Hackney London Borough Council

And that's because we're starting with the case of Ackerman-Livingston and Astor communities.

And we're ending with Zed and Hackney London Borough Council.

We'll be covering topics from procedural law to Section 15 and Section 19 claims, reasonable adjustments claims, the public sector equality duty and positive discrimination.

Today we'll talk about the case of Bracking and the Secretary of State for Working Pensions decided by the Court of Appeal in 2013.

Regional analysts are warning that the situation is deteriorating fast, with unresolved peace deals issues still unaddressed.

And our last, but certainly not least, headline takes us to Hackney, where Hackney Council is set to install a commemorative plaque honouring a pioneering Jamaican figure and the Dawson Club that they founded.

The recognition comes as part of this year's Black History Month programme across the borough.

Local historians say that the honour is long overdue, given the venue's role as a cultural hub for the Windrush generation.

He didn't last very long.

He went down, he worked for Hackney Council, and then he became a plasterer with his friend Martin.

I was in a band after university, and then I...

The bass player and I, Colin, the bass player, we started decorating, doing decorating jobs when we weren't on tour to actually make a bit of money because it was pretty hand-to-mouth.

So I'm pleased to say I got over the nappy rash.

But during that seven months, I was also made a ward of court through Hackney Borough Council, which saw me incarcerated then for the next 14 years of my life in the care system.

My first 14 years was, like most kids in the care system, blighted with physical, sexual, emotional abuse.

And I've always said, you know, that these young people in the care system are Because there are a lot of misconceptions about kids in the care system.

And it is, yep, a story which left surreal behind quite a long time ago.

Charity is the woman with an eight-year-old disabled and autistic son and the family is facing eviction from their council home of about 20 years by wacky Hackney council.

And here's the crux of the situation.

If Charity does not bail to Hackney Council's ultimatum that she leaves her council flat and moves into temporary housing this very Friday, she and her little disabled boy will be evicted from their council home by bailiffs and plonked into some rat hole somewhere,

if they're

lucky.

And Charity simply did not know that this transfer needed to happen.

So Charity kept living in the flat, kept paying the rent, and worked two cleaning jobs a day to pay for it.

You know, you just tell me when you're completing.

That's fine." I said, "What you gonna do? You gonna let it out again?" He said, "Well, I've thought about it, but to be honest, I've got to apply for a license from Hackney Council to let the property from now on, and it's gonna cost me a grand." And now I look this up, and it's not totally true.

It's actually gonna cost him £925.

So he's exaggerated slightly.

If you're using, like, your council waste, you're not.

Like, in Hackney Council, the recycling is quite mad.

Like, 80% of the recycling that goes in the recycling bins ends up in landfill.

Oh, God.

I did a little dance around the city this weekend because a friend sent me some news from London where I used to live.

Now, there's a council in London called Hackney Council, and this week they banned meat and dairy advertising across all of the borough of Hackney.

Now, that is amazing.

That is just amazing to me.

latest episode of the Public Health Tackling Racism and Inequality podcast.

Today, I have with me Jacqui Burke, who's the Executive Director for Children Education at Hackney Council.

Welcome, Jacqui.

Thank you, Sandra.

There's a whole host of things within that that I'm accountable for.

Okay.

It's going to be a slightly parochial conversation because we're both from Hackney Council, but hopefully there'll be some wider learning for the whole of London.

But I'd like to start by saying when you came into Hackney a few years ago, we already said we were doing anti-racism work.