The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced £75,000 of funding from his Young Londoners Fund for to the Arts Depot Trust to deliver a programme called MINE. The programme will deliver an arts engagement & access programme targeting the most disadvantaged communities in Barnet through a referral network. The programme aims to use Minecraft digital gaming and a live […]
Read morePlease see here for the Governemnt’s log of advice should the UK leave the EU without a deal.
Read moreDear editor, At City Hall’s Fire and Resilience Committee Gary Strong, global building standards director at the RICS, said that some private building owners did not want to disclose they have Grenfell type ACM cladding, because this is a really expensive problem, and some were reluctant even to get their cladding tested and did not want to tell the Government […]
Read moreDear Editor, I welcome plans for a new Violence Reduction Unit at City Hall, particularly as we’ve seen something of this kind have real results in Glasgow. This is a positive step forward which builds upon the stringent action the Mayor of London has already taken to clamp down on violent crime and increase the help available to the most […]
Read moreA report by audit firm Grant Thornton has laid bare the stark failings of Barnet Council’s One Barnet contract. The report was commissioned after a Capita employee was found to have committed over £2 million worth of fraud over two years, by submitting fictitious Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPO) payment requests on regeneration estates, which were paid into the perpetrator’s bank […]
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