Crime

• Superhead ordered to repay council over £1m stolen from his school

  A superhead has been ordered to pay back Brent Council £1.4m he received in illegal bonuses while he was head of a school in Wembley.

  

• Sexual harassment is everyone's problem, not just the rich and powerful

  Is local government failing to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace? Mark Whitehead investigates.

  

• Pilot project helps a third of youths quit ‘county lines’

  Specialist support helped nearly a third of young people in a pilot project to quit 'county lines' involvement with drugs, according to a review.

  

• Rochdale council worker jailed for £80,000 fraud

  A council worker has been jailed for defrauding Rochdale Borough Council of £80,000 - money that was then spent on prostitutes and cocaine.

  

• Front-line workers ‘must get better’ at tackling child exploitation by drug gangs

  Front-line professionals ‘must get better’ at spotting signs that children are being exploited, a children’s charity has said in response to an annual assessment of county lines drug networks.

  

• Council worker jailed for £1m pension fund theft

  A man who defrauded the pension fund of Westminster City Council of over £1m has been jailed for seven years.

  

• Khan announces £85m to tackle violent crime

  Sadiq Khan has announced he will be using £85m of city hall funding to tackle violent crime.

  

• Whitehall must stop ‘rogue landlords’ receiving public money, council says

  Brent Council has urged the Government to stop rogue landlords who fail ‘fit and proper’ tests from receiving housing benefit.

  

• Crime prevention budgets ‘slashed’ under Tories

  Crime prevention budgets have been cut by more than a half since 2010, an analysis from Labour has revealed.

  

• Benefit assessors convicted of £1m housing benefit fraud

  Seven benefit assessors in London have been convicted of a housing benefit fraud worth over £1m.