On Monday 2nd April, at the beautiful Leeds town hall, the Leeds Young Filmmakers Golden Owl Awards were held for aspiring film makers around the city. The awards started at around 7pm and finished at about 9.30pm. Even though the awards started in the evening, I was at the town hall with other reporters at…
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Beth got involved as a child friendly Leeds young advisor, and worked on the child friendly Leeds awards. “I never thought that when a couple of my friends and I went to the Leeds Art Gallery that I would ever have the opportunity to put on a show like this. I just thought I would be…
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In just a few hours the fabulous Golden Owl awards will begin!! In preparation for this event Child Friendly Leeds have been taking pictures and posting on social networking sites before the event starts. After taking a good look at the grand town hall it is starting to look brilliant. By the time the event…
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Today we hear from Heather, who manages the adoption and fostering panel service at Leeds City Council. The panels are the independent groups of people who prospective adoptive parents and foster carers meet near the end of their assessment process. We started by asking her how she got into managing the service. “I’ve worked for…
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We want Leeds to be the best city to grow up in, and to make this happen, the city is bringing together people, places and organisations to make Leeds a child friendly city. Could you play your part? Are you or your organisation already doing great work for children and young people? We’d love to…
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Start small, but start something – Think Big Imagine a place where we teach our children to be employers, not employed; to be producers, not consumers; to forge their own path, make their own luck; to be creative, to be active, to try stuff, to fail, to share, to learn…. To start small, but just…
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Ambassador Amy Doram amy.doram@02.com Our latest project Helping to inspire young people in Leeds and support them to develop their skills through the Think Big project and working with schools through Leeds Education Business Partnership (Leeds EBP). Through the project Think Big, O2 supports young people to develop their ideas and skills and inspire them to…
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“Adopting a child is such an exciting and nerve racking experience in equal measure, but adopting siblings is a really rewarding thing to do because the children have such a special connection – they are forever linked by their shared life story. “We have 3 fantastic, amazing adopted children – siblings, aged 7, 6 and…
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Today is our final part from our gay couple, writing about their experience of becoming foster carers for Leeds City Council. We hope you’ve enjoyed it. “We had spent the last few months being assessed to become foster carers. We felt relieved and satisfied when it was all completed and submitted to the relevant people.…
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“My partner and I had just started the assessment process to become foster carers. Very early in the process we were told we had to attend a course called Skills to Foster. This was a three day course and is run fairly frequently often over weekends, to minimise the time taken off work. Having sorted…
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Here is part three of our five part series from our gay foster carers, talking about their experience of becoming carers with Leeds City Council. “My partner and I came away from the open evening more determined to become foster carers than when we arrived. Later the same week, having left our details, we were contacted by the recruitment…
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“We had thought long and hard about going into fostering. We hadn’t spoken to anyone about it – family, friends or professionals. We had to be sure ourselves before we discussed it with the outside world. Then we heard about an open evening specifically for gay & lesbian people being run by Leeds City Council…
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