CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Creating the child-friendly city

Leeds has been on a long journey to achieve its ‘child-friendly city’ status. Nigel Richardson explains how young people have been put at the heart of the council’s strategy

In Leeds, we have a bold ambition – to be the best city in the UK, and an integral part of this is to be the best city for children and young people to grow up in.

As a council there is a political commitment cross-party that has embraced the moral imperative to invest in our children and young people, recognising this as a driver for the medium and longer-term economic regeneration of the city.

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