LBWF’s latest employment tribunal case: allegations of serious Town Hall...
On 28 March 2024, The Times published the following story: ‘No leading lady worth that label in the golden age of Hollywood would have balked at being called “glamorous”. But Joan Crawford and Rita...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Leytonstone cartoonist Woox on Michael Gove’s letter to LBWF about it’s...
Item: ‘Secretary of State Michael Gove has written to the LBWF Chief Executive following a Housing Ombudsman report that finds LBWF guilty of severe maladministration in dealing with residents’...
View ArticleA new study shows that the closure of police stations in Waltham Forest...
From 2011 onwards, Waltham Forest saw police stations in Leyton, Leytonstone, and Walthamstow close, leaving only Chingford open. There was much disquiet about this at the time, but senior police...
View ArticleLBWF censured by an Ombudsman again, this time because it sent an invoice...
Hardly a week goes by without someone from LBWF repeating the twin mantras that ‘Residents are at the heart of everything we do’, and ‘We are determined to be a Council that listens to and works for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tory Deputy Leader Cllr. Afzal Akram fails to declare his company...
Afzal Akram is a councillor for Valley ward; ‘Voluntary Party Manager’ for the Conservative Party (previously having been ‘Senior Campaign Manager’); Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group in the...
View ArticleSpeed humps in Waltham Forest: new evidence shows that activists’ call for a...
It is pleasing to report that the campaign for a review of speed humps in Waltham Forest is progressing well, led by determined activists in partnership with the Chingford Residents Association,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tory Deputy Leader Cllr. Afzal Akram fails to declare his company...
Afzal Akram is a councillor for Valley ward; ‘Voluntary Party Manager’ for the Conservative Party (previously having been ‘Senior Campaign Manager’); Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group in the...
View ArticleLBWF Monitoring Officer Mark Hynes rules that Cllr. Akram’s register of...
After investigating, LBWF Monitoring Officer Mark Hynes has ruled that Cllr. Akram’s register of interest form is up-to-date and correct, and issues in the past were caused because despite Cllr. Akram...
View ArticleLBWF’s top law officer Mark Hynes blocks a question about asbestos in the...
During the early 2020s, I spent a good deal of time researching LBWF health and safety matters, especially those which followed on from its 2015 court conviction for exposing staff and contractors to...
View ArticleThe Whitefield School abuse scandal: who knew what, when, and why is there...
Whitefield is a long-established academy school in Walthamstow with c. 300 pupils aged between three and 19, many of whom have severe or complex needs and are unable to communicate verbally. Over the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Leytonstone cartoonist Woox on Lord Cryer and You Know Who…
(Reproduced by kind permission of Woox)
View ArticleClik here to view.
New investigation reveals that since 2015 LBWF has failed to comply with the...
In 2015, the Conservative government introduced an updated version of the Local Government Transparency Code (hereafter LGTC) which set out the information councils must place in the public domain,...
View ArticleTown Hall shambles: Chief Executive Linzi Roberts-Egan slams the scheme that...
Sometimes LBWF surprises even those who have followed its antics for many years. As a previous post indicated, the Town Hall is now stuffed with several hundred senior managers, their number having...
View ArticleLBWF Director of Governance and Law Mark Hynes gets knocked back by the...
This blog has periodically highlighted the slipshod way that LBWF administers its information services, and the waste of time and public money which often ensues. In the last couple of years, LBWF...
View ArticleLBWF’s glaring failure to obey official – and mandatory – transparency rules:...
Slowly, and through persistent questioning, the full truth about LBWF’s disgraceful disregard for the mandatory Local Government Transparency Code (LGTC) is beginning to be revealed. My initial focus...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LBWF in Private Eye, once again about asbestos
From Private Eye No. 1630, 16 to 29 August 2024 PS Its good to see Mr. Hynes fingered by PE, as, by his absurd antics (see links below), he wasted a good deal of public money, which costs us all....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Air quality in Waltham Forest: Cllr. Loakes focuses on emissions, but new...
In the Summer 2024 issue of the council’s Waltham Forest News, Cllr. Clyde Loakes MBE, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Climate and Air Quality, reports: ‘“Waltham Forest has the lowest per capita...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cllr. Johar Khan appointed chair of the LBWF Pension Committee: cue questions
A week or so ago, one of Cllr. Johar Khan’s oldest confidants e-mailed me with the news that the great man had been appointed chair of the LBWF Pension Committee (PC). At first, I thought he was...
View ArticleLBWF’s glaring failure to obey official – and mandatory – transparency rules:...
Two previous posts on this blog (see links) have explored LBWF’s compliance with the mandatory Local Government Transparency Code, the document which specifies the 14 categories of information that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The number of senior staff in the Town Hall keeps rising, with a 38 per cent...
Recently released figures show that, between 2021 and 2023, the number of senior staff in the Town Hall increased from 317 to 437, that is by 38 per cent. This continues a trend going back to 2015...
View Article