Since joining the cabinet in May 2022, Cllr Adam Jogee has been overseeing our work together with Haringey’s diverse communities to ensure that Haringey is a safe and welcoming place for everyone.
We look back at some of our achievements in this area over the last year, and look forward to what is in store for the next 12 months.
Highlights from the last 12 months:
- Our Weeks of Action initiative has seen services from across the council work together to address residents’ priorities in different areas of the borough. So far we have organised Weeks of Action in Bruce Grove, Wood Green, Crouch End and Tottenham Hale, and the latest edition is currently underway in Muswell Hill.
- Our hate crime prevention team has also done some vital work over the last year working with our communities to ensure that hate crime is prevented and responded to. The highlight was National Hate Crime Awareness Week in October, for which we organised a wide programme of activities to educate and take action against hate in our communities, engaging with community groups, council officers, the police, teachers, faith leaders and others.
- Key to this has been our multifaith forum, which plays an essential role in building bridges between our faith communities in Haringey, organising events from a communal seder night with our Jewish community to breaking the Ramadan fast at local mosques.
Looking forward to the next 12 months:
- We will continue to deliver Weeks of Action across the borough. As well as bringing a diverse range of services together, from our ASB and waste enforcement teams to drug and alcohol outreach and youth engagement services, these are a fantastic opportunities for councillors and officers to engage with residents and have candid conversations about the issues affecting different areas of the borough and how we can work together to solve them.
- This year we will build on our work to make the borough safer by developing and launching our new Community Safety and Hate Crime strategies, which will guide how we work to make the borough safer over the next four years. We will be opening a consultation on the strategies in the coming weeks, giving residents the opportunity to help shape this vital work.
- To achieve this, we need a police service which we and our residents can be confident to work with. It’s clear that the Metropolitan Police have too often failed to live up to this in recent years, as demonstrated by the publication of the Casey Review in March. Over the next year we will continue to challenge the police and engage in constructive dialogue to encourage the kind of community policing which will help to improve confidence and work towards the safer, more welcoming borough we all want to see.
