The Head Start work placement scheme, run in partnership between IGEN, Leeds City College and Leeds City Council, pairs up ambitious young people aged 18-24 who have been unemployed for more than six months with businesses in the city. The six-week scheme aims to give young people the skills they need to prepare them for…
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The annual Leeds Children’s Mayor election enables Children and Young People to vote for the year 6 pupil they feel should become a leading voice for young people in our city. This year, 31 schools submitted entrants. These were shortlisted to a final ten by a panel of youth councillors, Members of Youth Parliament and…
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Nominations for the child friendly Leeds awards have now closed after a whopping 549 nominations were made! We’d just like to say a big thank you to everybody who nominated the people, places and organisations making Leeds a great city to grow up in. The child friendly Leeds awards ceremony, which will be held on 29 January…
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It’s only a few days until the nominations close for the child friendly Leeds awards. So far we’ve received over 400 fantastic nominations for people, places and organisation helping to make Leeds a great city to grow up in. We’re hoping to receive even more nominations before 31 October! But what does winning an award…
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The newly launched Youth Information Hub is a one-stop shop for young people across Leeds to get the information they need – to answer questions they have about mental and sexual health, find out what’s on in Leeds, and get help and support with lots of different things. The site has been designed through discussion…
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Libraries aren’t just great places to read your favourite books, they’re also community spaces that host an array of child friendly activities. With autumn half-term coming up, we decided to find out more about what’s going on at Leeds libraries. Today we talk to Owen Clements, the Children’s Information Librarian at Leeds Central Library, about…
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The child friendly Leeds awards are an opportunity to reflect on the people, places and organisations making Leeds a fantastic city to grow-up in, as well as for people from the city to share their stories about the child friendly activities they organise and participate in. Today we hear from Kay Brown, an organiser of…
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A child friendly Leeds means children and young people can express their views, feel heard and are actively involved in decisions affecting their lives. The Temple Newsam Learning Partnership Trust School Council is one of the groups giving children and young people voice and influence in the city. In today’s blog we take a look…
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Nominations for the child friendly Leeds awards 2015 are now open! So if you know a great place in Leeds for children and young people, or someone who’s making a big difference to children’s lives, then pop over to our nominations page and make a nomination! This year the awards will once again be organised…
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Today we talk to Ben Whitehead, a manager within Leeds City Council’s fostering team, about Leeds City Council’s supported lodgings initiative. The initiative provides lodgings for young people aged 16-21, and we wanted to know how this new initiative works and who can get involved and become a supported lodgings provider… Supported lodgings are a…
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A child friendly Leeds means making Leeds a place where children and young people, and their families are able to get out and get active! After the excitement of the Grand Départ, more people in Leeds are keen to get out on their bicycles and Sky Rides are a great way for families to do…
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The new Leeds Local Offer website launches today (1 September 2014). You can use the website to find out what services and support you can expect to access locally. You can also use it to share your views of services in Leeds and how they should develop… In our last entry we talked about how the Children and…
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