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BBC News
25-04-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Redcar and Cleveland Council sick days costing millions
Staff on the sick are costing a council about £2m a year in lost time, according to a new number of days lost per full-time equivalent employees at Redcar and Cleveland Council peaked at 9.66 days in 2023/24, a "significant increase" on just over seven days in authors suggested the findings were due to "the impact of consecutive years of austerity and recruitment freezes", with staff "being stretched ever further".The Labour-led council, which has won a better health at work award, has been contacted for comment. The financial losses were revealed in a report to members of the council's resources scrutiny committee, which added the days lost per full-time equivalent had recently dropped the 12 months to February the figure was 8.8 days, while the council's current, shifting target is 8.5 days lost per full-time equivalent member of report said: "The trajectory of sickness absence steadily increased from 2015/16, with the exception of 2020/21 when staff were shielding - the trajectory then steepened post-Covid."The top three reasons for sickness were given as stress, depression, anxiety and fatigue, along with hospital procedures, time-off required post-op, and chest and respiratory issues. Below other councils In the 12 months to February, 78% of council staff were off between one and 20 days, with 22% deemed to be long-term absent having taken more than three the past year, just under 140 staff were off ill from a workforce of approximately 2, council committee report, said last year's peak of 9.66 days was in fact below two other neighbouring councils – Stockton (10.8 days) and Hartlepool (10.31 days).The report said the council was working to bring down the figures, with a new managing health, attendance and wellbeing policy agreed last year and training provided for all added staff also had access to occupational health, physiotherapy and counselling 2023, a report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development showed the average rate of employee absence across the UK was 7.8 days per employee per year, which was even higher in the public sector at 10.6 days. Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Demonstration against waste incinerator plans
Demonstrators gathered outside a council meeting to protest against plans for a waste incinerator. Campaigners claimed the Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility (TVERF), which would be built at Teesworks in Grangetown, Redcar, was "unfair and dangerous". Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is one of seven across north-east England that would use the facility, burning up to 450,000 tonnes of waste per year to generate energy, according to plans. Protestor Dr Matthew Keegan said he believed it would directly impact on the community's health. Developers said it would be safe and sustainable. As well as Redcar and Cleveland, the incinerator would take waste from homes in the Newcastle, Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Stockton council areas. Redcar and Cleveland Council was due to vote on the plans but a decision is yet to be made. Ray Casey, from Stop Incineration North East, said councillors needed to "pause" and have a "rethink". He said: "We don't need an incinerator right now. "We are not advocating landfill either, what we are advocating is more modern material recovery facilities. "Recycle all of this material without landfilling it, without burning it". Independent councillor Tristan Learoyd, who brought the motion against TVERF, said: "There is nowhere in the world where there is a higher density of incineration than here in Teesside. "The massive carbon output from this incinerator will be larger than the whole of Redcar and Cleveland combined." Grangetown has the highest death rates from respiratory disease, and lowest average healthy life expectancy in England, according to a report on Left Behind Neighbourhoods by The Local Trust, a charity that funds community projects. Dr Keegan said there was a correlation to lung disease and development issues from outputs generated by incinerators, such as nitrous oxide. The price of living next to a 'monster' incinerator 'No alternative' to incinerator, council says Project partners from TVERF said facilities like the planned Energy from Waste (EfW) incinerator were a "reliable and safe technology" which have been subject to "intense regulatory and academic scrutiny over decades of operation". "The project represents the safest, most reliable and most sustainable way to manage our region's residual waste," they said. "Facilities are subject to constant monitoring throughout their operational life to ensure adherence to strict environmental permit conditions." Backers of the plan claimed it was "a continuation of practices that have taken place in Teesside for many decades without incident or concern". Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram. Burning your rubbish: The UK's big polluter Hazardous waste treatment plant plans denied Incinerator plan sparks health fears protest 'No alternative' to incinerator, council says TVERF Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council
BBC News
03-04-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Redcar incinerator council meeting demonstration
Demonstrators gathered outside a council meeting to protest against plans for a waste claimed the Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility (TVERF), which would be built at Teesworks in Grangetown, Redcar, was "unfair and dangerous".Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is one of seven across north-east England that would use the facility, burning up to 450,000 tonnes of waste per year to generate energy, according to Dr Matthew Keegan said he believed it would directly impact on the community's health. Developers said it would be safe and sustainable. As well as Redcar and Cleveland, the incinerator would take waste from homes in the Newcastle, Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Stockton council and Cleveland Council was due to vote on the plans but a decision is yet to be made. Ray Casey, from Stop Incineration North East, said councillors needed to "pause" and have a "rethink".He said: "We don't need an incinerator right now. "We are not advocating landfill either, what we are advocating is more modern material recovery facilities."Recycle all of this material without landfilling it, without burning it". Independent councillor Tristan Learoyd, who brought the motion against TVERF, said: "There is nowhere in the world where there is a higher density of incineration than here in Teesside. "The massive carbon output from this incinerator will be larger than the whole of Redcar and Cleveland combined." Grangetown has the highest death rates from respiratory disease, and lowest average healthy life expectancy in England, according to a report on Left Behind Neighbourhoods by The Local Trust, a charity that funds community Keegan said there was a correlation to lung disease and development issues from outputs generated by incinerators, such as nitrous oxide. Project partners from TVERF said facilities like the planned Energy from Waste (EfW) incinerator were a "reliable and safe technology" which have been subject to "intense regulatory and academic scrutiny over decades of operation". "The project represents the safest, most reliable and most sustainable way to manage our region's residual waste," they said."Facilities are subject to constant monitoring throughout their operational life to ensure adherence to strict environmental permit conditions."Backers of the plan claimed it was "a continuation of practices that have taken place in Teesside for many decades without incident or concern". Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
29-03-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Redcar boating lake test refill due to start
A test refill is set to begin on a historic boating lake that has been empty for lake in Newcomen Terrace in Coatham, Redcar, has been blighted by consistent low water levels for about three have been carried out and Redcar and Cleveland Council said it was "determined" to restore it to "a high standard".Members of Redcar Model Boat Club, which uses the lake, said they were "a little bit sceptical", but had their "fingers crossed" it would reopen soon. "We've raced cars, we've built mini yachts. We've tried all sorts of different things just to keep us amused," said treasurer Dale Patterson. The club is the only social outlet for some members and Mr Patterson said they had travelled several times to Hemlington Lake in nearby Middlesbrough to practise their hobby."We've got to keep the club going just to keep everyone's chin up," he said."Funnily enough, we've had one or two people saying they want to join, but it's hard to drum up any interest for a boating club without water." A number of repairs have been carried out over the winter, including the installation of new sluice and seals have also been repaired and painting is currently taking place, the Labour-led local authority leader Alec Brown said tests were due to begin next week, with an opening date potentially announced who met the model boat club in February, said: "I'm passionate about my town and I love the boating lake and I am determined that it will open again as soon as possible. "I hope that people will understand that problems do occur with popular attractions after many years."Mr Patterson previously said the 1930s lake was "the jewel in the crown" and fixing it would benefit the whole area."We'll put a lot of boats in, no doubt," he said. Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
18-02-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Demolition work set to begin in £10m Eston Precinct revamp
Demolition work is to begin in the next phase of a £10m shopping and leisure precinct.A demolition notice has been issued to transform Eston Precinct, near Redcar, from 5 May, with work expected to be finished by spring and Cleveland Council said most of the shops earmarked to come down have been vacated, with the rest expected to be empty by the end of March. Eston ward councillor David Taylor said there was a "list" of interested retailers in the project, although none had formally been signed up yet by the local authority. The £9.9m scheme is being paid for with government levelling up funds and a contribution from the Tees Valley Combined planned precinct will have seven or eight new units, along with 100 car parking spaces, the Local Democracy Reporting News Service said. Taylor said there were a few businesses "waiting to find suitable alternative premises" before the demolition, which is being undertaken by the company Esh. 'Long time coming' A cabinet report in 2023 said the ambition was to "transform" Eston and prevent the "continued decline of a deprived and neglected area" by attracting new retailers, shoppers and leisure users. He has previously said the regeneration scheme had been a "long time coming".A previous £6m retail scheme for the square and precinct area was shelved in 2021 with some remaining retailers complaining they had been left in limbo. Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram. Send your story ideas here.
