News for the community, by the community.
In Havering, it’s easy to assume poverty is someone else’s problem. But beneath the surface lies a stark reality: thousands of residents—children, pensioners, and working adults—are quietly struggling to make ends meet.
As parents across Havering head to work over the Easter holidays, countless children are being left to their own devices—literally and figuratively—with little to no access to meaningful activities or safe spaces.
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Spread a Smile, has announced a new partnership, with Queen’s Hospital in Romford, part of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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The Havering Emotional Support Team (HEST) supports children and young people who may be experiencing mild to moderate emotional wellbeing difficulties in educational settings as part of the Whole School Approach.
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In 2023, the latest figures available, 2142 children under five were admitted to Queen’s Hospital with respiratory difficulties. Across 22 London hospitals surveyed, more than 15,000 children were admitted with serious breathing difficulties. .
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Bereaved parents have been begging and pleading for help to stop knife crime. Nobody has listened and here we are, with two 12 year old children found guilty of killing a 19 year old.
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The data shows that one in five children aged between four and five years old are obese or overweight, as are two in five aged between ten and eleven.
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Human rights go beyond politics and Labour counsellors Pat Brown and Franky Walker – along with Havering Conservatives, including Cllr Judith Holt, Cllr David Taylor and Havering Conservatives leader and London Assembly member, Cllr Keith Prince – spoke up for children with disabilities and their carers,
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There is no more important indicator of the state of a country than the wellbeing of its children. The Tory Government has failed our children.
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Parents sent a detailed complaint template to question the legal integrity and validity of the original HRA motion; it appeared premeditated to push through with a proposal based on a consultation report that – according to the Cabinet’s own admission – had not yet been read.
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Saner Muharrem, 25 was sentenced on Friday, 12 January to five and a half years imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court after he was previously convicted of 11 offences following a two-week trial. The offences included inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and sexual activity with a child.
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‘Our children can’t fight these proposals themselves, so we are relying on you to do the right thing because they do not deserve this.’
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St Edwards Ward Councillor Nisha Patel has helped raise over £3,000 for children’s charities and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Councillor
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Hornchurch mother starts petition in a desperate bid to save transport for disabled children and young people in Havering. Ruth
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Shocking figures have revealed almost 78,000 London children are homeless and set to spend Christmas in temporary accommodation, according to
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Some of our fondest childhood memories take place in the great outdoors. From making dens and climbing trees, to getting
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For hundreds of families throughout London and Essex the festive period bring stress, worry and desperation instead of excitement, joy and magic. Many children will not receive
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