Waltham Forest Echo #50, May 2019
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Your independent community newspaper Free WALTHAM May 2019, No. 50 Email [email protected] Facebook /WalthamForestEcho Tweet @WFEcho FOREST ECHO Visit walthamforestecho.co.uk Features News Comment Arts & Culture Sport Founders return to Report slams council How penalties for Comedy charity night Promotion back to celebrate 25th birthday as 'willfully ignoring dropping rubbish are announces Edinburgh Football League beckons of the Hornbeam Centre extremist activity' being driven by profit preview shows for plucky Orient P . 5 P . 6 P . 9 P . 12 P . 15 Youth violence report published by Alice Richardson, Local Democracy Reporter "Never forget prevention borough-wide report into youth violence is is better calling for early interven- tion, a halt to cuts and than cure" Athe prevention of school exclusions. The report by campaign group the report, titled Waltham Forest Waltham Forest Citizens has been Citizens Commission on the Civil produced through talks with more Society Response to Youth Violence. than 1,200 young people, schools Waltham Forest Citizens is already and youth services, and calls for acting on some suggestions and is more youth workers to be made increasing the availability of men- A climate demonstration outside Waltham Forest Town Hall was attended by more than 300 people available to help troubled children. toring opportunities, encouraging It says there is an urgent need to greater youth dialogue with the reverse cuts to youth services, provide police and offering work experi- Climate emergency declared greater support for children who ence through local organisations. have had adverse experiences early Leyton Sixth Form headteacher the bank cancel its investments in The demands include declaring in life and to intervene to prevent Gill Burbridge, who helped lead on by James Cracknell fossil fuels, including fracking. A a climate emergency, reviewing school exclusions. One finding was the creation of the report, said: spokesperson for XR Walthamstow the council’s carbon reduction that funding cuts to schools and “Schools have a duty to protect stu- ocal activists from Ex- said: “Instead of digging more coal plans, setting up a citizens’ as- youth services is “costing lives.” dents and staff from risks posed by tinction Rebellion (XR) mines, drilling more oil fields and sembly, creating a public action Kamahl Sami-Miller, a 22-year-old other students. However, the con- persuaded Waltham building more pipelines, we need plan to achieve zero carbon emis- member of Waltham Forest’s Youth sequences of excluding vulnerable Forest Council to declare to radically transform our energy sions by 2025, and protecting the Independent Advisory Group, students must also be considered. La 'climate emergency' and take infrastructure and build a green borough's biodiversity. said: “The first time I saw a stab- “Young people who have been action to slash emissions. economy that benefits the many.” A motion to declare a climate bing was a family friend; at the time excluded are often more suscep- More than 300 people attend- Prior to the XR protests in central emergency, proposed by Cllr he was only 13, I was ten. The stab- tible to being drawn into harmful ed a protest outside Waltham London that attracted worldwide Loakes, was due to be agreed at a bings turned him into a vegetable behaviours. A specific proposal of Forest Town Hall two days before attention, schoolchildren had been council meeting on Thursday 25th and after a few days the machine this commission is to urgently find the council was due to debate going on strike to call for action to April, as the Echo went to press. had to be turned off. Instead of the funds to shore up the loss of whether or not to agree to the tackle climate change, including in It states: “We now face a ‘climate waiting for these young people to youth services across the capital.” group's demands – a flower bed of Waltham Forest. Around 200 chil- emergency’ and urgent action is re- commit a crime or worse, prevent it. At the end of April Waltham lavender was even planted by dren also turned up at last month's quired to restrict global warming to “Send them to interventions, offer Forest Council was due to launch the activists in the shape of the town hall protest, with the demands a maximum of 1.5°C. This council counselling. Never forget preven- a new Waltham Forest Violence campaign's logo. made by XR Walthamstow being calls on the UK government to tion is better than cure.” Reduction Partnership, bringing Earlier in April they had also pro- handed to Clyde Loakes, the provide the necessary powers and Schools including Leyton Sixth together professionals from the tested outside the Walthamstow council's cabinet member for the en- resources to make local action on Form College and Connaught council, Met Police, local schools, branch of Barclays, demanding vironment, by four-year-old Aniela. climate change easier.” School for Girls helped draw up NHS and charities. Celebrating our 50th edition – turn to Page 2 2 No. 50 MAY 2019 WALTHAM FOREST ECHO COMMENT The problem with NHS outsourcing Local service collapse shows NHS outsourcing doesn't work, argues Norma Dudley from Waltham Forest Save Our NHS FELLOWSHIP IS LIFE eremy Hunt, in 2016 when This was Neighbourhood Mid- timately does not work, either for he was the health secretary, wives’ first NHS contract, and they patients or taxpayers, if we want "It exemplifies MAY 2019 – No. 50 promised that maternity started caring for pregnant women a safe reliable and comprehensive Waltham Forest Echo is an services in England would in Waltham Forest in November public healthcare system. the risk of independent community Jenable women to choose 2016. The service was popular Despite what's often said, the independent newspaper. We publish monthly personalised continuity of care, and clinically effective. A report to NHS has been rated one of the and distribute 12,500 free copies from a small team of named mid- Waltham Forest Council's health most cost effective healthcare providers of each issue to libraries, cafés, wives, throughout their pregnancy, scrutiny committee in March 2018 systems in the developed world. going bust" pubs, and other places around labour, and post-natal experience. found that the number of home Private providers are required to Waltham Forest. Although this sounds wonder- births and use of the midwife-led make a profit, which they can private sector will not touch, and ful, health professionals found Lilac Unit at Whipps Cross Hos- only do either by charging more however much it is overstretched Publisher it difficult to see how it could be pital had increased among women to the taxpayer or by reducing and faces funding cuts, it never David Floyd achieved when we were experi- using Neighbourhood Midwives. the quality of healthcare pro- closes for business. Editor encing the biggest sustained fall The contract was therefore extend- vided. Neighbourhood Mid- Importantly, outsourcing also un- James Cracknell in NHS spending for any period ed until November 2019. So imagine wives, while providing excellent dermines the NHS, by diverting Designer since 1951. the shock when expectant mothers care, ran into serious financial funding from local services. The Jonathan Duncan That same year Waltham Forest were given one week's notice that the difficulty reporting that “the only realistic way that any health Clinical Commissioning Group service would close on 31st January. payment system based on tariffs minister could ensure all women Manager (CCG) agreed a two-year contract During the remainder of their preg- was not designed for small in- have a personalised maternity Penny Dampier with Neighbourhood Midwives; nancy the women would have to dependent providers”. service would have been to sig- Contributors a social enterprise and private rely on mainstream NHS services, This exemplifies the risk of nificantly increase the funding of Norma Dudley, Alice provider whose chief executive, mostly from Whipps Cross. independent providers going all NHS maternity services across Richardson, Sally Brincklow Anne Francis, was a member of The sudden demise of Neigh- bust; the NHS then picks up the the country; a strategy which House, Gill Poulter, Charlotte NHS England’s maternity review bourhood Midwives demonstrates pieces. It cares for sick patients Waltham Forest Save Our NHS Palmer, Sue Wheat, Leo team at the time. why outsourcing NHS services ul- with complex needs that the would wholeheartedly recommend. Lawrence, Irena Barker, Ian Waterman, Stephanie Waterman, Louise Krzan, Sandrine Ceurstemont, Helen Bigham, Michelle Edwards, Youssef Taha, Sara Shokra, Celebrating our half century Jess Howe, Deborah Nash, Shelly Berry, Jim Nichols An introduction from Echo editor James Cracknell The member organisations of WFWellComm CIC are: council scandals and big wins for members and contributors, who Community Transport Waltham local campaigns. all help make this paper an en- Forest, Social Spider CIC, HEET. Launching a new print publi- tertaining and informative read cation, and making it successful every month. My job as editor WFWellComm CIC Board: in the long-term, is no mean feat often feels like putting together David Floyd (Social Spider CIC) in this era of sharp decline for a jigsaw, trying to put the various Tom Ruxton (HEET) the regional press. We're doing it pieces of the puzzle together and Helen Tredoux the hard way, surviving without hoping that the final result is one (Community Transport WF) any support from Waltham For- that is reasonably comprehensible est Council as it continues to publish and pleasing to the eye! its fortnightly taxpayer-funded By relying largely on voluntary publication against government contributors – who still write Waltham Forest Echo orders, and constantly fighting three-quarters of our articles – The Mill, 7 - 11 Coppermill Lane, E17 7HA to persuade potential advertis- it makes the paper an incredibly E [email protected] ello and welcome to May and everyone is welcome.