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Easter service changes

During the Easter period, some of our services will be operating slightly different hours. Our council’s bin collection schedule will change for one week starting on Friday 29 March to make sure everyone’s waste is picked up around the bank holiday.

See the full schedule and your amended rubbish and recycling collection dates and other service changes including parking and library opening times over the Easter period.

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The Fairness Commission

Despite its wealthy image, Islington is the twenty-sixth most deprived local authority area in England, with extremes of rich and poor.

The Islington Fairness Commission (IFC) was set up in June 2010 to look into how to make the borough a fairer place and published its final report and recommendations in June 2011.

Read the full IFC Final Report (PDF) to see how we went about it.

The work of the fairness commission was widely praised for the pioneering way in which it went about seeking to address inequality of wealth, health, housing, education and crime in the borough. Since the report was published, many other authorities have since established their own fairness commissions to tackle levels of inequality and poverty around the country.

The council and key partners have engaged in wide ranging efforts to deliver the actions in the report. We have made good progress in implementing the recommendations, such as becoming the first Local Authority to gain accreditation as a London Living Wage employer in 2012.

Several years on, “working towards a fairer Islington” continues to be Islington Council’s overarching vision.

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