What official statements, if any, did Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire publish about Pathways and its removal?

1. What the available reporting actually says about “Pathways”

A single outlet in the supplied materials links Pathways to local councils, reporting that East Yorkshire councils developed Pathways “with Government support” amid local concerns about immigration and tensions over migrant hotels, and describing Pathways as an interactive programme aimed at school pupils aged 11–18 ^[1]. That item is a secondary report: it attributes development to councils but does not reproduce a named press release, quote a council spokesperson, or point to an official council web page about Pathways in the documents provided ^[1].

2. What Hull City Council and East Riding publish on their websites in these sources

The official home pages for Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council are included among the supplied sources and show broad coverage of services, strategies and devolution material, but the excerpts made available here do not contain any statement about Pathways or its removal ^{[2] [3]}. Both council sites in the dataset prominently set out devolution material and local plans (including a Rights of Way plan and devolution pages), but none of those snippets show an explicit Pathways press release or removal notice in the supplied excerpts ^{[7] [4]}.

3. How the regional devolution context appears in the records provided

Much of the supplied material focuses on the councils’ joint devolution work and the creation of the Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority (HEYCA), including official documents and government pages describing a devolution deal and the new mayoral structure — matters the councils have publicly announced and documented ^{[5] [6] [4]}. These sources confirm active, public communications on strategic regional issues, underscoring that if councils had issued formal statements on Pathways they would plausibly appear alongside other public-facing material — yet the excerpts here do not include such a statement ^{[5] [4]}.

4. What is missing in the supplied reporting and why that matters

The available set of documents includes council homepages, devolution summaries and news articles about local infrastructure and the combined authority, but includes only one secondary news item that references Pathways and attributes it to councils without linking an identifiable council press release or minutes ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Because the dataset lacks a direct council press release, statements to a council press office, or committee minutes referencing Pathways’ commissioning or decommissioning, it is not possible from these materials to produce a verbatim official council statement about Pathways’ removal or to detail the councils’ formal rationale or timescale ^{[2] [3] [1]}.

5. Alternative viewpoints, possible agendas and next reporting steps

The lone secondary report tying councils to Pathways appears in a partisan news context that has previously highlighted alleged controversies in Prevent-style education materials; that outlet’s framing may reflect an editorial agenda to spotlight government-funded programmes linked to community tensions ^[1]. Conversely, the councils’ public-facing devolution and service pages in the supplied sources emphasise collaborative governance and investment, suggesting institutional priorities lie with strategic regional messaging rather than the contested depiction of a specific educational intervention ^{[4] [6]}. To resolve the gap identified here, the next reporting steps would be to request or search for (a) specific council press releases, (b) cabinet or scrutiny committee minutes mentioning Pathways, and (c) direct Freedom of Information disclosures from Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council — documents not present in the dataset supplied.