Richard Webb: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- North Yorkshire Council's corporate director for health and adult services
- Quoted on
- Adult social care & reform, Care home closures & provider failure
- Press citations held
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“Each hour of social care in our rural communities can cost £5 more than in other parts of the country because of the travel costs and the longer journey times between people - a single home care round can cover a geography larger than the size of London.”
What Richard Webb has said
“We always want people to continue to live in their existing home where this is the right decision for them and we are sorry to see that the Wilf Ward Family Trust has made this decision about its service.”
North Yorkshire Council corporate director for health and adult services · Care home closures & provider failure · 30 Sept 2026 · Closure of Sherburn House in Knaresborough could be 'death sentence' - dad ↗
“We always want people to continue to live in their existing home where this is the right decision for them and we are sorry to see that the Wilf Ward Family Trust has made this decision about its service.”
North Yorkshire Council corporate director for health and adult services · Care home closures & provider failure · 30 Sept 2026 · 'We need him close to us' - Care home closure causes upset | ITV News ↗
Where Richard Webb has been quoted
- Funding shortfalls delay hospital discharges - Selby care bossbbc.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Closure of Sherburn House in Knaresborough could be 'death sentence' - dadbbc.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- 'We need him close to us' - Care home closure causes upset | ITV Newsitv.com · 30 Sept 2026
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