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Richard Webb

Chief Executive (Head of Paid Service), City of York Council

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Quoted in the press, across 2 topics since 17 Nov 2025

YORK
OfficeCity of York Council, York, YO1 6GACity of York Council is based in York Central: the organisation’s base, not a personal address.

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Richard Webb: key facts

Kind of voice
Regulator
Role
Chief Executive (Head of Paid Service)
Organisation
City of York Council
Organisation based in
York Central
Quoted on
Care home closures & provider failure, Adult social care & reform
Press coverage
Quoted in the press
Most recently quoted
22 Jan 2026
First quoted
17 Nov 2025

03  Profile

Who Richard Webb is

Richard Webb is Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service at City of York Council, a post he took up in April 2026. Before that he was corporate director of health and adult services at North Yorkshire Council, which he joined in 2014.

In that role he led adult social care and public health, plus partnerships with the NHS and supported housing. He began as an NHS national management trainee in Newcastle in 1992. He has been a local government corporate director since 2005, with earlier director roles at Telford and Wrekin and Sheffield councils.

He spent nine years as a trustee of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) and co-chairs the County Councils Network's forum for directors of adult social services and directors of public health. In a February 2026 LGC article he argued that social care reform needs the scale of ambition, long-term impact and cross-party support of the Beveridge report. In the same piece he described North Yorkshire's long-term investment in prevention and care and support hubs.

Notable achievements

  1. 01

    Appointed Chief Executive (Head of Paid Service) of City of York Council, taking up the post in April 2026. Source ↗

  2. 02

    As North Yorkshire's corporate director of health and adult services, he is credited in a York council report with doubling the number of extra care housing schemes and securing up to £60m capital investment for new care and support hubs. Source ↗

  3. 03

    Led North Yorkshire's CQC adult social care assessment, published 30 October 2025. Source ↗

  4. 04

    Spent 9 years as a trustee of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and co-chairs the County Councils Network DASS and DPH forum. Source ↗

  5. 05

    Was lead director for North Yorkshire's extra care housing programme, which has seen 28 schemes built offering more than 1,500 apartments. Source ↗

04  The signal · where Richard Webb sits on care home closures & provider failure

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Quoted in the press on care home closures & provider failure.

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  1. Professor Martin Green OBE portraitProfessor Martin Green OBESector leaderChief Executive, Care EnglandLeading
  2. Mario Kreft MBE portraitMario Kreft MBESector leaderOwner, Pendine Park Care Organisation (retired as Chair of Care Forum Wales and the Wales Care Awards in September 2026)Leading
  3. Catriona EglintonRegulatorDeputy Director of Adult Social Care (Kent), Care Quality Commission (CQC)Leading
  4. Jayne ConnerySector leaderdirector of Care Campaign for the Vulnerable
  5. Hazel RobertsRegulatorDeputy Director of Adult Social Care, East of England, Care Quality Commission (CQC)
  6. Richard Webb portraitRichard WebbRegulatorChief Executive (Head of Paid Service), City of York Council
  7. Laura CouseSector leaderCabinet member for adult care and public health, West Northamptonshire council
  8. Sharifa Lakhani portraitSharifa LakhaniSector leaderChief Executive Officer, Holmes Care Group

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05  On the record · press

What Richard Webb has said

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Where Richard Webb has been quoted

  1. Funding shortfalls delay hospital discharges - Selby care bossbbc.com · 22 Jan 2026
  2. 'We need him close to us' - Care home closure causes upset | ITV Newsitv.com · 15 Dec 2025
  3. Closure of Sherburn House in Knaresborough could be 'death sentence' - dadbbc.co.uk · 17 Nov 2025
How we found the articles that name Richard Webb: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 2 topics

Care home closures & provider failure

  • care home closure
  • provider failure
  • residential care closure
  • care home insolvency
  • care home fees
  • care home places
  • care market
  • market sustainability

Also searched with “care home closure” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Care home closures & provider failure

Adult social care & reform

  • adult social care
  • social care reform
  • social care funding
  • Casey Commission
  • care cap
  • Dilnot
  • charging reform
  • Care Act

Also searched with “adult social care” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Adult social care & reform

Verbatim

“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.”
North Yorkshire Council's corporate director for health and adult services · Adult social care & reform · bbc.com · 22 Jan 2026 · Read the article
“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 · itv.com · 15 Dec 2025 · Read the article
“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 · bbc.co.uk · 17 Nov 2025 · Read the article

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06  Sources

References for this biography

  1. Corporate Management Team - City of York Council. Current role as Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service, and the responsibilities of that post
  2. Service Responsibilities - City of York Council. Chief Executive title and council head-office address (West Offices, Station Rise, York, YO1 6GA)
  3. New chief for city council - LGC. Appointment as York chief executive, April 2026 start, career history and achievements
  4. City of York Council - Adult Social Care - Welcome (NY Resourcing). He began as York's Chief Executive in April; over 20 years as a Corporate Director of Health and Adult Services
  5. Appointment of Chief Executive - Annex A (biography). Official biography: North Yorkshire post since 2014, earlier roles, achievements including the CQC inspection
  6. Richard Webb - Speakers - Housing LIN Summit 2024. Education, NHS trainee start in 1992, career path, ADASS trusteeship, CCN forum co-chair, extra care housing lead
  7. Richard Webb: My seven asks of Louise Casey - LGC. His published views on social care reform and 20 years as an adult social care director
  8. York appoints chief executive - The MJ. Appointment as York chief executive and North Yorkshire tenure from 2014

07  Contact & links

Staff page
york.gov.uk/council/corporate-management-team

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Named officials of regulators, arms-length bodies and public agencies such as the CQC, NHS England or a local authority association. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 3 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.