Tower Hamlets council
DfE sets out improvements needed to Tower Hamlets children’s service
The Department for Education (DfE) has issued a formal Direction order to Tower Hamlets council due to the inadequate performance in children’s services revealed in the Ofsted report of April this year.
Landlord convicted after cramming 16 people into three-bedroom Bow flat
Nazrul Islam Bhuiyan was fined £4,750 and ordered to pay £1,429.68 in costs after pleading guilty to five charges under the Housing Act 2004 at Bow Magistrates’ Court after cramming 16 people into a three-bedroom flat.
Tower Hamlets Council fails to ban press reporting of fostering case
Tower Hamlets Council has failed in its attempt to ban press reporting of the case of a five-year-old Christian child being fostered with strict Muslim parents.
Five-year-old Christian girl placed into foster care of strict Muslim families
A report in The Times newspaper today alleges that a five-year-old girl, a native English speaker, was placed in the foster care of two Muslim families in Tower Hamlets who did not speak English and encouraged her to learn Arabic.
Deputy Mayor Rachael Saunders resigns
Cllr. Rachael Saunders (Labour, Mile End) has resigned her position as Deputy Mayor responsible for Health & Adult Services on Tower Hamlets council and will not be standing for re-election as a councillor in May.Sensible decision.Cllr. Saunders was criticised in an Ofsted report which condemned Tower Hamlets Children’s Services as being ‘inadequate’. Another day, another […]
