REBEL
school governors are squaring up to Town Hall bosses after
being left out of crucial plans to carve up Camden’s
high-performing education department.
The New Journal has learned how a mounting dispute over the
way schools in Camden will be run in the future could even
end with governors protesting with a mass resignation.
It is understood that some Labour governors – already
concerned by the unpopular appointment of Lord Andrew Adonis
to run schools on a national level – are considering
scrapping their party membership amid growing discontent with
planned changes in Camden.
The heated row centres on the decision by senior Labour councillors
to back government plans to merge the council’s education
department with social services.
In the Town Hall’s biggest ever shake-up, five departments
will be funnelled into three new ‘super-departments’
and a new Children’s Director will be appointed –
raising fears that the job could go to a social services expert
who knows little about education.
A SQUABBLE between three family doctors
could result in their Camden surgery – and its list of
around 6,500 patients – being split in two, the High
Court heard yesterday (Wednesday).
Judge Warren heard how Dr Marian Latchman was forced out of
the Regent’s Park Medical Centre in January after colleagues
discovered that she had complained to the General Medical
Council that fellow partner Dr Christine Pickard was clinically
incompetent.
Dr Latchman told the court: “I think she’s no longer
sound.” Despite these hostilities, Dr Latchman, currently
working as a locum in West Sussex, wants the court to order
the other two doctors to let her back in the Cumberland Market
surgery to see her patients.
LIBERAL
Democrats claim they can turn the Town Hall yellow after enjoying
huge gains in Thursday’s General Election.
They say the eleven percent swing away from Labour in the
Holborn and St Pancras constituency will provide the bedrock
for their plans to pick off vulnerable Labour seats in next
May’s council ballots.
The warning shots to Labour and Tory rivals came yesterday
(Wednesday) as Councillor Keith Moffitt was replaced Flick
Rea as Lib Dem leader.
He said the party has yet to sit down formally and discuss
tactics for next year’s council elections but warned:
“I don’t think you could say there are any safe
Labour council seats any more.”
CHAMPAGNE but not music greeted the
opening of the mixed pond at Hampstead Heath on Saturday
morning.
The pond is closed between September and May and swimmers
had hoped to take their first dip of the year to the strains
of traditional jazz played by Dartmouth Park clarinettist
Wally Fawkes and his band.
REBEL
school governors are squaring up to Town Hall bosses after
being left out of crucial plans to carve up Camden’s
high-performing education department.
LIBERAL
Democrats claim they can turn the Town Hall yellow after enjoying
huge gains in Thursday’s General Election.