1. Drug Wars In Camden

WORK IN PROGRESS

NB the article i linked has been moved but I found it via the wayback machine below dated 

Thursday 13 February 2003 

Jason Gibson 29 stabbed to death in a flat in Gospel Oak, LB Camden 

updated 30 May 2021

Monday, 23 September 2019

2. Camden Drug Wars HERE

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30 May 2021

The below are 2 reports from 1999 about a female child whose name was Aliyah Ismai. 

She was 13, nearly 14 yrs old when she was found dead in a property in Agar Grove, Camden Town NW1.  She had died from an overdose of the heroin substitution methadone. 

She was in the care of Harrow Council

19 August 1999 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/unknown-female-neglected-by-carers-and-police-1.218050

Monday, October 4, 1999

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/464226.stm

Camden Councils Audit and Corporate Governance Committee

Camden councils Audit and Corporate Governance (ACG) committee HERE  grew out of the Audit committee HERE which was set up in March 2006 HERE

 

The Audit committee grew out of the then General Purposes(GP) committee. 

The GP committee goes back to Sept 2001 HERE - the first Terms of Reference (remit) of the committee put up on the councils website dates to July 2003 HERE

Currently 20 cllrs are on the AGC committee HERE
AGC Terms of Reference  HERE  

In 2004 HERE  the then General Purposes committee did a 'review' of the councils Financial Standing Orders (FSO's) Minutes HERE. FSO's are regulations that govern the management of the councils finances. There was also a 'review' of the council Contract Standing Orders HERE. No evidence from any one except council officers.

There doesn't appear to be been any deputations or evidence gathering in relation to the Financial Regulations other than from officers - report HERE

Financial standing orders are part of the councils Constitution - currently PART 4 Procedure Rules and Standing Orders HERE  

The General Purposes committee doesn't appear to have ever received deputations or evidence from members of the public.

GPs committee review (Feb 2006) of the need for a separate audit committee HERE which brought about the setting up of the Audit committee which held its first meeting on 29 March 2006 HERE

The newly set up Audit committee set about looking at work of the councils internal audit team - report  HERE. 

an extract from the report about why an internal audit service is needed:

• Section 151 of the Local Government Act 1972 requires every local authority to ‘make arrangements for the proper administration of their financial affairs’.
• The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2003 requires the ‘relevant body to ensure that an adequate and effective system of Internal Audit is maintained’.

The Audit committee received quarterly reports on the work of the councils internal audit team who seem to have a lot of work to do. 

The Audit and Corporate Governance committees first meeting was 25 March 2009 HERE