London Borough of Waltham Forest

Well, I think what this demonstrates, and I mean, London is totally amazing, you know, addition of two hundred and sixty-one councilors, two mayors.

Um, uh, I love Waltham Forest.

Zero to twenty-nine and running the council is just an amazing turnaround.

And we were always battling against the huge numbers of voters who would say, "I'd love to vote Green- That's a wasted vote.

How do you mean? Explain that.

Well, so when I moved home, I moved back to Waltham Forest.

And it just turns out that Waltham Forest is a borough which actually cares about doing the best they can for helping people like me.

So I needed to live in 24-hour care when I moved home because of my condition, it's possible for me to have adverse reactions, which causes my body to try and kill me, basically.

It's a weird side effect of spinal cord injury called autonomic dysreflexia.

It's very frustrating in some ways because I don't like having to be dependent in that way and not many people do.

But on top of someone to dress me, someone to cook for me, someone to do all these other things, there are also medical implications.

But when I went back to Waltham Forest and needed somebody living 24 hours, what was really great is that they got a local agency who they trusted to take over.

Where are we? What desert might this be?

Mirror of knighthood this is as I take it, the perilous Waltham Down, in whose bottom stands the enchanted valley.

Oh, Michael, we are betrayed, we are betrayed.

Here be giants.

Another part of the forest.

Enter Humphrey and Luce.

Good Mistress Luce, however I in fault am for your lame horse, you're welcome unto Waltham.

But which way now to go, or what to say, I know not truly till it be broad day.

Like, I think, you know, I think historically a lot of the ways grants are designed, I think as Jack mentioned, are quite piecemealed and kind of very focused on like, you know, local authority boundaries, which for us people working in local government, those boundaries are real, they're administrative.

But to, you know, a resident who might be living in, you know, a renter who might be living in, in Hackney one year and Waltham Forest the next.

Jack and I live in neighboring boundaries.

I don't know if I could tell you exactly where the boundary line between our boroughs [laughs] are.

To add a couple of things around that, just to support or, you know, align with what Zhong's saying around, we work very closely with the local authorities.

They're very, very central to our delivery model.

And the thing is, is that our service providers and, you know, the large housing associations, in a lot of ways those boundaries are completely artificial between, you know, Hackney and Waltham Forest.

It doesn't matter.

Trust,

Islington Council, Lewisham Council, London Borough of Waltham Forest.

So we've got pretty good coverage in terms of where we are in the country.

Greater Manchester, I also mentioned.

Could you take us to the scene of the crime, talk us through it and tell us what happened?

Yeah, I can't take you to the scene because I've been banned from Waltham Forest as conditions of my parole.

So if I go to Waltham Forest, I'll breach my licence back in jail.

Maybe you lot could go there, get some photographs of the street.

When you get the photos, I'll talk you through it.