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Child Q: School apologises for teenage girl’s ‘harrowing’ experience
Governing board accepts the child ‘should not have been left in the situation that she was’
Read MoreChild Q: Two officers who conducted strip-search removed from frontline duties
Police watchdog investigating three constables for their involvement
Read MoreChild Q: Metropolitan Police ‘taking racism claim very seriously’, says assistant commissioner
Louisa Rolfe, tipped as a possible successor to Cressida Dick, says Met accepts findings of safeguarding review
Read MoreFind out how you can help Ukrainian refugees at online community event next week
Hackney Council hopes meeting will connect residents who have spare rooms with community groups and fundraisers
Read MoreChild Q: Hackney Mayor calls on school’s headteacher to resign
Philip Glanville says move would ‘fully recognise traumatic impact’ of police strip-search on the girl and her family
Read MoreHackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation celebrates £250k premises overhaul
Hackney Mayor says refurbishment will see the long-standing charity continue its work for ‘many years to come’
Read More‘What we create has consequences’: Teenagers to be trained up in sustainable fashion as studio launches workshops in East London
CQ Studio to run programme in Poplar to prepare young people for jobs in eco-friendly fashion
Read More‘Greening the grey’: Clapton pupils help plant 780 trees on former industrial land at Millfields Park
More than 60 children from Rushmore Primary join planting sessions led by local volunteers
Read MoreMayor’s Music Awards celebrate best young talent in Hackney
Pupils and schools recognised at annual ceremony that featured stunning performances from past winners
Read MoreChild Q: Protestors hit streets over police strip-search of Black teenage girl at school
People gathered in Stoke Newington High Street outside the police station to express their anger and disgust
Read MoreChild Q: Councillors call for resignation of Hackney police borough commander
‘We no longer see you occupying the role of Borough Commander as a tenable option for our borough’
Read MoreChild Q: Hackney Mayor calls on Home Secretary to take action over strip-searching of children
Child Q was strip-searched in her school’s medical room, without a responsible adult present
Read More‘Strong about-turn’: Covid cases rise in Hackney following the lifting of restrictions
‘If these figures do continue they are signalling a very, very unwelcome change of trend’
Read MoreRussia conflict: mother recounts journey to escape war at Hackney gathering in support of Ukrainians
A mother spoke at a gathering in Hackney offering support to Ukraine, of the trauma of her escape from her war-torn country after taking cover in a bomb shelter . Fighting back tears Liudmyla described how life in Ukraine changed in a heartbeat. Just a few short days after her arrival in the UK and…
Read MoreMet Police apologises after black teenage girl strip-searched at Hackney school
Report finds it unjustified and says racism “likely” to have been an influencing factor
Read MoreCommunity garden and volunteer centre in line for funding boost as local NHS trust dishes out £1.8m
East London Foundation Trust announces mental health support grants, with five local organisations among recipients
Read MoreHaggerston bookshop to defend its title as London’s best independent at British Book Awards 2022
Burley Fisher Books reaches final shortlist in the category it won last year
Read More‘We can only hope it ends soon’: Hackney Speaker on his bond with Ukraine and his fears for the country following Russian invasion
Cllr Michael Desmond visited Ukraine a number of times during his previous term
Read More‘Community effort’: Local boaters rescue works of late poet Val Warner from Clapton skip
Warner’s friends, who had expected the books and documents to be archived in the wake of her death, call the disposal a ‘disgrace’
Read MoreCouncil tax to rise by over four per cent in Hackney – with warning of more ‘hard choices’ to come
Mayor blames a number of factors, including austerity, the hostile environment, welfare reforms and Covid
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