Category Archives: Eleni Ioannides

Croydon now has three employees paid £200,000+ per year

Posted on April 16, 2020 by

Our political correspondent, WALTER CRONXITE, reports on the latest startling figures coming out of the council Croydon Council had three members of staff who took home more than £200,000 in the last financial year for which figures are available. That’s … Continue reading →

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Pendry named by Town Hall as new children’s social care chief

Posted on November 1, 2018 by

Nick Pendry has been named as the council’s new director for early help and children’s social care, due to take up his post in the troubled children’s services department in January. Pendry will report to Robert Henderson, who last month … Continue reading →

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Croydon social workers ‘demoralised’, say Ofsted inspectors

Posted on October 26, 2018 by

One year on and Ofsted inspectors are still seriously dissatisfied with the pace of improvement in Croydon’s children’s services department. Croydon’s children’s services were declared “inadequate” in an Ofsted inspectors’ report in September 2017, and today the inspectors have issued … Continue reading →

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Ofsted finds Croydon children in ‘neglectful circumstances’

Posted on August 3, 2018 by

Another day, another damning critique from a government agency of Croydon Council’s inability to manage the services it is supposed to provide. And yet again, no apology for the failures, nor acceptance of responsibility, from the council’s political leadership or … Continue reading →

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New Children’s Services director and a record of Ofsted failures

Posted on May 30, 2018 by

Town Hall reporter KEN LEE has found another instance where Croydon’s newest director has received strongly critical reports from Ofsted Further details have emerged of the of the career of the woman hired to fix Croydon’s failing Children’s Services department. … Continue reading →

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Council hires children’s exec with Ofsted failure at previous job

Posted on May 16, 2018 by

Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on how Croydon’s replacement as the head of its failed Children’s Services department is someone who last year presided over another very troubling inspectors’ report Jo Negrini, Croydon’s chief executive, has announced today that the … Continue reading →

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