Thousands of Croydon children who qualify for free school meals can now sign up for free activity clubs with healthy meals over the summer holidays.

With the easing of official restrictions on 19 July, I want to ask everyone in Croydon to take this next step safely, together.

Croydon Council is beginning a new phase in its bid to drive down Covid-19 rates by getting more people in the borough to regularly take a rapid lateral flow test.

Croydon Council is continuing to make progress against its renewal plans to get council finances back on track and put the borough on a more sustainable footing.

It was a huge privilege to meet staff and volunteers at our Selhurst Park vaccination clinic, and to thank them and all our frontline workers for the vital role they are playing in keeping Croydon safe.

Croydon Council has agreed details of a public referendum that will ask residents if they want to change the borough’s governance arrangements.