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Category Archives: Youth Services
Council caught fly-tipping discarded furniture by youth club
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Volunteers, residents and even councillors have been ignored by officials, as council staff have turned a patch of open space into a dump. EXCLUSIVE by KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter Croydon’s part-time Mayor has his work … Continue reading
Council axes its annual grant to flagship Legacy Youth Zone
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the latest casualty of the council’s financial mismanagement The Legacy Youth Zone, a flagship development of Tony Newman’s Labour council, built with £3.25million capital investment from the Town Hall, is to … Continue reading
Kerswell considering cost-cutting 4-day week for council staff
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The cash-strapped council could reduce staff’s working hours on top of job cuts, under some of the latest solutions being offered to save money, reports KEN LEE Croydon staff could be placed on four-day weeks under one … Continue reading
‘Strong and stable’? Henderson is third to leave department
It was 2.43pm when the publish button was pressed yesterday at Inside Croydon Towers for our exclusive report of the imminent departure from the council of Rob Henderson, executive director of children, families and education. Two hours later, the council … Continue reading
Council’s prestige £6.5m youth project opening gets delayed
Four years after they announced the project in a flurry of mutual back-slapping, the council’s leadership has gone quiet as the Legacy Youth Zone has missed its deadline, reports KEN LEE There has been an unusual, for him, silence from … Continue reading
Thousands of families helped by £657,000 holiday club fund
Croydon Council has managed to make a successful bid for government funding, with a £657,000 award announced yesterday towards a scheme to provide free summer holiday activity clubs and healthy meals for children from some of the borough’s poorest families. … Continue reading
You’re hired! Council takes on two dozen apprentices
Croydon Council has taken on 24 apprentices this week as part of a campaign to create more training and job opportunities for local young people. The new recruits arrived as the council launched a campaign called Choose Your Future, encouraging … Continue reading
Negrini tells staff: ‘There are some things that we don’t do well’
While the government has had to step in to safeguard vulnerable children in the borough, Jo Negrini, Croydon’s £185,000 a year chief executive, has failed to apologise for her organisation’s failings nor taken responsibility for the shortcomings highlighted in today’s … Continue reading
Council’s ‘Rottweiler behaviour’ sent carer to brink of suicide
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Last week, we reported how the Local Government Ombudsman had found “a catalogue of unacceptable failings by London Borough of Croydon, which has left a family stretched to breaking point”. Here, in a shocking criticism of the way … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Croydon Council, Education, Youth Services
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, EHCP, Jo Negrini, Local Government Ombudsman, SEND
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Budget-busting 25 quid bribe ignores Croydon’s £1bn debt
Have you received your Council Tax bill this week? Wonder how Croydon Council can afford to pay out £25 to residents? With the Town Hall having accumulated £1 billion debt in the last eight years, SIMON HALL, pictured, says that, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Fieldway, Fly tipping, Housing, Mike Fisher, Refuse collection, Simon Hall, Steve O'Connell, Street lighting, URV, Youth Services
Tagged Bernard Weatherill House, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Fieldway, Fisher's Folly, Labour, Mike Fisher, Simon Hall, Steve O'Connell, Tory
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Budget consultation condemned as just “meaningless jargon”
Croydon Council’s “budget consultation” closed last night. Those residents who managed to find this under-publicised online exercise condemned it broadly for its use of impenetrable language and its many meaningless questions. Some complained to Eric Pickles, the local government minister. … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Education, Environment, Football, Health, History, Libraries, Sport, Tim Pollard, Youth Services
Tagged Big Society, Croydon, Croydon Council, Disability, Eric Pickles, Local government, London Borough of Croydon, Norbury
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Council to close New Addington library in September
Inside Croydon has received reports that staff at the Croydon Adult Learning And Training – CALAT – in New Addington have been told that the planned move of the local library into their building will take place in September. The … Continue reading
Where does the buck stop for Croydon’s damning audit report?
Last week, Mike Fisher, the leader of the Conservative group which controls Croydon Council, said: “It is important for us to ensure all necessary lessons are learned, and that public money is better safeguarded in the future. This needs to … Continue reading
South Norwood Community Festival: next Saturday, July 7
The South Norwood Community Festival takes place next Saturday, July 7, from 10am, offering a range of free activities, music and displays throughout the day, all in aid of local charities. Based around South Norwood Clock Tower on Station Road, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Charity, Community associations, Dance, Education, History, Music, South Norwood, Youth Services
Tagged Art, Bollywood, Croydon, Islamic art, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Norwood
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Concrete Croydon gets a pop-up youth club: for one night only
For one summer’s evening only, Croydon is going to be able to enjoy having a youth service. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it. “The Croydon Club” will have an official opening. And then it will close just four hours later. … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Andrew Pelling, Art, Church and religions, Community associations, Crime, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Croydon Federation of Allotment and Garden Societies, Croydon Greens, East Croydon, Education, Environment, Fairfield, Gardening, Parking, Property, Youth Services
Tagged Big Society, Conservative, Council, Council Tax, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, London, Rowan Williams
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