Which York Car Park?

This was the scene today in one of the car parks frequented by visitors to the City.

With the Beckfield Lane recycling centre closed and 33% of Yorks litter bins already scrapped, it was only a matter of time before waste and rubbish became an eyesore problem.

The Council are also planning a further £550,000 cut in waste collection service budgets over the next 18 months with the green waste collections most at risk while “same day” collections may become a thing of the past (collection of recyclables and residual waste will be on different days of the week).

So things are likely to get worse before they get better.

City of York Council, Askham Bryan College and York College have secured over £400,000 to support young people with learning difficulties and disabilities after successfully bidding for Department for Education (DfE) funding.

The DfE announced an opportunity to bid against £40m in April to offer funding to support Local Authorities and involve funded providers of post 16 education and training, to whom the capital funding will be transferred directly.

City of York Council has secured £36,200 (and £100,000 council capital spend which was approved at budget Full Council), to create a new learning space and additional places within a new Autism Hub. It is hoped the hub will be placed within the former Oliver House elderly people’s home, which is set to be a new Health and Social Care Hub.

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City of York Council has prosecuted the parent of four children, aged 10, 11, 14 and 16, who failed to attend school regularly

York Magistrates Court heard (on 28 June) that the youngest child, aged 10, who is registered at a primary school in the city, had failed to attend on 21 out of a possible 142 occasions between October 2011 and February 2012.

The child had an absence rate of over 15 per cent which compares to the city average in primary schools of less than five per cent.

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