Councillors in Waltham Forest - Clyde Loakes, Neil Gerrard, Miranda Grell, Roger Evans (Paperback)

Chapters: Clyde Loakes, Neil Gerrard, Miranda Grell, Roger Evans. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Clyde Loakes is a British politician born in the East Midlands town of Kettering. He became Council Leader of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in north-east London, and in 2008 he was selected by the Labour Party as their prospective parliamentary candidate for the Northampton South Constituency in the 2010 General Election. In November 2008 the British Local Government Chronicle named Loakes on a list of the 50 most influential people in British Local Government. He was born in Kettering in 1970. He moved from Irthlingborough to attend university in Lampeter and after graduating settled in London. He worked as a civil servant at the Department for Work and Pensions between 1994- 2006. Loakes was elected onto the London Borough of Waltham Forest in 1998 as a Local Councillor for the Ward of Leytonstone. As a Waltham Forest Councillor he became the Council's Cabinet Member for Environment until 2003 when he became the Leader of the Labour Group on the Council and in July 2003 he became the Leader of Waltham Forest Council. He was re-elected as Leader of the Council after the local government elections in May 2006, and stood down in May 2009 to take up a position as Chair of the North London Waste Authority. At 35 years of age Cllr Loakes was the youngest Council Leader in Britain . At the same time the Borough of Waltham Forest had some tough challenges. The Social Services Department was rated one of the two worst in Britain, and a Government Inspection awarded them no stars in a grading of the value of their work. Morale among Council staff was rated as very poor and there was a very high turnover of staff and a shortage of headteachers in W...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2486759