Exclusive: SECRET emails have revealed months of wrangling and apparent confusion between senior council figures over York’s controversial Lendal Bridge trial.
The University has spent nearly half a million pounds on controversial gagging orders, known in legal terms as agreements containing confidentiality clauses.
UNIVERSITIES risk “letting loose on society” young professionals who are technically qualified but “barely know their stuff”, experts claimed as it emerged that entry requirements are being slashed. More than a week after A-level results were published, the scramble to fill undergraduate places on courses as varied as engineering, law and English literature is leading to “bargain basement” offers in clearing.
YORK council bosses have paid nearly £210,000 in three years to staff suspended for gross misconduct allegations, including violence, drink-driving, turning up for work drunk, and inappropriate sexual conduct. City of York Council paid £170,000 to suspended staff and an additional £40,000 in enhanced pay-offs for some employees dismissed for gross misconduct, The Press can reveal.
NEW evidence showing the extent of York Hospital ’s A&E crisis has emerged as it struggles to cope with longer waiting times, missed targets, and reduced staff numbers. Last year, 64 patients waited more than twelve hours in A&E before being discharged or moved to another department. This is more than seven times the number of patients who had to wait over 12 hours in 2011/12.
EDUCATION bosses in York have spent more than £135,000 on “gagging orders” for school staff since 2007. Over the past seven years, City of York Council signed 17 compromise agreements in educational institutions, all containing confidentiality clauses. In total 34 of the agreements were signed by the council, but they refuse to disclose the full cost.
9:37am Thursday 28th November 2013 in News By Mark Stead & Neil Johnston. Darryl Eastwood, of York Chocolate Story serves drinks to celebrate the opening of phase one of the King’s Square scheme watched by, from left, Aymee Smith, Coun Dave Merrett, Sir Ron Cooke, Stephen Spencer, Paul Thompson and Coun Sonja Crisp.
