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Category Archives: Outside Croydon
Angry parents launch petition demanding SEND action
The parents’ campaign group seeking better care and education for SEND youngsters are collecting signatures for a petition demanding action by Sutton Council. As Inside Sutton reported this week, families with children, teens and young adults with special educational needs … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Schools, Sutton Council
Tagged Hayley Harding, SEND, Sutton Council, Sutton EHCP Crisis Campaign Group
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Freedom! Are Crystal Palace residents ready for breakaway?
The week-long Crystal Palace Festival gets underway tomorrow with a weekend of music and dance in the park. But because of the local borough geography, the organisers and other groups have to deal with five, even six, local authorities, which … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Bromley Council, Comedy, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Dance, Lambeth Council, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Music, Poetry, Southwark Council, Theatre
Tagged Bromley, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Festival, Lambeth, Lewisham, London, Noreen Meehan, Southwark
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Bonham selected by LibDems to seize Assembly seat chance
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports that while Labour in London is sitting on their hands over next year’s Assembly elections, their polling booth rivals are already getting to work Chuka Umunna, who was elected as the Labour MP for Streatham … Continue reading
Posted in Caroline Pidgeon, Claire Bonham, London Assembly, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey, Sutton Council
Tagged Caroline Pidgeon, Claire Bonham, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Siobhan Benita, Sutton Council, Tory
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‘Families are at breaking point as a result’ of council action
Here, unedited, is the full text of the letter sent on behalf of the Sutton EHCP Crisis Group, to Ruth Dombey, the leader of Sutton Council. The letter was dated June 10. Dear Councilor Dombey, We are the members of … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Ruth Dombey, SEND, Sutton Council
Tagged Hayley Harding, Jenny Batt, Marian James, Ruth Dombey, SEND, Sutton Council
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Parents threaten to take council to High Court over SEND
EXCLUSIVE: Officials in Sutton have suppressed a report that slams council leadership over its failing services for special needs and disabled children, as a campaign group threatens a Judicial Review with angry parents maintaining that the council’s private service provider … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Ruth Dombey, SEND, Sutton Council
Tagged Conservative, Hayley Harding, Jenny Batt, Liberal Democrats, Marian James, Ruth Dombey, SEND, Tom Drummond, Tory
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All aboard the Uber bus, as Sutton starts a 12-month TfL trial
A ‘demand-responsive’ bus service has come to south London, and TOM BOWELL, pictured left, got on board to put it to the test Transport for London has recently begun a 12-month pilot of demand-responsive buses in Sutton. Like Uber mini-cabs, … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport
Tagged GoSutton, Sutton, Sutton Council, TfL, Tom Bowell, Transport for London
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