Barnet Council has urged the Government to deliver on promises of supplementary funding to help support the maintained nurseries in the borough.

Maintained nursery schools look after a wide range of children and in Barnet are the Moss Hall Nursery School and the Barnet Early Years Alliance Nursery schools, Brookhill, Hampden Way and St Margaret's in New Barnet.

A group of young creatives from Barnet were awarded ’Best Group of the Year’ for their short film Generation Verified, at a virtual awards ceremony on Friday 22 July.

The film, coproduced with Youth Realties and commissioned by Barnet Public Health’s Resilient Schools Programme, was an opportunity for the students to experience all aspects of scriptwriting, acting, film making and directing.

The Mayor of Barnet awarded twelve-year-old, Sophia Wolfe, a special certificate yesterday, 27 July, for swimming one-hundred lengths of Copthall swimming pool raising £688.75 for a local charity.

Sophia decided to mark her Bat Mitzvah by swimming the 2.5 kilometres in her local pool for Dementia Club UK, a charity close to her heart, as her grandma attends their sessions.

Last night at Barnet Council’s committee meeting councillors voted to pass Cllr Linda Lusingu’s motion ensuring Black History Month is fully recognised and that funding is allocated to support it.

The motion calls for Barnet’s diverse communities and organisations to be supported to promote events throughout the month of October every year and given access to funding, with a programme of events co-designed with schools, headteachers and council officers.

The process, which follows a three-month public consultation last year, was formalised this week with the signing of the official designation document by the authority’s CEO, John Hooton.

The affordable homes scheme at the Upper and Lower Fosters estate was co-designed with residents, neighbours and local community organisations to decide what to build, where and how.