Issue - meetings

Refreshed Governance Arrangements for York’s Human Rights & Equalities Board (HREB)

This report will describe the outputs and recommendations of work undertaken by the Council of the City of York (“CYC”) and York Human Rights City Network (“YHRCN”) to refresh governance arrangements and Terms of Reference (“TOR”) for the HREB.

Additional documents:

Annex A - Draft Terms of Reference HREB, item 68 PDF 128 KB View as HTML (68/2) 23 KB

Decision:

Resolved:

i. Approved the refreshed governance arrangements included in the report including the new Terms of Reference for the Human Rights and Equalities Board at Annex A of the report;

ii. Noted the response to the YHRCN Annual Indicator Report.

iii. Noted the plans for developing Human Rights & Equality Analysis (“HREA”) to support decision-making and plans for subsequent officer training.

Reason: To allow the Human Rights and Equalities Board and its

members to move forward in ensuring that York delivers against its commitment as a Human Rights City.

Minutes:

Assistant Director Customer, Communities and Inclusion introduced the report noting that the previous administration had sought to recommit to York as a Human Rights City. This followed a fundamental breakdown of the relationship between CYC and the York Human Rights City Network (YHRCN) due to City Centre Access decisions made by the previous administration in 2021.

Executive Member for Finance, Performance, Major Projects,

Human Rights and Equalities noted the Executive’s disappointment that the HREB was allowed to breakdown due to decision’s taken by the Council. She thanked all those involved in re-establishing the board. The Executive acknowledged the importance of human rights and noted that the Council required a board it could challenge and be challenged by.