Publications

Yorkshire & Humber Climate Commission – Strengthening Fair and Inclusive Climate Action policy brief

July 2025

Published the Commission, this policy brief outlines how inequalities in health, housing, and opportunity intersect with climate risks. Additionally, it sets out key recommendations to strengthen collaboration between public bodies and communities across our Yorkshire & Humber region to shape policy and funding decisions.

Yorkshire & Humber Climate Commission – Healthy Planet, Healthy People report

July 2025

This report explores how climate action and improving health can go hand in hand to create a fairer, more resilient future for our Yorkshire & Humber region. This report presents key findings gathered from a high-level roundtable in March 2025, and includes recommendations for integrating climate resilience into healthcare, tackling health inequalities, and empowering local systems to lead the way in sustainable transformation.

Yorkshire and Humber Councils Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Yorkshire Universities

March 2025

Yorkshire & Humber Councils and Yorkshire Universities have signed a new and updated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Building on the success of the initial MoU signed in 2021, this agreement sets out shared priorities and activities to drive sustainable growth and innovation across our region.

Yorkshire and Humber Shared Transport Priorities Report

October 2024

Regional Chief Executives worked with  specialist consultants SYSTRA in producing a shared transport priorities report which was presented to the new Government following  the election.

Yorkshire & Humber Climate Commission ‘Our Carbon Story’

July 2024

Our Carbon Story, produced by the Commission, draws on evidence and analysis of emissions in Yorkshire and the Humber by leading academics in our region and will be supported by sectoral briefings. A Carbon Reduction Assessment for Yorkshire and the Humber is used to tell us how we are doing sector by sector and where we stand the most to gain by aligning and focusing our efforts. We also consider the emissions that come from our consumption – an important but often overlooked aspect of the carbon reduction challenge.

Yorkshire Leaders Board Co-Chairs Statement on Adult Social Care Reforms

October 2022

The Co-Chairs of the Yorkshire Leaders Board have written to the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to ask him to take some important steps to support the adult social care sector and ensure the government’s reforms are a success.

Letter from the Co-Chairs to the Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP regarding adult social care reforms

October 2022

A letter from the Co-Chairs of the Yorkshire Leaders Board, to the Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP, outlining their position on adult social care funding and reforms and their view of what is needed to ensure reforms to the sector are a success.

Report on the impact of proposed reforms to adult social care in the Yorkshire and Humber region

October 2022

This report is referenced within the Co-Chairs letter and gives useful evidence outlining the impact of proposed adult social care reforms and funding on the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Yorkshire and Humber Flooding Resilience Forum

July 2022

The Yorkshire Leaders Board, in partnership with Yorkshire Water and The Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, hosted a flooding resilience forum  in York on 14 June 2022. The key aim of the forum was to raise the profile of flood resilience for its wider strategic benefits, as part of the bigger picture of a response to climate change and a wellbeing economy. To this end, Local Authority and public sector leaders across the region were invited to the event to listen to ideas on how we can support the integration of flood resilience into wider strategy and policy.

Statement on destination marketing in Yorkshire and the Humber

Co-Chairs statement on continuing work around destination marketing