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Councils Need To Move Quicker For Slower Speeds, Says Living Streets
Local councils are being slow to respond to Government guidance which say 20 mph speed limits should be considered as a ‘priority for action’ on England’s roads, says Living Streets which launches it’s ‘Show you Love 20 mph’ campaign. Government figures show 453 pedestrians were killed on UK roads in 2011, the equivalent of a recent major train crash happening every week, says the charity. A significant number of those lives could have been saved if more local authorities were acting on the guidance and introducing area-wide 20 mph speed limits. Living Streets’ Chief Executive, Tony Armstrong, said: “It’s a scandal. If this number of people had lost their lives travelling by train or bus there would be an outcry, an inquiry, and immediate action taken to improve safety measures. The Government has given councils the green light to introduce more 20 mph speed limits which is quite simply an opportunity to save lives. Lowering speeds is proven to increase survival rates and has the support of the majority of people[1]. Go to the Living Streets website and let your local council know why you would love 20 mph in your neighbourhood.” Council in cities such as Bristol and Portsmouth…
Public Health Transfers To East Riding Of Yorkshire Council
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is taking over responsibility for public health from 1 April 2013, when NHS East Riding of Yorkshire will cease to exist. The move follows the Health and Social Care Act 2012, which returned a large number of public health responsibilities from the NHS to local authorities nationwide. Public health is about helping people to stay healthy and avoid getting ill, so services that will come under the council’s responsibility will include sexual health, drug and alcohol services, the national childhood measurement programme, school nursing, smoking cessation and health checks for people aged from 40 to 74 years. East Riding of Yorkshire Council is already taking a leading role in the development of health strategy, with the establishment of a Health and Wellbeing Board, which will be the forum to discuss performance with local partners, including Clinical Commissioning Groups, GPs, the NHS Commissioning Board and Healthwatch, the new consumer champion for health and social care. From 1 April, local authorities will have a duty to improve the health of the people in their area, and a responsibility for commissioning appropriat e public health services. Contracts for these services will transfer to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council…
Humber LEP Chairman Hails First Year Achievements
The chairman of the Humber LEP (Humber Local Enterprise Partnership) today acknowledged the strides made by the organisation in its first year and called for continued cohesive action to help build the Humber into the UKs ‘Energy Estuary’. Lord Haskins was speaking a year since the board of directors was formally appointed, with the LEP revealing an impressive list of achievements as part of an annual review which is published today. He said: “In our first year we have really started to build up a head of steam. We have helped secure the largest Enterprise Zone in the country along with £65m of Regional Growth Funding. We have also helped secure a reduction in Humber Bridge tolls and received national recognition for our renewable-energy potential. “This momentum will now be carried forward through the delivery of our five-year plan along with our work on Lord Heseltine’s pathfinder proposal for new pioneering ways of economic development and the application for City Deal status, which would see powers devolved to the region. “The progress made so far is a result of businesses, councils and education working together to achieve common goals. We must continue to develop those close bonds for the Humber to reach…
Council Tax : Important Changes Made To Benefits
Council Tax was discussed at a full council meeting on 9 January, East Riding of Yorkshire Council members agreed the new local council tax support scheme that will replace council tax benefit in the East Riding from 1 April 2013. On 1 April 2013 the current council tax benefit scheme will be abolished by the Government. This benefit is awarded to customers in low or no income households to help them pay their council tax. It is currently a national scheme paid for and regulated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). All local authorities have been required to design their own local schemes to support their residents who need help with their council tax from 1 April 2013. Pensioners are protected from these changes and will not see any changes to their benefits. The new scheme applies to working age residents only. The government is reducing the funding it gives to local authorities to support working age residents who need help with their council tax and East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s funding will reduce by £2.2 million. The council therefore had to decide whether to reduce the level of support offered to working age residents or find the savings from other services. The…
Key Stage 2 Results Best Ever In East Riding
Key Stage 2 Results by Primary schools in the East Riding have returned their best ever Key Stage 2 results, figures published today have revealed. Year 6 pupils achieved a combined result of 81 per cent at level 4+ in both English and maths – a three per cent improvement on last year’s figures. English at level 4 has improved by two per cent to 87 per cent, while at level 5 there has been an increase of 10 per cent, taking the figure this year to 38 per cent of pupils achieving this higher level of performance at the end of Year 6. Maths has also improved by two per cent at level 4 and above to 85 per cent and by five per cent at level 5, taking the figure this year to 40 per cent. The figures also reveal that the percentage of pupils making expected progress from KS1 to Key Stage 2 has also increased by five per cent this year to 90 per cent for English and by three per cent to 87 per cent for maths. Children in the East Riding perform above the national average and are second best in the Yorkshire and Humber…
Volunteers for European Employment : Europe Meets In The East Riding
East Riding of Yorkshire Council hosted the second Volunteers for European Employment, VERSO inter-regional meeting, which was held in the UK at the picturesque Cave Castle Hotel in East Yorkshire from 21 to 23 November. East Riding of Yorkshire Council is one of eight local authorities and four research institutions across Europe chosen to take part in VERSO (Volunteers for European Development), a project funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG IVC programme. They are working together to look at how volunteering can help tackle problems with rising unemployment across the European Union. The local authority partners met with knowledge partners to present examples of good practice and consider their relevance to the VERSO project. Further study of these examples, including a cost-benefit analysis, will be carried out by the university partners before the next meeting, which is due to take place in Detmold in April, 2013. As part of the UK event, a political briefing took place on the Thursday at 1pm, when a number of high-profile speakers discussed issues relating to UK and European volunteering policy. They included: Nick Stanhope, chief executive of We Are What We Do, a not-for-profit behaviour change company that works…
Council Tax Benefit and Exemption Proposals
Hull City Council’s Value for Money Overview and Scrutiny Commission will be reviewing recommendations regarding changes to Council Tax Benefits and Council Tax exemptions. Reports will then go to Cabinet, before Full Council makes a final decision on proposals on 20 December 2012. From April 2013, the national Council Tax Benefit scheme will be scrapped and replaced with Local Council Tax Support schemes drawn up by local Councils, leaving many of those who claim a Council Tax Benefit some what worried about the future. Under the new schemes, the Government is giving Councils less funding to help people who struggle to pay their Council Tax. From April, Hull City Council will receive approximately £2.9m less. These changes will not affect pensioners who will still receive the same levels of support as they did under the old scheme. Over the summer, the Council held a public consultation on its preferred local scheme, which would see those people who currently get 100% of their bill met by Council Tax Benefit having to pay at least 20% of their bill from next April. Since the consultation closed, the Government has made Local Authorities an offer of a one year only transitional grant on the basis that…
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