From their one-star rating, to one of the highest Council Taxes in London, to their failures in child protection, to the financial incompetence over Alexandra Palace, it’s the same story: high taxes but dreadful services.
Labour-run Haringey is one of the worst performing councils in London. Ofsted have said that when they inspected Haringey with regard to child protection – Haringey gave them misleading information.
Haringey Council spends money like water on consultants and temps and agency workers – and bungled plans that get aborted, wasting everyone’s time and money.
And Haringey Council likes snooping – using the powers granted originally to fight terrorism to now spy on all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons nothing to do with terrorism. However, when it comes to prosecuting fly tippers or enforcing planning applications – those appear to be areas they avoid. Much easier to target the law-abiding for cash than the criminals. With 40% of parking tickets refunded – they should be charged for wasting our time!
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- Local residents face a new year with the staggering prospect of Council Tax bills in Haringey topping £1,500 after Labour councillors refused to support a Council Tax freeze despite funding being available from government to halt any tax rises. Liberal Democrats have renewed their call on Labour-run Haringey Council to freeze Council Tax in 2012/13 [...] read on
- Local Liberal Democrats have expressed their frustration and disappointment after Labour reconfirmed yesterday their commitment to the closure of Haringey’s older people’s drop-in centres and luncheon clubs despite overwhelming opposition to the proposals from service users and local residents. A special meeting of the Council’s cabinet was convened after Liberal Democrats forced a review of [...] read on
- At a packed Overview and Scrutiny on Monday, the decision to close drop-in centres for the elderly in the borough was sent back to the Labour Cabinet for review, after Liberal Democrats successfully highlighted the issue. The decision was made after both Liberal Democrat and Labour members asked Adult Services lead member Dilek Dogus to [...] read on
- As a result of action by the Liberal Democrats, Haringey Council has been forced to rethink controversial plans to re-structure and close local children’s centres. The Labour Cabinet member for Children and Young People on Thursday announced the Council had relented in the face of pressure from head teachers, governors and councillors and decided to do more [...] read on
- A recent Guardian report has highlighted how Haringey Council has admitted that action to cut wasteful spending could have been taken years ago. Local taxpayers, faced with the closure of older people’s day centres and cuts to children’s centres, youth services and parks, will be outraged to learn that these cuts could been avoided, Liberal [...] read on
- On the day that marks 40 years of continuous Labour rule in Haringey it has been revealed that the borough is more deprived than at any time in the past decade. Liberal Democrats have branded new deprivation figures, which show Haringey as the 8th most deprived authority in the country, as “the legacy of Labour’s [...] read on
- Plans to reverse Labour’s closure of older people’s day centres, drop-in centres and luncheon clubs are part of the Liberal Democrat’s alternative budget proposals. In the five amendments to Labour’s budget, to be proposed on Thursday (24th Feb 2011), Liberal Democrats have set out their choices for spending priorities which would protect older people’s services, [...] read on