Tower Hamlets Council is encouraging people to consider adoption ahead of National Adoption Week (19-25th October) – particularly children over the age of four, the average age of children waiting to be placed in adoptive families. The Council is encouraging ...

A cycling strategy aimed at making Tower Hamlets one of the easiest and safest places to cycle in London has been unveiled by the council. The new Cycling Strategy sets out the Council’s plans and aspirations to make cycling more ...

The third main item on the agenda of the Tower Hamlets Council meeting on 16th September was questions from members of the public. This does allow members of the public to raise issues with the Council, but each individual is ...

African Families Service The first public petition to be heard at the Council meeting on 16th September came from the Pastors and Community Leaders Group, asking the Council to note their opposition to the African Families Service being cut. Labour ...

Tower Hamlets marked the first ever annual Memorial Day to remember victims of honour based violence last week with a number of installation events outside the borough’s Idea Stores. The council’s Domestic Violence and Hate Crime organised the Day to ...

Tower Hamlets Council is supporting a unique London-wide campaign to cut HIV infection across the capital. It’s the first time there’s been such a London-wide campaign, but there is a very big need for it – research shows there are ...

It has been revealed that Tower Hamlets Council officers have been working to improve the environment in and around the banks and financial institutions on the private Canary Wharf site. The Canary Wharf Group (CWG) which manages the private site ...

Tower Hamlets Council has issued a warning to retailers and consumers regarding unlabelled containers of palm oil. The Council’s Food Safety Team believes containers of the palm oil contain an illegal dye, Sudan IV. Sudan IV is considered to be ...

Cllr Golds is now giving his report. He says that the public asking questions were answering prepared questions which had been put in to support a THF General Election candidate, but THF had not had the confidence to stand. He ...

Now Cllr Danny Hassell is asking for motion 12.10 to be taken next.  This is agreed. More: question 6.10, from a member of the public, is being taken too, as it informs the motion. Ms Emma Price is asking her ...