As with most councillors in Southwark I’ve seen relly tricky anti social problems resolved by Southwark mediation service – the award-winning charity.

Sadly its funding from Southwark is ending. Amazingly the Labour cabinet member in charge of relations with charities Cllr Abdul Mohamed didn’t know this. He also denied that the charity had found it impossible to speak to any Labour councillors about this closure. Perhaps the cllr PA’s and secretaries have fended this charity away without checking with cllrs.

The council is proposing to train its own staff, who are quite often the subject of the mediation, to provide this service. Great fig leaf but hardly credible.

As reported before Southwark has the money to keep such services but Labour has decided to poor money into its reserves for a future rainy day….