArticleThe Whitefield Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review: what it says, what...
This post looks in some detail at the recently published Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review (LCSPR) regarding the historic child abuse at Whitefield School (or, to give it its formal title...
View ArticleThe Review into historic child abuse at Whitefield is due out next week, but...
It is said that the Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review (LCSPR) into child abuse at Whitefield School during 2014-17 finally will be released next week, having taken an astonishing 16 months...
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Nine years after Grenfell, 64 of LBWF’s 65 low-rise and high-rise housing...
In 2020, after it was involved in several fire safety scandals, including litigation with a supplier, LBWF began a remediation programme (RP) to bring its housing stock ‘up to the most modern…safety...
View ArticleJournalist Andrew Kersley’s investigation of Waltham Forest resident Tracey...
Journalist Andrew Kersley’s investigation of Waltham Forest resident Tracey Turnell’s tragic death, published on 30 May in The Londoner, has deservedly provoked much positive interest and comment (see...
View ArticleLBWF is quietly paying consultancy Newton c. £5m. to help it make savings in...
From the beginning of the year, LBWF has been working with a big consultancy, Newton Consulting Ltd., on a project to deliver ‘change across its organisation, with a focus on… Housing and...
View Article‘How others see us’, an occasional series, No.2: The Londoner’s Andrew...
The Londoner has just published Andrew Kersley’s forensic investigation of the tragic death of Waltham Forest resident Tracey Turnell, the so called ‘body in the wheelchair’ case, here:...
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In Waltham Forest, the Greens take the Town Hall, but will ‘a new kind of...
Jubilant at gaining an overall majority in the Town Hall, the Greens are promising major changes, no less than ‘a new kind of council’. However, there are several flies in the ointment, as this post...
View ArticleLBWF’s equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) programme: has it involved...
For the last five years, LBWF has been implementing a wide-ranging equality, diversity and inclusion programme which has comprised numerous separate initiatives; involved every Town Hall employee,...
View ArticleThe Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review of historic child abuse at...
Word reaches this blog that the Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review (LCSPR) of historic child abuse at Whitefield School, though already more than a year overdue, is to be delayed yet again, and...
View ArticleLBWF’s promise to put ‘residents at the heart of everything we do’ yet again...
Renowned Waltham Forest campaigner James O’Rourke has appeared in posts on this blog before. He is a highly qualified expert, a Family and Friend Representative, Learning Disability England; an...
View ArticleThe Whitefield School child abuse scandal: the five big issues that remain...
BBC reporter: ‘You’re sure that his time in these calming rooms changed him?’Mother: ‘Yes, very much so. He went in as a calm, sweet, innocent child, and he’s come out of there not even being able to...
View ArticleWhitefield latest: in August 2024 LBWF and partners initiated a statutory...
In August 2024, LBWF and its various safeguarding partners initiated a Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review (LCSPR) to examine the historic child abuse at Whitefield School, and this was then...
View ArticleLBWF’s commitment to being transparent again in question as campaigner finds...
In recent years LBWF has repeatedly failed to uphold its responsibility to be open and transparent, even where this is required by the law. A few examples are illustrative (for further details see the...
View ArticleLBWF gets peer reviewed…but are the results credible?
In 2024, LBWF volunteered itself for a Local Government Association (LGA) Corporate Peer Challenge (CPC), that is an audit by a team of ‘senior local government councillors and officers’ from outside...
View ArticleLBWF’s new back office Oracle Fusion networking platform: management miracle...
In December 2021 LBWF decided to modernise its back office by installing a cloud based networking platform made by the leading American company Oracle (‘Big Red’). Subsequently, this innovation has...
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