York health, care and council bodies have worked together to organise the city s vaccination programme Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire PLANS to reorganise the health service in York and create closer links with social care are underway. City health leaders say the move will not change how patients get healthcare - but will enable health and social care services to work together better as well as tailoring services to the needs of the area. In York that could mean more focus on health problems faced by the local population, such as tackling the higher levels of alcohol-related illnesses recorded in the city compared to other parts of the country.
Keith Aspden: Leave York as it is to help the region’s pandemic recovery
24 February 2021
A proposal to merge York into a new east Yorkshire council should concern all unitaries that border district councils, writes the leader of City of York Council.
Keith Aspden. Photo: James Hardisty
Despite the ongoing pandemic, which has hugely stretched local government resources, the government has committed to its restructure of local government in North Yorkshire, launching its consultation this week.
Of the two options being consulted upon, however, only one can demonstrate a broad base of support from residents, stakeholders and political representatives. The outcome of the consultation on this matter will be a clear indication of whether the government’s stated commitment to localism holds true.
Huntington head teacher John Tomsett A LEADING York head teacher and chairman of the city s Schools and Academies Board has spoken of what he wants to see from the Government s roadmap to recovery for schools. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to tell MPs this afternoon that all pupils in all years can go back to the classroom across England from March 8. But John Tomsett, who as well as being Huntington School head teacher heads up the York Schools and Academies Board, said he s expecting the Government to give schools and colleges the detailed clarification they so desperately need to allow them give pupils the best education possible when they return.
All grades in York County will have the option of in-person learning by March 8, the district announced Tuesday. A message to families Tuesday evening said 11th grade is scheduled to return next Monday, 7th and 9th graders on March 1 and 8th and 10th graders on March 8. The timeline brings the county in line with many of its neighbors, which are pushing to have more students in schools by .
Maxine Squire, top, and Amanda Hatton, below, are urging people to keep children off school if possible THE number of pupils attending York schools during this lockdown is DOUBLE the number of key worker children in class during the first lockdown last year. City of York Council has made arrangement for some pupils to go to a different school than the one they usually attend because space has become so limited - but a spokesperson said no pupils have currently been moved. The council is urging anyone who can keep their child at home to do so, even if they qualify as a critical worker.