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Students from Clapton Girls' Academy gathered to see their GCSE results

“The power of positivity”: Hackney students celebrate some of their best GCSE results yet

Students across Hackney are celebrating some of their best GCSE results yet.

Education
An empty, sunlit school hall with polished light-wood floring in the closed Oldhill Community School

Displaced Hackney school finds temporary home in Oldhill building

The former Oldhill Primary School building in Stamford Hill will temporarily become the home of a local independent Jewish school

Education
Young people, teachers and Council representatives celebrating their results at The Excelsior Academy in Hackney

Results day in Hackney: “Now I can begin a bigger and better chapter of my life”

Hackney young people celebrate their A-levels, T-levels and BTEC results

Education
A row of colorful children's bicycles and scooters parked against a white brick wall and a blue metal rack

Hackney Council demands urgent national review of the childcare system

Hackney Council launches borough-wide, evidence-led campaign to drive national childcare reform

Children and families
Education
Caroline Woodley, Mayor of Hackney-2 cropped

Mayor welcomes ‘generational reforms’ to Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Mayor Caroline Woodley welcomes the Government’s publication of the SEND White Paper

Education
A form with the Hackney logo and the title One Page Profile, with cells with the text to be filled: What you can do to help me, My name is, I am years old, What is important to me, My strengths and talents, My dream is to, What helps me to regulate

Ofsted inspectors recognise Hackney’s improvements in supporting children and young people with SEND, but more work to be done to improve consistency

Education
Children and families
Four displays summarising the first four priorities of the new Education Strategic Plan as presented during a consultation event in 2025 in one of the Hackney schools' libraries

Beyond outstanding: Hackney’s new education priorities focus on equity and inclusion for all children

A new Education Strategic Plan outlines the priorities for the next three years

Education
Town Hall-9

A statement on Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy

Our response to the Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review into the school.

Education
Proposed new entrance to the school approached from Powell Road - illustration created by Gollifer Langston Architects as part of the feasibility study for the Baden Powell site

Vacant Hackney primary school set to re-open as specialist facility for children and young people with SEND

The former Baden Powell Primary School would be repurposed to offer 48 new special school places 

Clapton
Education
A form with the Hackney logo and the title One Page Profile, with cells with the text to be filled: What you can do to help me, My name is, I am years old, What is important to me, My strengths and talents, My dream is to, What helps me to regulate

Hackney’s services for children and young people with SEND to be inspected by Ofsted and the CQC

Education
Cllr Anya Sizer, Deputy cabinet member for families, early years and SEND, Cllr Carole Williams, Cabinet member for employment, human resources and equalities, and Mayor of Hackney Caroline Woodley

Supporting our children and young people with SEND

A message from Caroline Woodley, Mayor of Hackney, and Cllr Anya Sizer, Deputy cabinet member for families, early years and SEND

Education