It is also important to stress that while violent crimes are still being committed, London remains one of the safest cities in the world. The Metropolitan Police have established a number of different initiatives to keep our borough safe, including the specialist Predatory Offender Units to arrest and charge those who carry out violence.

While we continuously work on preventative measures to stop these crimes from happening, we hope that women and girls of all ages across Barnet find this booklet useful. 

Door-to-door testing in N3 has now been completed. The Mobile Testing Unit in the car park in Finchley Central Station has also closed.

All positive COVID-19 tests from our targeted testing in N3 will be sent for genomic sequencing. This will help us to understand the spread of COVID-19 variants locally.

Update on surge testing in Barnet N10 and N11

Hadley Highstone is a Grade II-listed plinth-mounted stone obelisk, located at the junction of Kitts End Road and the A1000 in Chipping Barnet, and dates back to 1740. Barnet Council’s recent cleaning and conservation works helped return the structure to its original state ahead of the ceremony to mark the battle, fought on 14 April 1471. The surrounding area is protected as London’s only registered battlefield site.

Barnet’s residents are being urged to ‘shop local and shop safely’ in a campaign from Barnet Council to support businesses in the borough’s high streets and town centres when they reopen from 12 April.

The Discover Barnet campaign will run into the summer, encouraging residents to support local business owners to ensure Barnet’s high streets are able to overcome the damage the past year has done, and give them the support they need for a positive and thriving future.

Working in partnership with NHS Test and Trace, every person living in affected postcodes in Finchley N3 over the age of 16 is strongly encouraged to take a PCR COVID-19 test, even if they are not showing symptoms. Check if your N3 postcode is in the affected area.

The London Borough of Barnet has responded to the death today (9 April) of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Barnet Council discovered the property was an unlicenced House of Multiple Occupancy (HMO) after being called to the scene in Hall Lane by the London Fire Brigade. The tenants were lucky to escape without injury and council staff helped them find emergency accommodation, later identifying numerous breaches of the minimum safety standards for HMOs. An investigation by the council found that the property had no fire doors or fire extinguishers, and an inadequate fire alarm.

Barnet Council has today launched the ‘They’ve had the COVID-19 vaccine, will you?’ campaign which features three faces from different Barnet communities who have had the vaccine.

The campaign aims to reassure people from all communities that the vaccine is safe and effective and to encourage them to get the jab as soon as they are eligible to do so.

The team is made up of Angela Richardson, Mayoral Services and Civic Events Manager, Tim Kellman, Senior Mayor’s Support Officer, and Valerie Davis, Mayor’s Administrative Assistant. They were given the accolades – and £1,000 in prize money, which will help support the Mayor’s charity, the Royal Free Charity – by the National Association of Civic Officers.

The Government’s ‘stay at home’ rule has been replaced with ‘stay local’, but many restrictions will still remain in place.

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