East End News Issue 42 'Operation Swamp '82'
Object
Newspaper
Object number
2026.42
Physical Description
Off white cover and back pge with black and red text. 'EAST END NEWS' in bold red font across the top. The inside pages are a brown/tan colour with black text.
Description
East End News was a local east London newspaper published between 1979 until 1986. Published news stories from Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and other east London boroughs. The paper was produced by locals who lived and worked in east London and functioned as a co-operative to be able to run the paper.
Material
Paper
Dimension
Width: 325mm
Length (Whole): 433mm
Length (Whole): 433mm
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No
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It's not often Commoner takes a trip to the House of Lords - least of all when looking for some enlightened thinking.
But last week saw the unlikely - and welcome - experience of a Tory Government Minister in their Lordships' House defending large amounts of public money being spent on deprived teenagers in Hackney.
And the Minister, Lord Elton from Social Services, slapped down fellow Tory Peers who complained that the cost of keeping a girl in Spurstone Centre - a home for disturbed young people in Hackney - was too much at £875 a week.
This was ten times the cost of accomodating a young lady at the most expensive girls' public school, complained Tory Peer Lord Gisborough. (He was at Eton, so he should know).
Lord Elton (who also went to Eton but taught in comprehensives since) told the nobles that Spurstone Terrace was for girls in a very disturbed state, in danger or exploitation or incest, who had been abandoned by their families and who might express their feelings by suicide attempts.
"In my view it's not unreasonable to spend at least a little more on those who have reached such extremities of misfortune than on the generality of young people who are better placed in life.
And, he added, Hackney would only be paying £400 a week because of a pooling system operated by the London's Children Regional Planning Committee.
Under pressure of more protests from Tory Lords, Elton said: "My impression from a visit, from reading the papers connected with the case, seeing some of the children in the classroom there and talking to the staff is that the work is invaluable. It is not merely assessment but also treatment. It will benefit society.
"Also, my impression is that the local authority is very well aware of the shortage of resources and of the need to administer its functions as efficiently and cheaply as possible."
Hear, hear!
But last week saw the unlikely - and welcome - experience of a Tory Government Minister in their Lordships' House defending large amounts of public money being spent on deprived teenagers in Hackney.
And the Minister, Lord Elton from Social Services, slapped down fellow Tory Peers who complained that the cost of keeping a girl in Spurstone Centre - a home for disturbed young people in Hackney - was too much at £875 a week.
This was ten times the cost of accomodating a young lady at the most expensive girls' public school, complained Tory Peer Lord Gisborough. (He was at Eton, so he should know).
Lord Elton (who also went to Eton but taught in comprehensives since) told the nobles that Spurstone Terrace was for girls in a very disturbed state, in danger or exploitation or incest, who had been abandoned by their families and who might express their feelings by suicide attempts.
"In my view it's not unreasonable to spend at least a little more on those who have reached such extremities of misfortune than on the generality of young people who are better placed in life.
And, he added, Hackney would only be paying £400 a week because of a pooling system operated by the London's Children Regional Planning Committee.
Under pressure of more protests from Tory Lords, Elton said: "My impression from a visit, from reading the papers connected with the case, seeing some of the children in the classroom there and talking to the staff is that the work is invaluable. It is not merely assessment but also treatment. It will benefit society.
"Also, my impression is that the local authority is very well aware of the shortage of resources and of the need to administer its functions as efficiently and cheaply as possible."
Hear, hear!