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Healthy Holidays Leeds

3rd April 2026

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Healthy Holidays Leeds offers food and fun for children during school breaks

Healthy Holidays Leeds is helping children and young people stay active, well-fed and entertained during the school holidays with a wide range of free clubs and activities across the city. The programme, which is Leeds’ local name for the Department for Education’s Holiday Activity and Food Programme, runs during the Easter, summer and Christmas…

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Free and low-cost things to do over the Easter school holidays.

27th March 2026

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Free and low-cost family activities to enjoy in Leeds this Easter holidays

Families across Leeds looking to make the most of the Easter school holidays do not need to break the bank to enjoy days out together. With two weeks to fill, many parents and carers will be searching for affordable ways to keep children busy, active and entertained. Fortunately, Leeds has no shortage of free…

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Foster4Leeds

21st January 2021

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Urgent appeal for foster carers in Leeds

Due to the ongoing impact of Covid-19, Foster4Leeds, Leeds City Council’s fostering service, are urgently seeking to increase the number of foster carers available to care for children and young people throughout the city. The council works extremely hard to continually recruit local foster carers. The number of families fostering with Foster4Leeds has grown…

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Leeds Childrens Services

18th December 2020

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Leeds Children’s Services awarded £390,000 as a national ‘Partner in Practice’

Leeds City Council’s Children’s Services have won a £390,000 funding bid from the Department for Education, recognising good practice through the pandemic. The latest funding, to be used by the end of March 2021, will allow Leeds to build on areas of success for its Children’s Services in recent months, in addressing food poverty,…

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Baby Week Leeds

13th November 2020

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Baby Week Leeds 2020 spreads ‘Stay Safe, Stay Connected’ message as it celebrates 5 years

Baby Week Leeds returns with a week-long programme of digital events. This year’s theme reflects the growing importance of connecting with parents, services and businesses across Leeds during this time. Events will focus on mitigating the impact of lockdown measures on babies, children and their families through the ‘Stay Safe, Stay Connected’ ethos. The…

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Mockingbird diagram

30th October 2020

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Foster families in Leeds are now benefitting from an award-winning fostering programme

Leeds City Council is part of the Mockingbird programme, run by The Fostering Network, which has seen off other outstanding projects to win the Big Impact Award at this year’s Third Sector Awards. Mockingbird uses a pioneering model which sees a constellation of fostering households set up in a similar structure to that of…

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Foster4Leeds

30th October 2020

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Fostering families in Leeds set to benefit from council’s exciting partnership with skating rink

Leeds City Council has signed a partnership with the new Planet Ice skating rink on Elland road, next to the park and ride. The new partnership will offer all Leeds City Council foster families a heavily discounted entrance fee and free use of ice skates. They will also have access to a limited number…

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Child Friendly Leeds

3rd July 2020

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Council teams up with local charities to help kids have fun and keep active during lockdown

Child Friendly Leeds support the Mini-Play Box Scheme to help provide FREE resources for even more vulnerable families. When Child Friendly Leeds heard about the fantastic work being done for children and families through the Mini-Play Box Scheme in Seacroft (Boggart Hill), they were keen to support the initiative and help provide FREE resources…

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Foster4Leeds

1st May 2020

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Become a foster carer in Leeds and change a child’s life forever

Leeds City Council is urgently seeking exceptional people to help change a child’s life forever, by becoming a foster carer. By fostering for Leeds City Council, new carers would join one of the UK’s largest and most well-established fostering networks, and be offered tailored support from social workers and specialist staff to guide them…

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Child Friendly Leeds Awards

15th February 2020

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Child Friendly Leeds champions announced

The winners of the seventh Child Friendly Leeds awards have been announced in a star-studded ‘Space’ themed ceremony at Leeds City Varieties. The awards, which are organised, planned and delivered by young people, celebrate some of the people, places and organisations working to make Leeds a child friendly city. A significant number of nominations…

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Child Friendly Leeds

10th January 2020

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Shortlist revealed for the 2020 Child Friendly Leeds Awards

The names of the people, places and organisations shortlisted for the seventh Child Friendly Leeds awards have been revealed. The annual awards ceremony will take place on 6 February this year, and will celebrate all the hard work that is happening across the city to make Leeds the best place for children and young…

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One Adoption West Yorkshire

5th January 2020

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Adoptive families needed to make 2020 the best year of a child’s life

As the number of children in need of loving, nurturing homes continues to grow, the regional adoption agency for West Yorkshire “One Adoption” is urging people to consider adoption as a route to the building or extending their family this New Year. Current statistics show that the number of children in Yorkshire who have…

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Child Friendly Leeds Awards

21st December 2019

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Leeds business stars align to support Child Friendly Leeds Awards 2020

Preparations are starting for the 7th annual Child Friendly Leeds Awards and businesses across the city are providing their support for the celebration. The prestigious ceremony takes place in February 2020 and recognises the amazing people, places and organisations that help make Leeds the best city for children and young people to grow up…

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Child Friendly Leeds

23rd November 2019

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2 mins read

Celebrating 30 years of the United Nations convention on children’s rights

Child Friendly Leeds and Kerr Mackie Primary School joined forces this week to mark 30 years since the launch of the United Nations convention on children’s rights. The convention came into being in 1989, with governments worldwide committed to ensuring all children were given the same rights including meeting their basic needs and helping…

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Foster4Leeds

11th November 2019

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Emmerdale star makes guest appearance at Leeds fostering conference

Leeds City Council’s fostering team, Foster4Leeds welcomed a famous face at a children with disabilities celebration and development conference at Elland Road this week. National TV awards winner, James Moore – who plays Ryan Stocks in Emmerdale, captivated the audience with stories of his journey to stardom in his inspirational speech. The actor has…

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Leeds Baby Week

4th November 2019

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Baby Week 2019: 100 reasons why Leeds is a child-friendly city

Baby Week returns to Leeds this week with over 100 special events and the launch of a new midwife-led online community for expectant mums. From baby raves to dads’ breakfast clubs and Opera North coaching for tiny singers, Baby Week Leeds showcases the amazing range of local services, groups and activities on offer for…

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Child Friendly Leeds Awards

17th October 2019

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Get your votes in now for the Child Friendly Leeds Awards 2020

There are less than two weeks left to submit your nominations for the 7th annual Child Friendly Leeds Awards. Child Friendly Leeds is on the lookout for truly inspiring stories about the amazing people, places and organisations that help make Leeds the best city for children and young people to grow up in. The…

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Lord Mayor and Children's Lord Mayor

5th October 2019

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2 mins read

New Children’s Mayor of Leeds announced after record number of votes

On Tuesday 1 October, Wania Ahmad from Harehills Primary School was announced as the new Leeds Children’s Mayor by Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Eileen Taylor, at a special event at Leeds Civic Hall. Wania spent much of the summer holidays campaigning in an election that saw nearly 9,000 local children and young people…

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Child Friendly Leeds Live

14th June 2019

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2 mins read

CBeebies stars head to Millennium Square for the second Child Friendly Leeds Live event

Tickets are now on sale for Child Friendly Leeds Live 2019, which will be headlined by CBeebies’ Mr. Bloom & His Band with popular former CBeebies presenter Alex Winters returning as host. Child Friendly Leeds is proud to bring CFL Live to Millennium Square for a second year on Wednesday 7 August, which is…

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Child Friendly Leeds

20th January 2019

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Shortlist revealed for the 2019 Child Friendly Leeds Awards

The names of the people, places and organisations shortlisted for the 6th Child Friendly Leeds awards have been revealed. The annual awards ceremony will take place in February this year, and will celebrate all the work that is happening across the city to make Leeds the best place for children and young people to…

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Child Friendly Leeds

19th December 2018

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4 mins read

Children’s social care services in Leeds rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted

Services provided for children and families by the council in Leeds have been rated as ‘outstanding’ by government inspectors, Ofsted. The tremendous achievement comes after a rigorous and thorough inspection into the services the council provides for children in need of help and protection, children in care and care leavers. Ofsted inspectors rated Leeds…

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Child Friendly Leeds Awards 2019

9th October 2018

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7 mins read

Young people take the lead in planning prestigious citywide awards

Children and young people take centre stage when it comes to putting on the city’s prestigious annual awards ceremony which celebrates the people, places and organisations who make Leeds truly Child-Friendly. The Child-Friendly Leeds Awards are the only city awards which are entirely planned, delivered and hosted by young people. This year will be…

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