In east London, the best jobs aren’t going to local people. A new school aims to solve that.

Is a model of social work that radically transformed child protection in one borough about to go mainstream?

A panel of locals enjoys a preview of the Channel 4 drama’s first episode, but finds plenty of flaws in Ronan Bennett’s supposedly realistic portrayal of life in the borough

Youth worker Emeka Egbuonu’s book has much to teach policymakers following the riots, writes Rachel Williams

Half the borough’s children live in poverty. Missing, too, are the summer courses that kept minds and hands busy

The Olympics have fuelled regeneration, but while many welcome the changes, some fear its character will be lost

Diane Abbott among those opposing involvement of anti-abortion charity in possible amendment to law

Boris Johnson has given youth violence a high profile, but needs to ask whether stop-and-search does more harm than good

Bright, popular, rebellious and creative, 21-year-old Louise Cattell had everything to live for. Then she made a fatal mistake. She took the party drug ketamine and was found dead in the bath by her flatmate. There are 125,000 other ketamine users in the UK. Louise’s parents want to make sure it never happens to any of them…