Our 12 Wishes for a Child Friendly City

What are the Child Friendly Leeds wishes ?

The wishes were originally developed in 2012, when Her Majesty The Queen launched Child Friendly Leeds. As we celebrate 10 years of Child Friendly Leeds,  we wanted to update them to ensure they reflect the issues that are most important to children and young people today.

The wishes are based on what children and young people think would make Leeds an even better city for them to grow up in. We listened to the views and priorities of over 80,000 children and young people in the city by reviewing key findings from different consultations, surveys and ballots from the last three years.

We worked in partnership with 68 children and young people from different schools and youth groups to ensure the wording was simple and could be understood by different ages.

Decision makers, staff, ambassadors and partners will use the wishes to influence their work priorities and plans for children, young people and families.

The new wishes were developed alongside children and young people from the city and were showcased at a two-week exhibition at Leeds City Museum in July 2022. Following the anniversary celebrations, we were honoured to have HM King Charles visit Leeds and understand more about our work and the refreshed wishes.

Children and young people visiting the exhibition will be asked to draw and animate what these wishes mean to them and the images they produce will be used in our future communications of the wishes.

UPDATE:

Starting with Wish 1 in October 2023, every month we are adding a new page to our blog site, one for each wish. Click the Wish graphics below to be taken to its specific page…