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Philip Glanville Labour Mayor of Hackney Mayor’s Report September-October 2017 Philip Glanville Labour Mayor of Hackney Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street, E8 1EA Tel: 020 8356 3220 www.hackney-labour.org.uk / [email protected] Twitter: MayorofHackney or PhilipGlanville / Facebook: PhilForHackney Mayor’s Diary Highlights October 26 Dear Member, Bridge House Regeneration visit to the Welcome to my September to October Mayor’s Report. start on site of new Council Homes Thanks to everyone who took part in the Hackney Ideas Factory earlier in the Twitter #GrillPhil month, an update will be going out to wards shortly, but we had double the Hackney Grants Programme Meeting attendance of 2013 and are now looking at over 500 ideas from across the Gangs and Crime Performance party. Meeting with the Police and Cllr This month we have continued to put pressure on the Government about the Selman devastating impact of Universal Credit, which is still due to go fully live in HCVS Voluntary Sector Awards Hackney in June next year, I have written to the Secretary of State outlining my concerns and while we welcome some of the climb downs on supported October 25 and temporary housing we still have significant concerns. Meeting with Hackney Apprentices Alongside colleagues we are continuing to campaign on police cuts, the freeze with Cllr Williams in SEND funding, the failure of the Government to fully commit to ending the Meeting with David Montague, CEO of threat of cuts in wider Education Funding, as well as the lifting of the Public L&Q and Chair of the G15. Sector Pay cap. Hackney Council Below in my full report I outline the progress we are making around October 24 increasing the opportunities available in Hackney for people to access jobs, employment advice, skills and training. Central London Forward Board Meeting Closer to home I have alongside councillors, trade unionists and Labour London Legacy Delivery Corporation members continued to support the Picturehouse LLW campaign and recent Away Day campaign sessions at Well Street and Hoxton East, this weekend alongside Diane Abbott MP I will be helping to launch the Cazenove Campaign. London Labour Housing Group 2018 Manifesto Meeting and Speech Best wishes, PS and don’t forget to get your tickets for Hackney Fireworks: http://news.hackney.gov.uk/fireworks-set-to-wow-hackney/ Page 1 of 15 Hackney Police Cuts Campaign I have mentioned before in my reports about the impact that police cuts are having in Hackney and our representations to both Central Government and the October 23 Mayor of London on this issue. Following the passing of a Labour motion on this Inside Housing Debate on Community, issue last night at Full Council Cllr Selman and I are stepping up our campaign. Regeneration and Placemaking Capital Board As you may know due to underfunding by central Government (a combination of Britannia Board actual and real terms cuts), the Metropolitan Police has had to make £600m of savings since 2010/11. It is now faced with having to find a further £400m of Hackney Cabinet savings by 2020/21. October 22 FIFA Event Hackney Marshes As a result of these cuts, in the past four years the MPS has had to lose more Stoke Newington Music Festival than 100 police stations and 2,800 police staff and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs). In Hackney we have lost 1 in 4 of our police officers. October 21 #HackneyatHome Campaigning in In 2015, we issued a clear public warning that reductions in officer numbers was Hoxton East and Shoreditch putting Hackney’s long-term downward trend in crime at risk. Government has Emerald MacMillan North London failed to listen to our (and others’) warnings and as a result police numbers have Fundraiser in Tottenham Irish Centre continued to fall, and crime rates to increase - a trend that is also being played with the Speaker out London-wide (offences up by 4.56% FY 16/17) and nationally (20,000 police October 19-20 officers lost, police recorded crime up by 13% in the last 12 months). In March, LGA Training we wrote to the Home Secretary reiterating this warning: Hackney Showroom: Frau Welt http://news.hackney.gov.uk/hackney-calls-for-fairer-police-funding/ October 19 Last night Hackney Council passed a motion: resolving to run a high profile public Visit to Kings Crescent and handing campaign, calling on Government to #FoottheBill and: over the keys to one of the right to return residents returning to a new • Commit now to no further cuts to the Met Council Home. Meeting with Islington and Camden • Increase the Government’s Police Grant, which makes up two-thirds of Councils to talk about how we can police funding nationwide, so that our streets can be kept safe work better together on Housing. Hackney ESOL Graduation Ceremony • Increase the funding that the Met receives for policing a capital city, so and Awards at the Hackney Empire that London gets a fair deal. with the Speaker. Hackney Council Long Service Awards Residents who also wish to write to Government to raise their concerns directly can find further information on the Council’s website: www.hackney.gov.uk/foot- October 17 the-bill Meeting with Bobby Kasanga and Hackney Wick FC Hackney Labour Group Page 2 of 15 Special Education Needs & Disability (SEND) funding The funding of SEND is a hidden crisis in our education system and is threatening October 15 the quality of education and support we can offer to our most vulnerable young people. The National Funding Formula rightly sparked a national debate, but this Hackney Ideas Factory Day Two funding freeze means councils are running out of choices, as a freeze in Hackney Labour Picture House Living government funding for pupils with special educational needs means councils in Wage Protest London are being forced to plug a funding gap of £100m. October 14 High needs funding, which allows local authorities to support young people with Hackney Ideas Factory Day One special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), has effectively been frozen Hackney Singers Concert since 2011-12. This is despite a major increase in the pupil population and reforms in 2014, which significantly increased the number of children who are October 13 eligible to receive support, leading to a 34% increase in the number of young Visit to Second Home and meeting people Hackney supports. with Rohan Sliva October 12 In Hackney there is a funding forecast shortfall of over £6m, but the impact is being felt across the capital. Research carried out by London Councils found that, Local Democracy Week debate with in 2016/17, 26 out of 31 London boroughs reported a combined funding shortfall Hackney Youth Parliament and of £100m. students from Petchey Academy As a council, our primary job is to look after our most vulnerable residents, so Debate on the importance of local press at Goldsmiths University turning off the tap is not an option. To meet this shortfall, councils are using money from other education funding pots, and are drawing on reserves – which October 11 is not sustainable in the long term. Next year funding is expected to rise by 0.5% - Meeting with Liam from Great British but this is nowhere near enough to fill the shortfall. Bake Off Briefing with Hoxton West Councillors Of course, this all comes at a time when local authorities are having to make on Housing Supply Programme continued, unprecedented cuts. In Hackney we’ve had to save over £152 million since 2010 – and will need to find a further £30 million by 2021-22. We just don’t Meeting on the new plans for the have the luxury of shifting money around anymore. So where do we go from Marian Court Regeneration here? Visit to the North London Muslim Centre and Debate In Hackney, we will be forced to reduce the amount of high-needs top-up funding October 10 we give to schools by 5 per cent. Reducing funding is absolutely the last thing we want to do, and it’s a hard decision to make. We’ve given schools plenty of London Councils Labour Group advance notice of the proposals, but we know that for some it’s going to have an London Councils Leaders Meeting impact and will mean they have to plan things differently. London Councils Congress with the Mayor of London During the public debate around the national funding formula, the government heard clearly how important adequate and sustained funding for schools is to London Chamber of Commerce Dinner and debate parents and teachers. It’s now vital that we have the same debate about SEND funding, and Cllr Anntoinette Bramble, Deputy Mayor, has written to the education secretary, urging her to reform how this vital funding is calculated and distributed, taking into account the growth in demand alongside actual spend. This work has been picked up in the TES and also Evening Standard: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/london-councils-warn-of-100m- black-hole-threat-to-school-funding-of-special-needs-pupils-a3661716.html Page 3 of 15 The gradual erosion of funding for this most vital of services threatens to have a huge impact on the children, parents and carers who need it most. It isn’t simply a matter of finance – inadequate funding will affect young people for the rest of October 9 their lives. Evening Standard Debate at HereEast It is absolutely crucial that the Government changes the way that this vital funding is calculated and distributed, and take into account the growing demand. Hackney Half Marathon Debrief with Virgin Sport and Cllr McShane Deputy Mayor Bramble, councillors, candidates and Labour activists joined Fair New Council Candidates Induction Funding campaigners from Hackney at the National Protest of Parliament yesterday where they met with Meg Hillier MP and Diane Abbot MP raising these October 8 issues and the wider challenge of Education funding.
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