Networking with Our Safer Neighbourboods Teams

Waltham Forest's Safer Neighbourhood Teams mingle with the borough's councillors

Congratulations to Cllr Afzal Akram, Waltham Forest council’s Cabinet Member for Community Safety and Member for Lea Bridge ward, for hosting an excellent “networking evening”, on Tuesday, for the borough’s local councillors and Sergeants, Police Constables and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) from our Safer Neighbourhood Teams Continue reading “Networking with Our Safer Neighbourboods Teams”

Waltham Forest Council’s Vision for Race Equality

Myself and Councillor Afzal Akram with Council Chief Executive Jacquie Dean

Councillor Afzal Akram, the new Council Cabinet Member for Community Safety (pictured above right), and I attended the launch of Waltham Forest Council’s new Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff forum today.

The Event, which took place at Waltham Forest Assembly Hall in Forest Rd, Walthamstow, saw over two hundred staff of BME origin come together for their new staff forum’s inaugural meeting Continue reading “Waltham Forest Council’s Vision for Race Equality”

Waltham Forest welcomes the Council of 2006

Check out that bling bling gown!

We’re off!

Waltham Forest Council held its Annual General Meeting on the 25th of May.

The meeting agreed the Council’s Leader, Cabinet Members and this year’s Mayor. It also agreed which councillors will sit on which committees over the coming year.

Internally, I will sit on the Children’s and Young People’s Scrunity Panel, Tenants Council and the Performance and Improvement Panel. Externally, I now represent the Council as the Chair of the Leyton and Whipps Cross Community Council and sit on the board of regeneration board O-Regen. I have also joined the board of the North Leyton Children’s Centre and have a number of other external projects, I wish to pursue, in the pipeline.

Labour Group 2006

As the largest elected political group, Labour holds six out the ten available cabinet positions.

I will keep you fully informed of further developments.