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Yorkshire & Humber councils
Official routes for democratic records, public money, planning, SEND and accountability.
Barnsley Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
Bradford Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
Calderdale Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
Doncaster Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
Hull Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
Kirklees Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
Leeds Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
North East Lincolnshire Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
North Lincolnshire Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
North Yorkshire Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
Rotherham Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
Sheffield Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
Wakefield Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
York Council
Official routes for council decisions, public finances, planning, SEND, complaints and access to information.
Democracy and governance
Finance and transparency
Services and rights
Combined authorities and regional public services
Use these records when powers, funding or decisions operate across council boundaries.
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Strategic transport, skills, housing, economic development and devolved investment for Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield.
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
Strategic transport, skills, housing, economic development and devolved investment for Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.
York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
Devolved transport, skills, housing, investment and economic development for North Yorkshire and York.
Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority
Devolved transport, skills, housing and investment for Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire. The constituent councils continue to deliver most existing local services.
Greater Lincolnshire and Humber oversight
North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire share policing, fire, NHS and economic links across the Humber and Greater Lincolnshire.
Region-wide organisations
SEND and EHCP transparency
National legal duties apply alongside every council’s Local Offer and local procedures.
Core legal framework
Assessment, plans and provision
Track the assessment request, decision, professional evidence, draft plan, final plan, placement and delivery of Section F provision.
Statistics and inspection
Independent SEND support
Public finance, contracts and audit
Follow spending from council approval through procurement, payment, delivery and audit.
Documents to compare
- Annual revenue budget and medium-term financial plan.
- Capital programme and project business cases.
- Budget-monitoring and savings reports.
- Statement of accounts and annual governance statement.
- Payments to suppliers and purchasing-card data.
- Contract register, tender and award notices.
- Senior pay, staffing structures and exit payments.
- Audit committee and external-auditor reports.
National procurement searches
Audit and value for money
Planning, housing and regeneration
Check local application records alongside strategic plans, development bodies and appeals.
Planning evidence checklist
- Application form, drawings and supporting statements.
- Consultation responses and statutory-consultee advice.
- Officer report and committee debate.
- Decision notice, conditions and stated reasons.
- Section 106 agreement and infrastructure contributions.
- Enforcement history and appeal records.
Policy and appeals
Housing and homelessness oversight
Health, education, social care and justice
Regional NHS systems and external inspection routes.
Integrated Care Boards
Schools and inspections
Adult and children's social care
Statistics and public data
Complaints, information rights and national scrutiny
Choose the route that matches the information or remedy required.
Public and environmental information
Your personal information
Maladministration and service failure
National scrutiny
Public transparency checklist
- Identify whether the council, combined authority, NHS body, police force or another organisation owns the decision.
- Search committee papers, forward plans, delegated decisions and registers before submitting an FOI request.
- Save the report, meeting date, agenda item, decision-maker, vote and declared interests.
- Compare the approved budget or business case with monitoring reports, final spending and measured outcomes.
- Search council contract registers, Contracts Finder and Find a Tender.
- For planning matters, retain the officer report, decision notice, conditions, obligations and appeal records.
- Use FOI for recorded public information, EIR for environmental information and SAR for your own personal data.
- Request an internal review where an FOI or EIR response is incomplete or poorly reasoned.
- Complete the relevant complaint process before escalating to an Ombudsman unless a statutory appeal route applies.
- Retain dated copies because online documents can change.
EHCP accountability checklist
- Save proof of when the council received the assessment request.
- Track the six-week decision point and the overall statutory process.
- Request every education, health, psychology and social-care advice document.
- Ensure Section B records all needs and Section F specifies and quantifies provision.
- Check relevant health and social-care provision in Sections G and H.
- Respond in writing to the draft plan and state the preferred placement.
- Record every occasion when final-plan provision is not delivered.
- Use annual reviews to update needs, outcomes, provision and placement.
- Use tribunal rights for appealable decisions and complaints for delay, maladministration or service failure.