Sydenham Town Forum

NewsShopper has published its survey of many factors that measure patient satisfaction with their GP surgeries. It reports that Sydenham Green Group Practice was one of the poorer performers in terms of ease in getting through to the surgery. Survey shows best and worst GPs in south east London The ...

Stay alert everyone - here is a report from Newsshopper on a very elaborate scam involving a Sydenham resident who, with others, was impersonating a police officer. Be very aware of fake emails, fake phone calls, fake couriers and even fake police knocking on your door advising you that your bank de...

Well said Stuart. But if you put one bad apple at the bottom of a barrel and put 99 good apples on top - what do you get after a short time? The report detailed how corruption spreads. How good police people often have to choose between honouring their commitment to justice or having a career or pay...

From the Indie today. An independent panel said that although its investigation focused on historic failures stemming from the 1987 killing, the term institutional corruption was used “in the present tense”. Mr Morgan’s family called for commissioner Dame Cressida Dick to consider resigning after sh...

But - and it's a huge BUT - it is a catalogue not so much in the corruption at Catford nick - but both the cover-up and refusal to acknowledge the corruption in the Met itself. Instead as the report so strongly states - this was no less than corruption by the highest in the service. They did little...

A report from today's Guardian (14 June 2021) expands on the Official Inquiry's examination of the existence of links between suspects and the News of the World. Daniel Morgan report could link Rupert Murdoch empire to ‘criminality’ Panel has considered describing News of the World as ‘linked to’ mu...

Let me apply organisation names at a later date. Their ongoing existence will bear examination. The Archdiocese selected and appointed a contractor on a Design and Build basis. Let us label them Contractor A. The selection process is poorly managed with a due diligence process that failed to discove...

Not to answer or explain or amplify what JRW wrote, but the Archdiocese's position could be viewed as to lie between two extremes. On one hand the Archdiocese alluded to a view that an adverse decision would require them to withdraw from agreements made with Lewisham, close the school and demolish t...

Julia - thank you for the rapidity on the update . So the Archdiocese of Southwark seeks a judicial review of the planning Inspectorate's adjudication on OLSPN school and Lewisham Council has been served as a second respondent. I have no idea what they think they can gain from this, but it is absolu...

Previous reports on the release date of 15th June may be proving premature. Alastair Morgan reporting this evening (Monday 7th June) that final confirmation for publication has not been made. He reflects that Home Secretary Priti Patel and Dame Cressida Dick have previous in this long running debacl...

It's good that we can infer from reporting that the independent panel is discouraging HO redactions and is trying to ensure that only those properly justifiable may be made to the report. Not "hot-off-the-press" but a very important milestone has been reset with a revised publication date...

Hmmm. Let us wait and see. This commentary is so very typical of of many linked with the murder of Daniel Morgan. We should not forget that Daniel was a person, loved, cherished and mourned by his family and not just some object to be scrutinised and weighed for his potential impact on the unsavoury...

I don't know the details of the parents' concerns, I'm only reporting what I've heard at third or fourth hand. I gather the head teacher has written to parents seeking to reassure them, but I haven't seen the letter. Perhaps someone on this forum has seen it? I am not sure if this is the only corre...

The matter of a possible need to decant OLSPN was discussed vigorously at the PINs Inquiry. It flowed from what arrangements the school would have to make when remedial works (at that stage neither scale nor scope had been decided) would be carried out. Options were debated that ranged from "st...

From Saturday's front page of The Grauniad. Perhaps both as our local MP and Shadow Attorney General, Ellie Reeves can assist and write to the Home Secretary and make a demand that Priti Patel remove her unprincipled block on the publication of the report. Daniel Morgan’s son says Priti Patel has ad...

A robust response from the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel to Priti Patel is reported in The Grauniad. Patel's late intervention has been exposed as unprincipled and unwarranted as she clearly did not expect this quality of response with the measure of integrity that lies behind it. Daniel Morgan mu...

An excellent tweet from Cllr Alan Hall.

It has a copy of a statement made by the Independent Panel attached in response to the Home Secretary's two conflicting reasons for her decision to delay.

https://twitter.com/alan_ha11/status/13 ... 66660?s=20

Plus there was a connection with a senior person at 10 Downing Street and what was known, or not known by the then PM. A man whose judgement is under some scrutiny elsewhere at this time. But i guess many secrets will be taken to the grave. Or, to be precise, many graveyards. An astute observation....

In simple terms - it was never clear whether the location was finally agreed. Others will perhaps have better recall. In that area around the bridge over the railway, there are always questions about matters related to Conservation Areas, compounded by precisely who owned what portion of wall. I hav...

I think the way it ended was no agreement on design, location or how it would be funded Forum member JMLF expended a lot of effort and led a significant piece of work to produce a design, put fund-raising into place and conducted meaningful discussions about the proposed location for the mural. He ...