Social Value Ideas for North Yorkshire Council
We have identified 50 evidence-based social value themes for North Yorkshire Council in Yorkshire and the Humber across 43 service areas. These insights are derived from the latest council meeting transcripts and can inform your social value strategy for bids and tenders.
Home-to-school travel cost pressure
The council is under significant financial pressure in home-to-school travel, especially in children and young people's services. Officers said the 2024 policy was changed partly to control costs and …
“North Yorkshire Council continues to face significant financial pressures, never more so than in children and young people's services. Every pound we …”
Home-to-school transport referred
Council confirmed the home-to-school transport motion would not be debated immediately but sent to scrutiny because it was seen as a major policy change lacking proper prior scrutiny. The chair and ex…
“That the motion on hometoschool transport policy be referred to scrutiny board to determine which overview and scrutiny committee should consider the …”
Yorkshire Water AMP8 investment
Yorkshire Water outlined a very large capital programme in the Selby and Ainsty area under AMP8, including storm overflow upgrades, wastewater treatment works upgrades, sewer network upgrades, phospho…
“So overall, in AMP eight, we are spending £8,300,000,000 across the clean and waste infrastructure. 1,500,000,000 is specifically for the upgrade of s…”
Sewer and overflow monitoring
Yorkshire Water confirmed a major rollout of sewer telemetry and online water quality monitoring, including over 20,000 additional sewer monitoring points and 700 continuous water quality monitors by …
“We'll be installing continuous water quality monitoring upstream and downstream of, overflows to monitor for ammonia, turbidity, temperature, pH, diss…”
£20m children’s care reserve
The executive supported earmarking £20m within council reserves to implement the Homes for Children and Care Sufficiency Strategy. The money is not for immediate spend; future drawdown is contingent o…
“And to enable delivery of these priorities, there is a request to earmark £20,000,000 within council reserves. This is not funding that will be spent …”
High-cost children placements
Children’s services reported rapidly rising demand and very high out-of-county placement costs, with some children’s placements costing between £800,000 and £1.5m per year and capacity in foster care …
“We've also seen a cohort of children placed in high cost out of county provision, and approximately half of these placements exceed £500,000 per child…”
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