Leeds City Council’s ‘Independent Visitor’ scheme offers young people in care an older role model. Volunteers offer few hours of their time each month, taking part in activities such as football, go-karting, or a trip to the cinema. They get to see a young person develop, grow in confidence and have fun, away from the…
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Children in care from across Leeds have been treated like stars for the night at a prom style awards ceremony. The STARS awards for Looked After Children have been organised by Leeds City Council to celebrate and recognise the many achievements of children and young people in care. In order to make sure all children…
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This week Leeds City Council’s Independent Visitor scheme launches a new campaign, asking you #WhoWasYourRoleModel when you were growing-up. Leeds Rhinos players Jamie-Jones Buchanan and Zak Hardaker have been getting involved in some fantastic videos, and you can too on Twitter by letting us know who your role models are and using the hashtag. In…
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As part of our ambition to make Leeds a child friendly city we work with a range of businesses and organisations to provide support to our foster carers. The organisations often provide our foster carers with free or discounted tickets to events, so they can get out and about with the young people they look…
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Newlands Primary Smart Swappers join Cllr Mulherin, Emma Strachan, Janet Munro and Rhinos Ash Handley and Robbie Ward As Health Eating Week got under way, children at Morley Newlands primary school were delighted when they won a chance to meet Rhinos players Ash Handley and Robbie Ward after a top performance in the Smart Swaps…
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Tropical World is one of Leeds and Yorkshire’s most visited attractions for children and young people. It was one of the places nominated by young people as a ‘best place’ in the city as part of our child friendly Leeds awards and recently has been undergoing some big changes! In today’s child friendly Leeds blog,…
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The winners of the child friendly Leeds awards 2015 were finally revealed at a glittering ceremony held at Leeds City Varieties. The ceremony was the culmination of the work of Thumbs Up Productions, a group of nine young people who have been working hard since September to plan every aspect of the ceremony and take…
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The winners of the second annual child friendly Leeds awards were announced in a glittering ceremony on 29 January at Leeds City Varieties. There were an astounding 547 nominations received for champion children, child friendly places, people who go the extra mile and great organisations, with the winners announced at the special event. Thumbs Up…
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Hundreds of hard-working volunteers, employees and partner organisations across Leeds were given a special ‘thank you’ by staff at Leeds City Council for their work to make Leeds the best city for children and young people. The council’s children’s services directorate held its annual awards ceremony to honour those who have made a special contribution…
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