Tower Hamlets London Borough Council

Daniela's project is quite interesting actually.

It's a social sciences project that we've recently been awarded by EPSRC that's working alongside Tower Hamlets Council and a bunch of local GPs that's kind of come together to help us.

The whole project is centered around understanding the socioeconomic impact of osteoarthritis within our local community.

So the Tower Hamlets Borough has a catchment area of two and a half million people, which is incredible when you think about it.

We can understand who's out of work and why, or who's got a sick note and why, and whether it's due to a musculoskeletal condition.

But we don't understand, other than them being out of work, how that impacts the economy.

So we've clubbed together with Tower Hamlets Council, And they've agreed to give us access to the Department of Work and Pensions database as well.

And having spoken to a few MPs, turns out these systems don't communicate with each other and they're actually set up on different levels of software, which in my mind is completely ridiculous but daniella has now been given access to both of these systems and using completely anonymized data she's going to be able to put together all of this data so we can understand who's out of work for musculoskeletal condition how long they've had it for what benefits they may be receiving what additional help they may be receiving both in terms of social care but also in terms of work and pensions benefits these data don't currently exist at all across the UK.

At the entrance to Whitechapel Station, the name appears in both English and Bengali.

The bilingual signs were installed in 2022 with funding from Tower Hamlets Council, which said they were intended to recognise the contribution of the Bangladeshi community to East London.

So, I don't know about you, but I can't read the other sign.

Leila says she's concerned that it sends the wrong message to those who come to live and work in the UK.