With snow and icy weather forecasted to sweep into the region this weekend, North Yorkshire Police is advising drivers to take every precaution to keep safe.
The cold snap is predicted to last around two weeks so it is important to be prepared and respect the dangers that such conditions can bring.
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The Council has published the results of its monitoring inspections of local care homes.
There are 44 residential and nursing care homes in the City.
There are 4 Homes which currently have compliance issues listed against them. Two homes have one improvement action, one home has two improvement actions and one Home has three improvement and one enforcement actions. All the information from CQC is within the public domain and customers can also access details regarding inspection reports from the Council’s website.
In addition the Council is monitoring 38 organisation which provide home care in the City. 14 have issues requiring attention in the Councils view.
93% of all providers in York are meeting all essential standards. The equivalent figure nationally is 72%.
The Safer York partnership are reporting a continuing decline in levels of crime in the City
There was however a steep increase in October – the only month doing which crime levels were above targets.
There are some problem areas with “assault without injury (up 17%) Aggravated vehicle taking (up 75) and gun crime (up 250%). The gun crimes represented only 5 incidents.
There have been big increases in auto crime in Clifton, Huntington and Rawcliffe.
Burglary is a growing problem in Haxby, Heworth and Hull Road.
Within the last seven months there have been approximately 195 burglaries of garages within York.
These account for 28% of all burglaries in York as they can be recorded as a domestic or non-domestic burglary depending on if the garage is integral to the house or external.
• 30% of these garages were insecure
• 30% of these garages were entered by bending back the main door
• 15% of these garages were entered through breaking or removing a window
• 15% of these garages were entered by forcing the back door
• 10% of these garages were entered by other means such as having a key, using an external door, removing bricks or coming through the roof.
Despite reductions in the volume of material sent to land fill, Council Taxpayers face a bill of £3.3 million this year. It is the highest ever and reflects the failure of the Council to achieve its recycling targets.
The report does not take into account the recent problems with waste collection at Christmas but they do reflect the Councils decision to close the Beckfield Lane recycling centre last spring.
The Landfill Tax bill in 2008 was less than £2 million.
