Concerns have been expressed about the extent to which some children will get support to eat in school holidays, as the council launches a new, less generous application-based support system – part way through a school holiday. Previously the council used Government funding during the Covid pandemic to issue free…

A youth club that used to run from the old Burton Stone Community Centre is back up and running on Friday nights in a brand-new venue. Children and young people aged 11 to 18 can now drop in fortnightly to the new community hall at Marjorie Waite Court on Friday…

Labour has welcomed the sacking of the council’s lead councillor for children, after consecutive poor Ofsted inspections of children’s services. Ofsted identified poor service practice around children at risk of harm years ago, before saying those same services has deteriorated when they revisited York.  The latest inspection this year confirmed…

Councillors are to write to Government seeking a longer term solution to the problem of children going hungry in school holidays, after ruling councillors in York made a single year commitment to help tackle the problem. Eligibility for free school meals has risen by 33% overall in York over the…

Plans to turn a dance studio and boxing club into nine apartments will be decided by councillors, after Holgate Labour Councillor David Heaton requested the application be considered in public. Most planning applications are decided by council officers, under delegated powers.  But due to the level of public interest, and…

York is in the top ten of cities in the country for footfall recovery, indicating a city centre economy that is bouncing back. Latest figures come from Centre for Cities, a national think tank, and are based on anonymised mobile phone data and offline credit card spend. However, city councillors…