Tower Hamlets Council is appealing for people to come forward and find out about becoming a foster parent. The council currently has 115 fostering households on its books, but it is always looking for more recruits. In particular it needs ...

Hundreds of residents took advantage of free activities and events hosted by Tower Hamlets Council during the February half term. •More than 1,500 people turned up to the council’s flagship event, Get Your Skates On, organised by the council’s sports ...

Young women and girls in Tower Hamlets who have experienced sexual violence can now seek support from a new advocate based in the borough. The Nia Project has received funding from the Home Office as part of the Government’s Ending ...

The future is bright for students from Tower Hamlets after Government figures showed an impressive proportion of the borough’s sixth-form leavers go on to university. The Department for Education released figures on 27th January showing the destination of Key Stage ...

Community groups in East London are taking a stance against female genital mutilation (FGM). The Ocean Somali Community Association and Tower Hamlets Council are co-hosting a conference to mark International Zero Tolerance on Female Genital Mutilation Day on Friday, 6th ...

Tower Hamlets Council will be encouraging everyone to take “time to talk” on 5th February to get more people talking about mental health than ever before. This is part of a campaign, led by national charity Time to Change, which ...

More than 60 residents from the Old Bethnal Green estate came together last month at the Minerva community centre to voice ideas on how to improve health and wellbeing in the area. The meeting was part of the Old Bethnal ...

G4S provides security systems for major Israeli prisons and detention centres, which hold Palestinian political prisoners from occupied Palestinian territory inside Israel. Human rights organisations have documented systematic torture and ill treatment of Palestinian prisoners, including child prisoners, detained within ...

Emdad Rahman interviews poet Kai Coggin “The best way to inspire creative young minds is to tell them that their voice is important, that it is unique in the world and there is no other voice like it.” Kai Coggin ...

The witch-hunt against Muslims in general, and in Tower Hamlets in particular, took an ugly turn on Thursday this week when an Ofsted Report into Sir John Cass & Redcoat secondary school was leaked to the press.  This led to ...