🎉 Happy #InternationalDayOfPlay! Last September, Islington passed the 'Play in Islington' motion—committing to making our streets and green spaces more playful, inclusive, and child-friendly. Together, we will keep building a borough where play is for everyone, every day🛝🌳

Look out for more news about our work in this area, and how you can get involved. In the meantime, find out more about our Child Friendly Islington vision here:  https://t.co/aCPFWoX4rL /4

In the coming weeks and months, we'll be inviting you to join us to empower children, young people, their families, and community partners to shape a greener, healthier, safer, inclusive place. /3

So, I'm excited to announce the launch of our work around Child Friendly Islington, a key mission in our Islington Together 2030 plan. /2

We are determined to make Islington a great place for our children and young people to grow up - an essential ingredient in ensuring success is listening to young people and working together to build a better future for the borough. /1

Despite austerity cuts to our funding we have continued to invest in early intervention that protects young people from exploitation but one person injured or killed by crime is too many. Last week I joined @drjohnwoolf to write to the PM, encouraging him to take action ⬇️

We're determined to create a greener, healthier Islington together, and part of that includes planting more trees! 🌲 🌳 We invited pupils from @AmblerSchool, @GillespieSchool and Grafton primary schools to come together to plant our latest tree in Gillespie Park.

The Council is running loads of events for kids throughout the summer, offering places to go and things to do during the school holidays. Please do share this tweet and other Council social media posts to promote it and share with local people https://t.co/WwokrPt8WL

Congratulations to our wonderful Parent Champions and staff in our Young Islington department for their excellent work in empowering parents and carers in Islington and Camden. *2

A huge thank you to our Islington Parental Support Project. Funded by the London Violence Reduction Unit, the programme won the London Government Chronicle (LGC) Children's Services award tonight. *1

Islington #foster carers and colleagues celebrated the crucial role they have in keeping children close to friends, schools and social networks with a walk as part of #FCF23, highlighting the need for more carers. Find out if fostering is for you: https://t.co/Kck1D7uBEA

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I am proud of the work Islington schools are delivering to ensure our children grow up in a world where race equality can be achieved. #ActionDrivesChange

Cllr Santiago Bell-Bradford and I spoke about our roles in embracing people's culture and heritage for today's #RaceEqualityWeek Challenge. A person's name is part of their identity so we must commit to saying it correctly. #ItsEveryonesBusiness

We have nearly completed distributing laptops to the new year 7s who need them as we promised in May. Our tweet below: https://t.co/LIiTajt78c

Play streets are such a great way of allowing children to enjoy their local streets as generations did before them. We are trying to make it as easy as possible if you do want to join the growing number of streets already doing this. https://t.co/AESDQxcH7L

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We are deeply saddened that a young person was fatally stabbed in Islington yesterday evening. If you have any information please contact police on 101, tweet @MetCC and quote CAD 7948/4Aug, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 Read more:  https://t.co/ww7XJX3tSq