Podcasts about leeds city council

WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO LIVE SOMEWHERE SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE? This week, Emily talks to Jane Stageman, Chair of Pride of Place Living. Pride of Place is a charity which was set-up in response to a report done by Leeds City Council which recognised that the LGBTQ+ community in Leeds needed a community centre, and multi-generational housing. Jane shares more about why these spaces are needed, and the vision for the spaces and for our local LGBTQ+ community. If you're interested in LGBTQ+ history and/ or activism, why not join our next Sketch Walk, "Sketching Queer History"? Find out more and sign-up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/leeds-sanctuary Additional links: Pride of Place Living: www.prideofplaceleeds.org.uk/home/housing Pride Place: www.prideplace.org.uk We hope you enjoy this podcast; if you do, please share it and tag us on social media at @leedssanctuary . With thanks to Matt at MC Online Events for editing this podcast. Music by Stockaudios from Pixabay.

The Ordinary Elite is a Scottish podcast brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence lawyer and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In our 10th episode of Season 3, we discuss current political issues in the UK and beyond with Jon Trickett MP. Jon was the only Labour MP to vote against the cut to the Winter Fuel Payment. Jon is a former Leader of Leeds City Council and a former member of Labour's Shadow Cabinet.

Rob talks about the recent proposal by Leeds City Council to implement the highest licensing fee for landlords in the UK, set at £1,225, which represents a 45% increase from the current rate, raising concerns about selective licensing schemes, arguing that these initiatives are primarily cash-generating measures rather than genuine efforts to improve housing standards.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Leeds City Council has proposed raising the licensing fee for landlords to £1,225, marking a 45% increase from the current fee, which is the highest in the UK. The increase in licensing fees is likely to be passed on to tenants through higher rents, potentially leading to an inflationary spiral that negatively affects those the licensing is intended to protect. Councils often justify selective licensing by claiming it aims to improve housing standards and protect tenants, but there are doubts about its effectiveness, especially in areas with poor housing conditions. The implementation of selective licensing schemes incurs additional administrative costs for councils, which may further complicate the financial burden on landlords and, consequently, tenants. BEST MOMENTS "Leeds City Council has proposed charging the highest fee in the country... £1,225 to have a license to operate a buy-to-let property." "The very thing that selective licensing schemes are trying to protect... the tenants are going to become the most worse off out of this because the fees will get passed on to them." "It's not necessarily the implementation of the licensing. It's almost the lying about it and saying, well, this is what it's for, when really it's got nothing to do with that." "The revenue from the scheme is to allow the local authorities to increase enforcement and improve standards... raising doubts about the direct impact of licensing on housing standards." VALUABLE RESOURCES  GET YOUR PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT FINANCE HERE: https://propertyfundingplatform.com/WharfFinancial#!/borrowerinitialregistration SOCIAL MEDIA/CONTACT US https://linktr.ee/thepropertynomadspodcast BOOKS  Property FAQs = https://amzn.to/3MWfcL4   Buy To Let: How To Get Started = https://amzn.to/3genjle   101 Top Property Tips = https://amzn.to/2NxuAQL  uk property, Investment, Property, Rent, Buy to let, Investing for beginners, Money, Tax, Renting, Landlords, strategies, invest, housing, properties, portfolio, estate agents, lettings, letting, business: https://patreon.com/tpnpodcast

Tom Riordan CBE is the Chief Executive at Leeds City Council, one of the biggest and most important councils in the UK. In this episode Tim does a deep dive into Leeds City Council's various initiatives into urban planning in the post-pandemic era. They are also joined by Mark Middleton, Grimshaw's Group Managing Partner, who discusses his experience in transport projects in the Leeds area such as HS2. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Saturday 6th January 2024 we attended an important community demonstration down our road. Crossgates Library is over 75 years old and for generations has been at the heart of this community in East Leeds. Unfortunately, due to 14 years of austerity and councils being desperate to balance the books, Leeds City Council have decided to sell the Library at auction. People from 8 to 89 years old came together to say, 'Give us, the people of Crossgates, more time to try find an alternative!' listen to this clip to hear just a few of their voices. Please lend your support to this campaign by doing the following:Sign the petition: https://chng.it/NtHw5bXNMN Email local Cllrs and MPAttend the next demonstration this Saturday (more details on the Save Our Library Building FB Page)

In 2020, most of the world stopped. People were forced to stay at home and many people were furloughed.This episode's guest, however, was thrown into the forefront of the government's response to to the Covid-19 pandemic, leading the tracing system and working alongside local and central government bodies.Host Dan Benn is joined by Tom Riordan, Chief Executive of Leeds City Council, to discuss loyalty, the pressures of Covid-19, and the importance of transport to a city like Leeds.

Nazeya Hussain speaks with Tom Riordan in Leeds, one of the fastest-growing cities in the UK. Tom was born and bred in Yorkshire and his career spans national, regional and local government. He started his journey in the Civil Service fast track before returning to Leeds to set up the Regional development agency. In 2010 he joined Leeds City Council and local government. Under Tom's leadership, Leeds City Council won MJ Council of the year in 2016 and Digital Council of the year award in 2019. Solace website: https://solace.org.uk Dedicated podcast site: http://solace.org.uk/local-government-stories Socials: @Solace_UK #LocalGovernmentStories

Economic growth in the UK is stagnating. Can a radical reshaping of private and public sector roles in core cities help unlock productivity and prosperity in Britain? The latest in our Spotlight on Policy series welcomes the Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, the CEO of Leeds City Council, Tom Riordan, and PwC's Public Sector expert Katie Johnston, to explore the role cities can play in boosting Britain's productivity. This episode is sponsored by PwC.Download the Good Growth for Cities report here: https://www.pwc.co.uk/industries/government-public-sector/good-growth.htmlView the PWC productivity tracker: https://www.pwc.co.uk/industries/insights/productivity-tracker/regional.htmlFind out more about the UK Urban Futures Commission: https://www.thersa.org/projects/uk-urban-futures-commission Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Blackpool hotel where a 10-year-old boy was electrocuted stays closed this week as a probe into the accident gets underway… …electricians strike in a dispute that could shut down the nation's nuclear stations…And figures reveal that the UK is an astonishing 12 YEARS behind its EV charger target…Welcome to Electrical News Weekly in association with The Electric Heating Company, whether you're listening in the van, on-site, or down at the wholesale counter.============================================Time Stamps ⏱00:00 Electrical Industry News - Monday 18th September00:39 A Blackpool Hotel remains closed after a 10-year-old boy is electrocuted01:31 Electricians strike could shut down the UK's nuclear stations02:09 Come see the eFIXX team at Screwfix Live on the Luceco Group stand03:19 The UK is 12 years behind its EV charger installation target04:09 UK's largest EV charging hub is now open04:45 Leeds City Council opens the UK's first solar-powered park and ride site05:16 Ledvance announce professional LED lamp range under its own name05:49 Martindale unveil four new proving units06:14 Scolmore adds built-in RCD to Mode range06:42 Widow of former electrician asks for information following husband's death from asbestos07:35 Thanks to our premium partners============================================Show notes

In this month's episode we cover the essentials of SDG's 9 and 12 by looking back at highlights from episodes 3 and 4 of The 17.In Episode 3, the expert guest was Eve Roodhouse, Chief Officer for Economy and Culture for Leeds City Council.In Episode 4, Kate was joined by leading voices Andrew Ostcliffe (Head of E-commerce & Retail Innovation for Oxfam) and Josie Warden (who explores regeneration for business consultancy Volans).What needs to be done at global, national, local and individual levels to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals? The 17 is a podcast themed around the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. A new episode is published on the 17th of each month, and explores a different one of the 17 goals in detail. The UN SDGs represent an all-encompassing plan to protect the future of our planet, it is our responsibility to know what they are, understand them, and make sure that we are doing our bit to help.We are a new podcast and keen to grow. Please subscribe on your usual podcast platform, leave reviews and spread the word about the podcast. Thank you.The 17 is produced by Bwlb - www.bwlb.co.uk

Young broadcasters, poets and musicians created a radio show in 4 days! Inspired by a trip to the Leeds Grand Theatre, featuring Queen Victoria, William Shakespeare and ghosts.Queen Victoria and her daughter Princess Alice visits Leeds! They didn't like how it was all dried out, missing fancy buildings and recreational facilities. The city was way too much behind its time. Princess Alice said "It's missing fancy building, no ornate parks and no fancy balls! Nothing like London." Tune in to listen about The Lavender Lady, stage packers, the programming team, Status and class, the Purple Props Lady and more ghosts and stories.Made possible by Healthy Holidays funding from Leeds City Council

Leeds City Council's chief executive Tom Riordan speaks to Andrew Teacher about his 13-year tenure working to harness investment, unlocking thousands of new homes, and reversing regional brain drain. Railing against the “debating society” culture of national politics and the failure to invest in regional transport, he hails Leeds' success attracting major new occupiers and its future as the country's health-tech capital. Just don't mention the football.

Laura Bracey from Research in Practice speaks to Matt Tattersley, Project Manager for the Caring Dads programme within Leeds City Council. Matt reflects on the journey that Leeds City Council has been on to improve its support to fathers and his hopes for the future. He shares examples of positive practice with fathers, and advice for social workers looking to work more effectively. This podcast is the first in a series of three podcasts about the journey that Leeds City Council is taking to develop work with men. View the accompanying reflective questions: www.researchinpractice.org.uk/children/content-pages/podcasts/working-with-men-in-leeds-caring-dads/

Laura Bracey from Research in Practice speaks to Matthew Tattersley, Project Manager for the Caring Dads programme within Leeds City Council. Matthew reflects on the journey that Leeds City Council has been on to improve its support to fathers and his hopes for the future. He shares examples of positive practice with fathers, and advice for social workers looking to work more effectively. This podcast is the first in a series of three podcasts about the journey that Leeds City Council is taking to develop work with men. View the accompanying reflective questions: www.researchinpractice.org.uk/children/c…rom-leeds/

In this episode we discussed our pilot evaluation of Family Valued. This study was part of the Strengthening Families Protecting Children (SFPC) programme and commissioned by the Department for Education. SFPC aims to support local authorities to introduce one of three models of practice into their own area. These models hope to enable more children to stay in safe and stable family environments, so that fewer children need to be taken into care. Family Valued was originally developed by Leeds City Council as part of the Children's Social Care Innovation Programme and we ran our pilot in Darlington. The initiative is a whole system approach to children's safeguarding that involves training in Restorative Practice and establishing or expanding Family Group Conference (FGC) services in the local authority. It also entails carrying out a review of all existing local systems and then commissioning new restorative services to address any gaps in provision. Contributors: Presenter Nimal Jude, our Head of Practice Development, talks to the report's research lead Hannah Collyer. Get in touch: If you'd like to find out more about the latest research into children's social care, sign up for our newsletter or have an idea for a future podcast., please get in touch: info@whatworks-csc.org.uk www.whatworks-csc.org.uk Twitter: @whatworksCSC You can also read the pilot report in full here: Family Valued

In this episode of Electrical News WeeklyA staggering 7,000 electrical safety faults are discovered on rental properties in England...A national newspaper alleges wasteful practices on the railways, in which two or more vans turn up to simply change a socket...and jailed: the drug dealers who disguised themselves as electricians to ply their evil trade...=========================================00:00 Electrical News Weekly 27th June 202200:43 Social housing electrical safety faults01:27 Out-of-date electrical practices within the rail industry02:06 Drug dealers pretending to be electricians02:37 Band of builders help former bricklayer03:01 Social shout out MMM Electrical03:28 Humber renewables success for Jordan Brompton03:55 Leeds City Council energy award04:26 High energy prices slash paybacks on Solar PV04:55 UK Power Networks cables upgrade05:46 Massive EV charging hub fire06:14 Fuel genie App06:41 Marshall Tufflex expands partnership with Basor07:19 New industrial luminaires from Ledvance07:54 New accessories from Unicrimp08:27 Sustainable cable strippers from Weicon08:53 New Trendi switch colours from Electrical Direct09:24 Electricians beat gym workouts10:00 Coming up on eFIXX this week.10:29 eFIXX at Installer Show========================================Show note links========================================Fuel Genie - App Basor from Marshall TufflexWeicon sustainable cable strippers from Industry Super StoreNew industrial luminaires from LedvanceInstaller Show innovations review=========================================eFIXX POWERED BY YOU: GET INVOLVEDWe create fresh electrical content every day. What we produce is influenced by the thousands of subscribers who send us messages, leave comments and share our videos. We are always looking for new ways to collaborate and celebrate best practices. If you would like to get involved with the channel or need to get in touch because you've won something during this live stream, contact us via the website  

I had such an interesting conversation with Rob Wilson, founder of Angels of Freedom."Bringing a caring LGBT+ scene to a compassionate cityThe Angels of Freedom is a community based initiative organised by volunteers and supported by Leeds City Council, British Transport Police and West Yorkshire Police.Our aim is to provide visible support for the LGBT+ community based in the Freedom Quarter area of the city every Friday evening. Our volunteers provide conversations on support & social groups, activities and events in Leeds, along with just being a friendly approachable face on the bar scene for anyone wanting a chat."The featured track on this episode is aptly named and is about the city, "Leeds" by Moses Rubin. Moses has produced an EP entirely devoted to Leeds.https://www.angelsoffreedom.org.uk/https://www.instagram.com/leedscc_lgbt/https://www.facebook.com/LeedsLGBTAngelshttps://twitter.com/LeedsLGBTAngelshttp://www.mosesrubinmusic.com/http://www.mosesrubin.bandcamp.com/https://mosesrubin.bandcamp.com/track/leedshttps://www.facebook.com/mosesrubinmusichttps://www.instagram.com/moses_rubin/https://twitter.com/moses_rubin

Lucy Ndlovu is the Communications Director at Leeds African Communities Trust. We had a great chat about how and why the trust was formed, how they are looking for more communities to join them, their food hub at Little London Community Centre and much more:"The Leeds African Communities Trust promotes the wellbeing of people of African descent throughout Leeds, by advancing education, relieving poverty and improving their welfare, through community based activities in partnership with its associated African community groups, Leeds City Council and other public and private sector bodies."(Their website is in development and I will add a link here when it's live)https://twitter.com/leedsafricanhttp://caringtogether.org.uk/leeds-african-communities-trust-hub/https://hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk/season/cinema-africahttps://www.facebook.com/leedssfricanshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWQy6ot8LP6io-qTtkNxMbALucy wished to feature an Afrobeats track and I follow the wonderful TC & The Family Groove on Bandcamp who kindly agreed to let me feature their fantastic track, "Let's Start""Inspired by the afrobeat pioneered by Tony Allen and Fela Kuti, Let's Start is about moving forward as a stronger, unified society for all those who seek justice and peace; standing in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement."You can see the band live for their album launch at Brudenell Social Club on 1st June, 2022:http://www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk/whats-on/tc-groove-family-album-launch/https://tcandthegroovefamily.bandcamp.com/https://open.spotify.com/artist/47DpSgD00hWJA970gp7nlZhttps://twitter.com/groovetc?lang=enhttps://www.facebook.com/TCandtheGrooveFamily/https://www.instagram.com/tcandthegroovefamily/?hl=enhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lp4zhdabAyrduIwiebdBghttps://tcandthegroovefamily.bandcamp.com/album/lets-start

Our Special Guest this week is Helen Barnard, Associate Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Help Ukraine Emergency Appeal Decisions of the Week: R (oao TV Harrison CIC) v Leeds City Council et anor [2022] EWHC 130 (Admin) a decision of the High Court dated 25th January 2022 allowing a second challenge to the refusal of the City Council to include land in the list of assets of community value under s 87 of the Localism Act 2011. R (oao S Finch) v Surrey County Council et al [2022] EWCA Civ 187 a decision of the Court of Appeal dated 17th February 2022 dismissing an appeal against the decision of Holgate J who had dismissed a challenge to the decision of the mineral planning authority not to require EIA for crude oil extraction to include an assessment of the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from the use of refined products of that oil. Decision of an inspector dated 18th February 2022 allowing an appeal by JBM Solar Projects 6 Ltd against the refusal of Newark & Sherwood District Council to grant permission for a solar farm & battery stations, raising landscape & heritage issues. Decision of an inspector dated 23rdth February 2022 allowing an appeal against the refusal of Thanet District Council to grant Gladman's outline permission for up to 450 homes & associated infrastructure on a Strategic Housing Allocation in the local plan at Margate where there was no 5Yr HLS available and a failure to meet HDT. Heritage & impact on Thames Coast & Sandwich Bay SPA & Ramsar site considered.

In 2018 we partnered with Leeds City Council, Public Health to establish and run the Men's Suicide Prevention Programme, supporting projects which aims to provide funding for voluntary and community organisations to support social activities for men and to provide outreach work with targeted communities to reduce social isolation. ​Since 2018 this ground-breaking programme has enabled preventative work with men who are at the highest risk of suicide in Leeds, five times higher than women, and higher than the national average.​  The fund has distributed over £240k in grants, supporting 17 projects and 1,378 men across Leeds. These projects ranged from men's walking groups, a men's mental fitness group programme to improve resilience, coping strategies and wellbeing to live theatre performances aiming to raise awareness of men's mental health issues.In this episode, we'll be talking about the Men's Suicide Prevention Programme we've managed over the past 3 years.  The main aim of which, is to provide funding for voluntary and community organisations to support social activities for men and to provide outreach work with target communities to reduce social isolation.In this episode we're joined by Duncan Millard from Humans Being and Cheryl Harrington from Brackenwood Community Association,  two Community Organistions who have been supported through the programme and are working to increase social connections particularly for men who are at greater risk of becoming social isolated. A full transcript of this podcast can be found here.If you are going through a tough time or you know someone that may need help, you don't have to face it alone. You can contact Mindwell on 0800 1830558 or on their website here. Alternatively you can get in contact with the Samaritans on 116 123 or drop them any email at jo@samaritans.org.Leeds Community Foundation distributes vital grants and gives trusted advice to voluntary groups and charities across Leeds to influence positive change.  Driven by creating meaningful social impact for thousands of local people every year.  During 2020/2021 we have distributed £5.8m across Leeds and Bradford.Learn more about Leeds Community Foundation and subscribe to our newsletter here.Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @LeedsCommFound.

On this episode, Eve Roodhouse (Chief officer of Culture & Economy- Leeds City Council) is joined by Tom Riordan (Chief Executive at Leeds City Council) as they look back over the past year and discuss all the highlights Leeds has experienced in 2021. They also discuss their hopes for 2022, as we look forward to welcoming new inward investments and exciting events.   To submit your favourite highlights from the year or hopes for 2022, follow us on @LeedsIGS on Twitter or @Leedscouncil on Instagram

NAAFI Break with Carl Harrison, former RAF Regiment Gunner, who is trying to help his fellow cap badge in the preparation for the transition from the RAF into civvy street.November 27th will be the first RAF Regiment Networking event at LS-TEN in Leeds. I just want to ask you to encourage as many Rocks, past and present to not only like this post but please share. The event with provide a fantastic opportunity for people to get a real insight into the resettlement process, transition out of military life into a civilian working world. Provided with a range of opportunities. A series of guest speakers sharing their experience.Most importantly an opportunity to catch up with friends, renew contacts and build nee links. The centurion fund have expressed an interest in supporting future events with a view to looking at other locations. I have also had discussions with the Leeds City Council and several other employers about future possibilities. If your planning to attend please comment or send me a DM, alternatively if you can't attend but would be interested in having a zoom link put it in the comments. If not available on this occasion but interested in getting involved in future events please let me know. Carl Harrison Details:RAF Regiment Networking1600-2300 hrsLS-TEN, Hunslet, Leeds, LS10 1NT www.LS-TEN.org #military #networking #opportunity #event #veteran #armedforces #RAFRegiment #Leeds

We are in conversation with Chris Dickinson who is Head of Commissioning for Children and Families at Leeds City Council. A native North American now living and working in the Leeds. I have worked with Chris throughout the COVID19 pandemic in Leeds, very much as a partnership, on the Clinical Extremely Vulnerable people project in the City for them to receive the support and messaging they need. What prompted me to get in touch with Chris was a tweet he published where he was talking about collaborative commissioning. I was keen to understand what he meant by this and to explore how we can all value the contribution made in the city by the 3rd sector. We talk about the commitment to being a child friendly city and reference the children and young people plan which you can read more about from this link https://www.leeds.gov.uk/childfriendlyleeds/Documents/CMT18-022%20Childrens%20and%20YP%20Plan%2018-23.pdf Chris describes 2 Big Questions towards the end of the episode so sit back and enjoy.

Hannah is a public health improvement specialist working at Leeds City Council focussed on older people in the City. Shine Magazine is a new publication from Time to Shine that shares the stories of older people in Leeds. Older people in Leeds have stories to tell. This is the place to tell them. Stories of our lives, memories of our city, stories about how we have coped with adversity in the last few months. Stories to make you laugh, to move you, to make you think. All kinds of stories from all kinds of older people in Leeds. https://timetoshineleeds.org/projects/shine-magazine

#AntiRacismInAction with Shaid Mahmood, Dr Sam Parrett OBE and Mandeep Gill BFELG Livestreams #AntiRacismInAction - Making the Most of an Ethnically Diverse Britain, co-produced by BFELG and FE News was launched today, 4th October, with the first of 9 Episodes.The launch episode was introduced by Shaid Mahmood, Chair of the Association of Colleges (AoC) and Chief Officer Transformation and Change, Leeds City Council who spoke powerfully about what #AntiRacismInAction means to him – personal accountability; common purpose; proactive, conscious, determined effort to tackle racism in all its multidimensional forms, and to eradicate it.Co-anchors Gavin O'Meara (CEO and Head of Digital, FE News), and Robin Landman OBE, BFELG Executive Member were in conversation with the featured Guests, Mandeep Gill, Principal and CEO, Newham Sixth Form College (NewVIc), and Dr Sam Parrett CBE, Group Principal and CEO of London South East Colleges (LSEC). Both CEOs were early signatories to the BFELG ‘Open letter' and both institutions have affiliated with the BFELG. Board Chairs, Stephen Howlett CBE, DL (LSEC) and Martin Rosner (NewVIc), are strong supporters and allies of the BFELG.In a wide ranging conversation, Guests talked about their engagement with the BFELG, the particular Race Equality opportunities and challenges for the FE sector and their respective organisations, and touched on specific FE system leadership actions necessary to make rapid progress.Mandeep Gill touched on why data no longer matters and honesty does. The never-ending cycle of looking at data, getting shocked into action, the data shifting slightly and people patting themselves on the back for a job-well-done, only to come back to the data (often a few years later), getting shocked… is not having impact.Rather than the data, answer honestly the question: are we absolutely confident that we are treating each other fairly and respectfully? If not, then do something about it. A topic of discussion was LSEC's experience of developing a sustainable and long-term diversity and inclusion strategy which has led to the creation of their ‘Enough is Enough – Tackling Racial Inequality' ten-year grants programme. The idea behind this programme is to enable students and staff to develop their own projects, tackling issues that are important to them. The College Group has committed funding over a 10-year period; sufficient time to bring about real, lasting change.

Phil Mellen was the Deputy Director of Children's Services for Leeds City Council.He tells me about having to leave the role, contracting Covid and then long Covid, writing songs and his recording deal.Phil lives in Cheshire, just south of Manchester and answers the three questions I ask every guest. http://www.blacksheeplad.com/https://twitter.com/blacksheepladhttps://soundcloud.com/blacksheepladhttps://blacksheeplad.bandcamp.com/https://www.instagram.com/blacksheeplad/?hl=en-gb

Join Eve Roodhouse (Chief Officer Culture & Economy at Leeds City Council), Shaid Mahmood (Chair of the Luminate Education Group and chief officer for transformation and change at Leeds City Council) and Tracey Dawson (Chair of the Leeds Manufacturing Alliance and Managing Director of electronics manufacturer, Daletech) as they discuss the changing jobs and skills landscape across Leeds. The city needs to remain agile and resilient to ensure we continue to thrive in the face of change and give our businesses and individuals the right skills and support to make this happen.  Find out more about what the city is doing to tackle this challenge, and the hurdles we need to overcome to reach our goal in this episode of our Leeds in Conversation podcast. To join in with the citywide conversation on how we tackle these challenges and create a city owned plan for skills and talent in the city visit - https://futuretalentleeds.org/welcome open until the 29 Sept (with a further conversation running later in the year too!)

Podcast DescriptionFollowing on from Pride Month, in this episode we'll be looking at the landscape in Leeds for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA+) people and will discuss the important work delivered by Community Organisations in supporting these communities across Leeds. In a recent report by the Leeds LGBT+ Mapping Project, which captures the landscape of the LGBTQIA+ Community within Leeds, 82% of respondents said Leeds was an LGBTQIA+ friendly city. The work that goes on within Leeds for their community also allows people to feel part of something larger with a diverse range of activities, support and platforms to raise their voice available, with there being a wide range of steering groups, sports groups, support and social groups also available across the city.We're joined by Cllr Hannah Bithell (@hanbithell on Twitter), Leeds City Council's LGBT+ Champion, Maggie Dawkins from  Leeds LGBT+ Forum  and Susan Phillips from Leeds LGBT+ Consortium two Community Organisations we've had the privilege of supporting. As part of our ongoing work to support LGBTQIA+ communities, we recently launched the Connecting Older LGBT+ People - Micro Fund, in partnership with Leeds Older Peoples Forum, to support older LGBT+ people in Leeds and confront loneliness and social isolation. Learn more about the fund here.A full transcript of the podcast can be found hereLeeds Community Foundation is an organisation that supports thousands of charities across Leeds and surrounding areas, addressing inequalities.  We invest in these groups by distributing grants and sharing advice - acting as a catalyst for positive change.Learn more about Leeds Community Foundation and subscribe to our newsletter. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @LeedsCommFound.Reach out below for LGBTQIA+ Support:https://www.mesmac.co.uk/our-services/leeds/support-social-groups https://www.meetup.com/cities/gb/45/leeds/lgbtq/  

We are joined in this episode by Martin Lee from Active Leeds. This is part of Leeds City Council and is the health and fitness provision for the people of Leeds. Active Leeds has a vision for Leeds... to be the best city to be active in with a mission to be passionate about enabling active and thriving communities and delivering positive experiences through a friendly and supportive team. Active Leeds has two delivery teams, the Facilities Team oversee and support the delivery of the city council leisure centre facilities and all the services and programmes delivered within them. Managing 17 facilities, operating 22 pools and 12 gyms where they deliver a weekly programme of activities including 400 fitness classes and over 9000 private swim lessons, currently catering for over 20 000 health and fitness members. Martin leads the Development Team which has a focus on reducing inactivity and increasing the level of physical activity in Leeds. One of their aims is to reduce health inequalities by working in our most deprived communities and with under-represented groups. Projects that we will hear about include: Leeds Girls Can, We are Undefeatable and Love Yourself.

On this episode, Angela Barnicle (Chief officer of Asset management and regeneration- Leeds City Council) is joined by Dr Matthew Davis (Associate Professor- Leeds University Business School) and Chris Thompson (Founder and Managing Director- CITU) to discuss how the pandemic has accelerated the need to improve infrastructure and ensure a future proof city for health and wellbeing as well as collaboration and shared spaces. They also learn more about the study conducted by Matt on how peoples behaviours are changing towards interactions with their environments and the impact of different office designs when thinking about returning to work. To submit questions for future episodes, follow us on @LeedsIGS on Twitter or @Leedscouncil on Instagram

What is Employment and Skills Leeds? Employment and Skills Leeds is part of Leeds City Council. We work with a range of partners to support you into work, training (including apprenticeships) and education opportunities. The core of our work is supporting local communities, including Leeds's most deprived areas, engaging organisations, schools, colleges and universities and delivering a range of support, careers guidance and employability services. We also work with employers to help recruit, retain and develop a skilled and inclusive workforce and contribute to the city's economic growth, and work with organisations supporting young people who may be NEET (not in employment, education or training) https://employmentskillsleeds.co.uk/

Chris Lloyd was the perfect person to talk to about Red Ladder Theatre Company where is is a producer, the joy and pain of being a Leeds United supporter and much more. "Red Ladder is a radical theatre company with 50 years of history. The company is acknowledged as one of Britain's leading national touring companies producing new theatre, contributing to social change and global justice.  Red Ladder is funded by Arts Council England and by Leeds City Council.Founded in 1968 in London, the company has a colourful history rooted in the radical socialist theatre movement in Britain known as agitprop. Born into an era of riots, demonstrations and revolts, Red Ladder has grown up, kicking and screaming, into the 21st Century, where it continues to fight, to entertain, and to agitate in as equal measures as possible."Mossie sent me their fantastic new track to feature "Time To Shine" links below to buy the track. http://www.redladder.co.uk/https://www.facebook.com/RedLadderTheatre/https://twitter.com/redladder?lang=enhttps://www.instagram.com/redladdertheatrecompany/?hl=enhttps://www.mossieofficial.co.uk/https://www.facebook.com/MossieBand/https://twitter.com/bandmossie?lang=enhttps://www.instagram.com/mossie_official/?hl=enhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0foBftLzBg4BHYbX95Os3khttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAafcmyiIyBBoEv5cYT9_FQ?view_as=subscriber

This is an episode of PCAN, you can find more here (www.climactic.fm/show/pcan-podcast). In episode three we talk to two key players in the PCAN story, Andy Gouldson, Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Leeds, and Polly Cook, Chief Officer for Sustainable Energy and Air Quality from Leeds City Council. Andy set up the independent Leeds Climate Commission in 2017, which works closely with Leeds City Council. The Leeds Commission has led to the formation of ten other climate commissions around the UK, through PCAN, the Place-based Climate Action Network. Andy and Polly have also been instrumental in setting up one of the newest, and largest yet - Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission. Co-hosts Professor John Barry, from Queen's University Belfast, and Kate Lock, from the University of Leeds, talk to them about the thinking behind these novel climate partnerships. Andy discusses some of the ongoing challenges around ensuring the voices of all communities are heard in addressing climate action, and his vision for financial tools that let people invest in a green future for their city. Polly explains the importance of a climate emergency declaration for the day-to-day work of a council, and describes their attempts to communicate hyper-locally, so people can inspire each other to become more sustainable. Find out more about the work of the Place-based Climate Action Network by following us on Twitter @PCANcities or visiting our website: https://www.pcancities.org.uk/ You can follow @Andy_Gouldson, @ElsieC51 (Polly Cook), @ProfJohnBarry and @KlockworksKate on Twitter. Credits Produced and edited by Simon Moore from the University of Leeds. Music by Lloyd Richards. See /listener for privacy information. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is an episode of PCAN, you can find more here (www.climactic.fm/show/pcan-podcast). In episode three we talk to two key players in the PCAN story, Andy Gouldson, Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Leeds, and Polly Cook, Chief Officer for Sustainable Energy and Air Quality from Leeds City Council. Andy set up the independent Leeds Climate Commission in 2017, which works closely with Leeds City Council. The Leeds Commission has led to the formation of ten other climate commissions around the UK, through PCAN, the Place-based Climate Action Network. Andy and Polly have also been instrumental in setting up one of the newest, and largest yet - Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission. Co-hosts Professor John Barry, from Queen's University Belfast, and Kate Lock, from the University of Leeds, talk to them about the thinking behind these novel climate partnerships. Andy discusses some of the ongoing challenges around ensuring the voices of all communities are heard in addressing climate action, and his vision for financial tools that let people invest in a green future for their city. Polly explains the importance of a climate emergency declaration for the day-to-day work of a council, and describes their attempts to communicate hyper-locally, so people can inspire each other to become more sustainable. Find out more about the work of the Place-based Climate Action Network by following us on Twitter @PCANcities or visiting our website: https://www.pcancities.org.uk/ You can follow @Andy_Gouldson, @ElsieC51 (Polly Cook), @ProfJohnBarry and @KlockworksKate on Twitter. Credits Produced and edited by Simon Moore from the University of Leeds. Music by Lloyd Richards. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.climactic.fm/p/support-the-collective/

This is an episode of PCAN, you can find more here (www.climactic.fm/show/pcan-podcast).In episode three we talk to two key players in the PCAN story, Andy Gouldson, Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Leeds, and Polly Cook, Chief Officer for Sustainable Energy and Air Quality from Leeds City Council.Andy set up the independent Leeds Climate Commission in 2017, which works closely with Leeds City Council. The Leeds Commission has led to the formation of ten other climate commissions around the UK, through PCAN, the Place-based Climate Action Network. Andy and Polly have also been instrumental in setting up one of the newest, and largest yet - Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission.Co-hosts Professor John Barry, from Queen's University Belfast, and Kate Lock, from the University of Leeds, talk to them about the thinking behind these novel climate partnerships.Andy discusses some of the ongoing challenges around ensuring the voices of all communities are heard in addressing climate action, and his vision for financial tools that let people invest in a green future for their city.Polly explains the importance of a climate emergency declaration for the day-to-day work of a council, and describes their attempts to communicate hyper-locally, so people can inspire each other to become more sustainable.Find out more about the work of the Place-based Climate Action Network by following us on Twitter @PCANcities or visiting our website: https://www.pcancities.org.uk/You can follow @Andy_Gouldson, @ElsieC51 (Polly Cook), @ProfJohnBarry and @KlockworksKate on Twitter.CreditsProduced and edited by Simon Moore from the University of Leeds.Music by Lloyd Richards.See /listener for privacy information. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is an episode of PCAN, you can find more here (www.climactic.fm/show/pcan-podcast). In episode three we talk to two key players in the PCAN story, Andy Gouldson, Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Leeds, and Polly Cook, Chief Officer for Sustainable Energy and Air Quality from Leeds City Council. Andy set up the independent Leeds Climate Commission in 2017, which works closely with Leeds City Council. The Leeds Commission has led to the formation of ten other climate commissions around the UK, through PCAN, the Place-based Climate Action Network. Andy and Polly have also been instrumental in setting up one of the newest, and largest yet - Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission. Co-hosts Professor John Barry, from Queen's University Belfast, and Kate Lock, from the University of Leeds, talk to them about the thinking behind these novel climate partnerships. Andy discusses some of the ongoing challenges around ensuring the voices of all communities are heard in addressing climate action, and his vision for financial tools that let people invest in a green future for their city. Polly explains the importance of a climate emergency declaration for the day-to-day work of a council, and describes their attempts to communicate hyper-locally, so people can inspire each other to become more sustainable. Find out more about the work of the Place-based Climate Action Network by following us on Twitter @PCANcities or visiting our website: https://www.pcancities.org.uk/ You can follow @Andy_Gouldson, @ElsieC51 (Polly Cook), @ProfJohnBarry and @KlockworksKate on Twitter. Credits Produced and edited by Simon Moore from the University of Leeds. Music by Lloyd Richards. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.climactic.fm/p/support-the-collective/

On this episode, Eve Roodhouse (Chief officer of Culture & Economy- Leeds City Council) is joined by Angela Barnicle (Chief officer of Asset management and regeneration- Leeds City Council) and Martin Hamilton (Director of Leeds Civic Trust) to discuss the changing city scape of Leeds and how our past and heritage are influencing the cities future. Following questions submitted by the public, they share fascinating stories of the history of Leeds and how these are impacting the projects shaping the city today as well as discussing why the city continues to hold such an important role for Leeds as a whole. To submit questions for future episodes, follow us on @LeedsIGS on Twitter or @Leedscouncil on Instagram

Local Care Partnerships (LCPs) is the term used in Leeds to describe our model of joined-up working to deliver local care for local people; working in and with local communities. Local Care Partnerships build on Leeds City Council's strong history, NHS and third sector (community organisations) staff working together. Some meet together due to historical ways of working in that geography. Recognising the city's diversity, they are tailored to local need and the features of that particular community. This podcast aims to create a platform to feature activity happening in Local Care Partnerships hearing the diverse voices of people involved.

This week on Story Time, Steven Dawson from Leeds City Council is sharing his second short story from “Short!” by Kevin Crossley-Holland. This one is called “Who's Who”. We hope you enjoy! #welovereading

Meet two young entrepreneurs living and working in Leeds, and discover some of the support for innovation on offer in the city. Award-winning student Ava Garside reveals how she came up with an air quality badge sensor to help pedestrians find the healthiest routes. Rebecca O'Higgins speaks about developing /ki-ah-na/, facial recognition software that works for all skin colours and genders. They respond to questions from listeners and discuss diversity, sustainable business and the new start-up accelerator BUILD, with Richelle Schuster, Head of Programme Innovation at Leeds City Council. Join the conversation or submit questions for future episodes, via @LeedsIGS on Twitter or @Leedscouncil on Instagram

Today, we have another guest reader from Leeds City Council! In this episode Steven Dawson is sharing the first of two short stories, “Room For One More” by Kevin Crossley-Holland. We hope you enjoy! #welovereading

This week's episode is from another guest reader, Therese O'Sullivan from Leeds City Council, who is sharing "Azzi In Between" by Sarah Garland. We hope you enjoy! #welovereading

In this episode, Connor chats to Tim Goodall of the Green Party, who is running to become a councillor in the Headingley and Hyde Park Ward on Leeds City Council. They discuss how environmentally-friendly policies can be implemented at a local level, the importance of community spirit in the area and how Tim will celebrate if he is elected. Theme Music - Don't You Think That I by J.Lang featuring Mykleanthony

What makes Leeds a great place to start and grow a business? There's an important role for local authorities as Eve Roodhouse Chief Officer Culture and Economy at Leeds City Council tells Liz Barclay.

Mick Ward is a Senior Associate of Nurture Development, an associate of the Health Systems Innovations Lab at London South Bank University and a Trustee of PAFRAS (Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers based in Leeds).   He retired in June 2020 as Chief Officer, Transformation and Innovation, for the Adults and Health Directorate in Leeds City Council. The role focused on Asset Based Community Development, Digital Health, Arts and Well-Being, Service Transformation, Equality, and Innovation in Practice. He is from Leeds and worked for social care at Leeds City Council for 42 years, initially as a Care Assistant, before developing and managing a range of services for disabled people and then moving into commissioning for Adult Social Care, Public Health, Housing Support and the NHS, This developed into an expanded joint role as Deputy Director across the Local Authority and the CCG's in Leeds, leading on commissioning across a wide range of health, care and wellbeing services, before establishing the transformation and innovation role. Mick has a strong commitment to the social model of disability, citizenship, communities, innovation, culture, equality and diversity, and working in partnership. He is a life long Leeds United fan and a member of the board of Marching Out Together – the Leeds United LGBT+ Supporters Group Tweet @mickmodern To hear more from Mick... https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/blog/abcd-practice/proliferation-the-implementation-of-abcd-in-leeds-part-1/ (‘Proliferation' – The implementation of ABCD in Leeds Part 1 - Nurture Development) https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/blog/abcd-practice/proliferation-the-implementation-of-abcd-in-leeds-part-2/ (https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/blog/abcd-practice/proliferation-the-implementation-of-abcd-in-leeds-part-2/) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSeYJX5fImw (Mick Ward: Commissioning Through Influence) Support this podcast

Paul "Wilko" Wilkes remotely connected to tell me about his work as a Digital Inclusion Co-ordinator at Leeds City Council.He also tells me about how he has pushed himself to get out there and perform - you can check out his fantastic featured track "Stalked By A Stranger" at the end of the episode.Richard Hatton produced this episode.Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3buELA1Facebook - http://facebook.com/WilkoWilkesMusicInstagram - http://instagram.com/WilkoWilkesMusicTwitter - http://twitter.com/WilkoWilkesYoutube - http://youtube.com/WilkoWilkesMusicWilkoWilkes.com

In the third episode of this new bi-weekly series, co-hosts Alex Irwin-Hunt and Yessi Bello Perez continue their exploration of the UK's rising start-up ecosystems, stopping off in West Yorkshire's largest city: Leeds.Joining as guests are two prominent members of the Leeds community, Stuart Clarke, the director of Leeds Digital Festival, and Helen Oldham, the founding board director of NorthInvest. With supplementary comments from Eve Roodhouse at Leeds City Council, this episode provides an on-the-ground perspective of the Northern city's growing start-up scene and digital technology sector.Listeners can expect a deep-dive into Leeds' strengths in areas such as medtech and fintech, the city's focus on diversity and inclusion, and how collaboration between Leeds and its neighbouring Northern cities will be crucial to the levelling up agenda. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We take a deep dive on some cases and discuss virtual events and our thoughts on them. Court Judgments of the Week R (oao Client Earth) v Secretary of State BE&IS & Drax Power Limited [2021] EWCA Civ 43 a decision of the Court of Appeal dismissing an appeal from the decision of Holgate J who had dismissed a claim for JR of the decision to grant a DCO for a NSIP for two gas-fired generating units at Drax Power. R (oao Asda Stores Ltd) v Leeds City Council & Commercial Development Project Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 32 a decision of the Court of Appeal dismissing an appeal from the decision of Lieven J who had dismissed a claim for JR of the decision to grant permission for a mixed use retail led development at the former Benyon Centre based on an alleged misinterpretation of NPPF [90]. Parkview Homes Limited v Chichester District Council [2021] EWHC 59 a successful challenge to the grant of permission on an A3 change of use “extension of hours “application via s73 under delegated powers raising amenity/noise issues. A decision of the Secretary of State for Transport dated 19 January 2021, in accordance with the recommendation of the Examining Authority, granting Highways England a DCO to widen the A1 from 3 lanes to 4 between J68 & J65 of the A1 at Gateshead to support future development at the Team Valley Trading Estate Decision of the Week Monkhill Ltd, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government & Anor [2021] EWCA Civ 74 Plus “Praise of the Week” and “Nudge of the Week”

Our Special Guest this week is Stephen Hunt MRTPI, Head of Planning & Development Management, East Riding of Yorkshire Council whose Local Plan won the Planning Award for plan-making. Court Judgments of the Week Ikram v Secretary of State HC&LG & Hussain & others V London Brent BC [2021] EWCA Civ 2 two related decisions of the Court of Appeal dismissing appeals from decisions of Lang J by which she granted a statutory application to quash a planning permission and a claim for judicial review of the decision by the inspector to quash and enforcement notice; issues around the use of an obligation to correct errors made in a decision to grant permission for a mixed use for residential and community centre/place of worship. Finch V Surrey CC, Horse Hill Developments & Secretary of State HC&LG & Friends of the Earth [2020] EWHC 3559 a claim for JR raising the question whether an ES requires an assessment of the greenhouse gases emissions from the use of an end product said to have originated from that development. Decisions of the Week An inspector's decision dated 7 January 2021 dismissing an appeal for 195 C3 homes on St Johns Nursery site in Clacton On Sea against Tendring District Council's refusal, raising issues around highways & impact on character & appearance, applying an ordinary planning balance. An inspector's decision dated 15th January 2021 allowing an appeal for the demolition of 70 ex National Coal Board “Airey houses” made of pre-cast concrete C3 units and erection of 70 new C3 units in Oulton against Leeds City Council's refusal; raising the PSED under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010, viability of refurbishment & repair and impacts on the community & non designated heritage assets. Plus “Praise of the Week” and “Nudge of the Week”

In this final episode for 2020 - Eve Roodhouse (Chief Officer of Economic Development at Leeds City Council) is joined by Sinead Rocks (Managing Director Nations & Regions at Channel 4)  to countdown our top 10 moments for Leeds amongst what has been one of the most challenging and difficult years of all. We hear from Kevin Sinfield on the success of Leeds Rhinos and his amazing work to raise awareness of MND, the team behind #BuyLeeds and Digital Access West Yorkshire on supporting the community as well as a massive thank you to our NHS and key workers for keeping us all safe past, present and future. If listeners have any thoughts on what was discussed in this episode or if they want to join the conversation they can tweet us @LeedsIGS

In January, the government will be doing battle on two fronts: dealing with a likely disruptive end to the Brexit transition period as the UK faces a new trading relationship with the EU while the covid crisis is still raging. Even if the UK government is able to deploy and manage its resources effectively, local authorities and businesses may still be overwhelmed.In this podcast, we will consider how the government should prepare for a difficult January including what the government can learn from its initial pandemic response and previous iterations of no-deal planning.Jill Rutter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government is in conversation with Dame Clare Moriarty, former Permanent Secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Professor Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Kings College London, Tom Riordan, Chief Executive of Leeds City Council, Alex Thomas, Programme Director at the Institute for Government. Audio production by Candice McKenzie#IfGBrexit See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 2000, the band Insense took 1st place in a Leeds City Council competition called Bright Young Things. That night they not only won the competition, but they caught the eye of their soon to be manager, Tim Vigon. This week on the Music and More Podcast Adam and Pete welcome The Music’s manager and biggest fan to take us back to the early days of Bright Young Things, signing the band, touring, Temple Newsam and much more.    

Jasvinder is a survivor of a forced marriage. She is the founder of Karma Nirvana, a national award-winning charity that supports both men and women affected by honour-based abuse and forced marriages. She is a highly acclaimed international speaker and an expert advisor to the courts in matters of child, civil and criminal proceedings, is a chair of domestic homicide reviews and was instrumental in ensuring that all UK police forces are required to improve their understanding of honour-based abuse and forced marriage by inspections conducted by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary. Her memoir ‘Shame’ was a Times Top 10 Bestseller and described in the House of Lords as a ‘political weapon’. Jasvinder is recognized as bringing the issue of forced marriage into the public domain and Prime Minister David Cameron stated that her work ‘turned my head on the issue of forced marriage’. Her work is recognized as being pivotal to the creation of a specific UK forced marriage criminal offense in 2014. Her successful claim of sexual harassment against a peer in the House of Lords was the first in its 479 year history and has already led to an increase in reporting and resulted in significant changes in the House of Lords policy and practice including greater debates and reforms, resulting in a House of Lords independent inquiry into sexual harassment and bullying. She has received numerous awards including the prestigious Woman of the Year 2007. She was made an Honorary Doctor of the University of Derby in 2008. She was awarded The Pride of Britain Award in 2009 and was named Cosmopolitan Ultimate Woman of the Year in 2010. In 2011 she was listed in the Guardian's top 100 Most Inspirational Women in the World and in 2012 received the Global Punjabi Award. She was awarded Commander of the British Empire in 2013 in recognition of her outstanding contribution for the victims of forced marriage and honour-based abuse and in 2014 was awarded Legal Campaigner of the Year. Jasvinder is also listed as an entry in the 2016 edition of the book Who’s Who and in the same year received the International Woman Award for human rights from the Italian media. In 2018 she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Law by De Montfort University, Leicester, Woman of the Year by Leeds City Council and in 2019 she was awarded the Robert Burns Humanitarian of the Year Award and also the Sikh Woman of Substance Award.In this episode we discuss:The difference between forced and arranged marriages What the consequences were for Jasvinder running away at 15 years old and standing up to her mom by not going along with a forced marriage Why women have no say in who they marry What is an honour system, how it works, and why it’s more important than loving and doing what’s best for your child What a caste system is What her life looked like after her family disowned her How guilt, shame, isolation plagued her, and how her sister’s suicide was the turning point to her positive transformation When Jasvinder knew she made the right decision to run away Her life now as a campaigner and advocate to ending forced marriage What are the solutions to ending forced marriage and honour abuseConnect with Jasvinder:Website: www.jasvindersanghera.comNonprofit: www.karmanirvana.org.ukTwitter: @Jas_Sanghera_KNConnect with Ashley:Website: www.ashleyrivard.comInstagram: @ashleydrivard

On this episode James Brining (Artistic Director and CEO of Leeds Playhouse and an Inclusive Growth Strategy Ambassador) is joined by Pamela Johnson (Principal Officer, Culture and Sport, Leeds City Council) and Kully Thiarai (Creative Director, Leeds 2023) to discuss the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on culture in Leeds. They discuss the affect culture and creativity have in people's experience of a city and how important it is in making Leeds the great place it is – to live, to work and to visit. They talk about the Leeds Cultural Strategy and the conversations taking place with communities across the city around the different concepts of ‘culture'; how it links to ‘placemaking' and the plans for Leeds 2023.

Hear from Mick Ward, who recently retired from Leeds City Council as the Chief Officer for Innovation in Adults and Health. But its not Mick's grand title that I found so inspiring; more his determination and activism that runs thorough his career. I found his journey from carer through to his final role inspiring. He certainly values driven and he's not afraid to rock the boat.

In this episode Eve Roodhouse (Chief Officer of Economic Development at Leeds City Council) is joined by Polly Cook (Chief Officer Sustainable Energy & AQ- at Leeds City Council) and Gordon Rogers (Head of Sustainability- Yorkshire Water) to discuss the impacts of climate change across Leeds. They discuss the importance of the Climate emergency declaration back in 2019 and what changes and projects have happened since then across housing, travel and biodiversity. They also reflect on how the pandemic has impacted our climate for the positive, and what ways that has led to changes in how we travel and communicate. If listeners have any thoughts on what was discussed in this episode or if they want to join the conversation they can tweet us @LeedsIGS

This conversation was a lovely one, with the warm, authentic human who happens to be the Chief Executive of Leeds City Council. Its a far ranging discussion about Tom's sense of place, his desire to retain his yorkshire accent and his stellar career.

Our latest episode celebrates Black History Month with three amazing ladies who are members of the Leeds African Communities Trust. Meet Lucy Ndlovu, Abigail Marshall Katung and Kendi Guantai and please have a look at their biographies further below. We explored the idea of the Strong Black Woman; where does it come from? why is it important? what are the positive and negative aspects of it? I found this discussion fascinating as I’m not from that community and wanted to learn more. I also wanted to compare it with the messages that I received from my Latin American cultural background. Biographies Lucy Ndlovu is a researcher and a recent graduate at Leeds Beckett University where she completed an MA in Public Relations and strategic communication. She currently works in the Housing sector in this field. She is interested in the sociocultural model of PR and communication and as a practitioner, Lucy looks at race, gender, class and ethics and how these frame vital discussions within organisations.   Abigail Marshall Katung is a Labour & Cooperative Councillor in Leeds City Council. She’s the Lead Member for BAME, Support Executive Member, Chairs the Strategic Board of FE (14-19)25yrs and the Hate Crime Strategic Board. She is the first African to be elected on to the Leeds Council in May 2019. She is also an England Athletics Coach specialising in sprinting at the Leeds City Athletics Club.   Dr. Kendi Guantai is a public speaker, corporate communications expert, mother and community advocate. In her work, Dr. Guantai is an academic at the Leeds University Business School (LUBS), where she designs and delivers postgraduate courses in Corporate Communication and Public Relations. She is also a trainer on the Goldman Sachs 10K Women’s Project and is currently the Vice President of the International Association for Business Communicators (IABC) - EMENA region. She is also the current President and co-founding trustee of the Leeds African Communities Trust.

On this episode Eve Roodhouse (Chief Officer of Economic Development at Leeds City Council) is joined by Tom Riordan (Chief Executive at Leeds City Council) where they reflect back on the first episode of the podcast and revisit their original expectations for 2020. They discuss the enormous efforts made across the city during the height of the pandemic and what their hopes are for the remainder of the year, focusing on recovery and future growth.

Tom Riordan talks about leadership and his career as a public servant including 5 years as CEO of Yorkshire Forward and 10 years as CEO of Leeds City Council. Mistakes? Proudest achievements - and why they are not on his official Council Bio, Mayors and why they are good and bad, climate, inequalities and what on earth do we do...? Can Kindness really be the answer? Support this podcast

The chief executive of Leeds City Council joined Downtown Chief Executive Frank McKenna in the Downtown Den on Wednesday 3rd June.   Tom Riordan was discussing the city's plan for economic generation and growth post-lockdown, how Leeds is preparing for the arrival of Channel Four and the new devolution deal announced recently by the Chancellor for West Yorkshire.

EG's editor in chief Damian Wild discusses the vision for Leeds – and how football might just help – with Leeds City Council chief executive Tom Riordan

On this episode, Eve Roodhouse (Chief Officer of Economic Development at Leeds City Council) is joined by Jason Tutin (Digital and Learning Development Manager, Leeds Libraries) and Roz Davies (Managing Director, Mhabitat) to discuss the barriers and challenges of being digitally excluded. They explain what is meant by digital exclusion and why it is so important to ensure everyone has access to digital and internet facilities for health and wealth benefits. They also reflect on the ways Covid-19 has increased the digital divide and how business, enterprises and government organisations can help reduce this gap. To join in on the conversation, visit it us twitter @LeedsIGS and use #Linc To find out more about the digital champion initiative, click here- https://digitalinclusionleeds.com/home/digital-champions/ To donate your laptop or tablet- click here https://accesswy.org/donate/

On this episode, Shaid Mahmood (Chief Officer of Communities, Leeds City Council) is joined by Richard Jackson (Chief Officer- Voluntary Action Leeds and Inclusive Growth Strategy ambassador) and Joanna Resnick (Producer, Slung Low) to discuss the enormous efforts from the third sector during the current pandemic. They explain how Voluntary Action Leeds and Leeds City Council came together to deliver help and support to vulnerable communities in response to Covid-19. They also reflect on how wider third sector organisations (particularly Slung Low) responded to the pandemic and the challenges for the third sector beyond Covid-19. *Apologies for the slight audio glitches throughout as we are remotely recording from the speaker's homes during the current lockdown* To join in on the conversation, visit it us twitter @LeedsIGS and use #Linc

Data in active travel is big news right now, and this is our second in a two-part series discussing some of the latest research in the field.When a global pandemic required us to avoid public transport and, ideally, cars, making cycling's usefulness for everyday trips even more apparent, transport authorities needed to know quickly where a network of cycle routes might be built. In a country with no historical cycle network, let alone a current one, this was a challenge.Enter Dr Robin Lovelace, with Dr Joey Talbot, at the University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies, part of a crack team commissioned to work out where cycle lanes could be installed, both in terms of where there's physical space on the roads, and where protected space would be useful for people looking to get cycling for everyday trips.So it was, over four weeks, the Rapid Cycleway Prioritisation Tool started life. Robin and colleagues' open data was added as a layer to Widen My Path, which lets people say where they think local cycling and walking infrastructure is needed in their area. Within the first week and a half this function received 30,000 interactions - perhaps indicating the demand from citizens to get involved in improving their local streets.Robin Lovelace talks about the potential, and the limitations of this new tool, the role it gives citizen activists in shaping cycling and walking policy, and what it was like being part of the project.You can find it, and have a play with the interactive map, here: https://www.cyipt.bike/rapid/And on Widen My Path, here: widenmypath.com TranscriptLaura Laker [00:00:00] Hi and welcome to the active travel podcast. A brand new podcast brought to you by the Active Travel Academy. It's part of the University of Westminster in London and works in collaboration with people from inside and outside the university. I'm Lauren Laker, I writes about cycling and walking as a journalist, and I work with the Active Travel Academy. On this podcast, amongst other projects, we have. Robin. Robin. Robin. Robin Lovelace [00:00:25] We have Robin Lovelace with us for the second half of our two part on data in active travel. Laura Laker [00:00:31] Robin is associate professor of Transport Data Science at the University of Leeds Institute of Transport Studies. Robin is a geographer and environmental scientist by training with expertise in geographical information systems, data analysis and modelling. And that and his knowledge and love of active travel helped him to co-produce the Rapid Cycleway Prioritisation Tool with Dr Jerry Talbot. And he's here to talk to us about that today. Welcome, Robin. Great to have you on the podcast. Robin Lovelace [00:01:05] Hi, Laura. Hi, everyone. Listening. Laura Laker [00:01:08] So podcast time. Has your week been? Robin Lovelace [00:01:11] So far, it's been a good week. It's been a great week because I fell way off my shoulders after this very intense contract with the Department for Transport to develop the rapid cycleway prioritisation tool. And certainly, the infrastructure side of it has to be done in a very tight schedule. But the same is on the research side. We were kind of round the clock to go from a prototype to national deployment in four weeks. So, I think a lot of the COVID-19 response stuff, especially in the medical sector, has been very, very impressive. And I'm so glad that we delivered something that hopefully will be useful. This week, I've got my head down in marking. So, it's gone into a more tranquil routine of working from home. But yeah, I think it's been it's been a good week here in North Leeds, where I am based. Laura Laker [00:02:14] Can you just start by telling us a bit about the ITS Institute for Transport Studies? Robin Lovelace [00:02:20] Yeah, sure. Say ITS is a longstanding research department focused on transport. I think it's one of the longest standing, if not the longest standing in the UK and certainly the largest in terms of postgraduate torts. And we have a long history of engagement with policy makers and doing high impact research. So it very much feels like the place to do transport policy research. It's had a huge influence on transport planning, both in terms of the kind of established motorised transport planning, but increasingly this stuff on transport decarbonisation and active modes, which is what I'm interested in. The other thing I should say is that ITS is part of the University of Leeds and it's quite unique in a way, because it's one of the few universities that's got a really big quantitative geography department and it's also got a transport department. And as someone who's at the interface, it's a good place to be. You've got both sides and they can be kind of mutually reinforcing. Laura Laker [00:03:43] And so at the moment, there's obviously an enormous push for a new kind of infrastructure on our roads in terms of cycling, pop-up cycling lanes and pop-up walking infrastructure. And you've been up to your neck in this project for the last four weeks, it sounds like and it's only really just come out. So what we are here to talk about today is the RCPT, which which is using data to identify roads with the highest cycling potential, which is those that can carry the most cycling trips and those with enough widths to accommodate new protective cycleways. And it's really cool, it's got this interactive map, hasn't it? And it's got different layers, it's got the existing cycleways, which are quite often disconnected, disjointed, mixed quality, and then you've got the top ranked cycleways, which is where the greatest demand for cycling is, a cohesive network, which is where you link them all together; roads with spare lanes and then roads with an estimated width of more than 10 metres. How did you go about doing this? Because it's quite it's quite a task, isn't it? When you look at the maps of the UK and then you zoom in and there's all these different coloured lines that you can click on, it's quite a thing you've produced. Robin Lovelace [00:04:57] Say it. We certainly had a very clear brief. I think it's useful to have general purpose tools to inform transport policy because transport shouldn't be seen in isolation. Modes of travel like walking, cycling, cars, buses shouldn't be seen in isolation. So, in the long term, I'm actually in favour of quite general tools. But the Rapid Cycleway Prioritisation Tool was really developed to tackle a very particular question, which was how to invest most cost effectively, the 250 or part of the 250 million pounds that's part of the emergency active travel fund. And that was only announced, I think maybe it was the 9th of May when this was announced by Grant Shapps and it was suddenly clear the councils needed something on which to base their submissions. I think another bit of background is the fact that new statutory guidance has been created by the Department for Transport to support the COVID-19 response, so it's not just the funding it's also the statutory guidance. And this is quite a big departure from the status quo in terms of transport planning. So for the first time ever, to my knowledge, anyway, the Department for Transport has provided advice on what to do in terms of creating extra space walk in cycling, and it specifically said that there should be road space reallocation and that something hasn't been on the table, so to speak. So most of the tools that I've been involved with are assuming that you are going to build new infrastructure either parallel to or in a separate place from the existing roads, whereas this is very much focused on road space reallocation and it's designed to inform rapid decision making. So rather than this tendency of making tools more complicated, we needed to make to simpler so that people could use it to inform their policies as quickly as possible. So that's the kind of policy context, there's also a bit of an advocacy angle because the first early prototype of the work was done in collaboration with Cycling UK, and we did a sketch up. Well, we did some data analysis of major cities in England and we found that most of them have major roads that have this kind of spare space for cycling. So the idea actually came from an advocacy angle. We did a bit of a description of the methods and the Department for Transport picked up on this and eventually commissioned this research to support that emergency active travel fund. Laura Laker [00:08:17] And it's striking, isn't it, when you look at the maps that you've produced, all of these dark blue lines that you see across different cities that represent the top ranked cycle ways that could be built, and they are everywhere. And like you say, it just allows a council to look at a map of the road that they look after and say, "this blue line is where a cycle way needs to be to get the most people travelling for cycling trips". So, the data behind the maps, that was a mixture of things, wasn't it? Was the propensity to cycle tool, which is another thing that you've worked on, which takes data on which journeys people are doing where, and then kind of works out which of those journeys can be cycled. Robin Lovelace [00:09:05] Yes. So the tool is very much building on the strong foundations of previous work. So essentially there's two main input data sets. One of them is on cycling potential at the road network level. So that is every cyclable road, more or less, across the country has got a level of cycling potential that we have calculated in a great multi-disciplinary and muti-university team, including Rachel Aldred at the University of Westminster, James Woodcock at the University of Cambridge, and Anna Goodman, at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. And that is really important for long term strategic planning. But if you have a very specific need to identify where you've got extra space, to make more space for walking and cycling, you also need data on the infrastructure that you've got in your city. And that's where the other side of the coin, which is the infrastructure side, comes in. And as you say, we worked on a previous project, which is called the Cycling Infrastructure Prioritisation Tool —lots of acronyms! — and that contains estimates of road widths. And then we also took data from Open Street Map that gives you the number of lanes on the roads, according to citizen contributors. We put those three together, and we basically found a way to group together roads to identify continuous sections that may be strong candidates —or at least promising candidates at an early stage in the planning process— to look at to see if they would be feasible for these pop-up interventions. And it was an amazing project because as we were developing the tool, these pop-up cycle ways were going in, and myself and Joey in particular kept an eye on where they were going in and how they were matching with our tool. So it's quite exciting. We could say, "oh! in Jamaica Road, there's been new plans for a Cycle way in London, another one in Bristol..." and we were kind of doing this data analysis on the fly. It was a very exciting time. We also ensured that we had quite close contact with local authorities when we were developing it and also having this kind of vital sense checking. So a good example of this is Wakefield Road in Huddersfield, where one of my colleagues lives near. And he was saying that "I really think that's your tool should be flagging up something here" and we looked at it and basically found a bit of a kind of bug in the algorithm that we changed and then it kind of flagged up that particular road and all other rates that were like it. So compared with the work that we did with Cycling UK, that was only looking at roads on which we had a spare lane. And by that we mean any road where there were at least two lanes of traffic going in one direction. And that means that you can take out an entire lane without affecting the navigable network from the perspective of a car, which makes things simpler from a kind of transport planning perspective, especially if you want to act quickly. But we also added in this additional parameter of width it where we classified roads as having spare width if they were over 10 metres wide, which is probably close to the minimum of what you want your carriage way width if you're going to put in protected cycleways on both sides of the road. So combine those two things, the cycling potential and road width and spare lane data and then use data analysis tools that took some refinement to, firstly groups together road segments into cohesive groups that could form part of a coherent network, and then rank them in terms of cycling potential. And the result, as you say, is now freely available online at cyipt.bike/rapid. Primarily transport planners are using this to inform their thinking about pop-ups. But as we've seen online, anyone can go and just have a look and use that to inform discussions about how to respond to COVID-19 on the transport network and this specific question of how we can create extra space for walking and cycling. Laura Laker [00:14:01] Yeah, and it's it's arguably particularly useful for councils who don't have— some councils have created local cycling walking infrastructure plans, or L.C, which is known, but many haven't. And this is particularly helpful for those ones. If they haven't already gone through this process of saying, well, which roads could have, or would need a bike lane in terms of the trips that people would be doing by bike and then which have got the space so they can just look at it. And you talked about citizen contributions and and a major thing that's part of this is that people can feed into it, can't they? They can get involved via widenmypath.com, they can suggest locations for cycleways and wider pavements and your data feeds into that somehow. Robin Lovelace [00:14:41] Yeah. So there's actually links here to the point made by David David McArthur in the previous podcast series, as he was saying that a big challenge facing researchers and also public transport planners is that a lot of the best data sets that we have are actually licensed in a way that it's difficult even for people who can get access —because you're an academic or because you work for a local authority. It's very difficult to use that data to inform wider debate because I can access ordinance survey data, for example, but if I can't put that out in a tool, it's difficult to inform the decision making process, which as part of the democratic process, has to have many, many different people involved. So that is certainly one of the great things about the tool, because it's primarily based on open street map data, which has an open data licence we could publish the data sets and that allows anyone to do what they want with the data, download it, you can do additional analysis— and I know some local authorities are certainly doing that. Another thing that happened, because it's open data, is that the people behind widenmypath.com, added it as an additional layer into this pre-existing kind of citizen science mapping place. So, where you've got an automatically generated kind of top down approach to planning, which is what we've done in the rapid tool, you can then enrich that data set by looking at what people have got to say on specific roads. So if, for example, you have a more promising route that goes parallel to one of the roads flagged by the tool, but not actually on it, people can say "well actually this would make more sense to have it away from the traffic" and those kind of things are happening at the moment. So, yeah, the open data angle is certainly an important part of what we've done. And in a way, they are the two sides of the same coin that we've got the very much data driven top-down approach. But you also need this bottom-up citizen science approach, and when the two come together, that's quite powerful. And I think local authorities will now have quite a rich evidence base, including other things like cycle counters and obviously engagement with the wider community to inform that decision. So I'm quite hopeful that the infrastructure that goes in as a result of this emergency active travel fund will be quite good and hopefully a bit better, thanks to our tool widenmypath.com. Laura Laker [00:17:31] Yeah, it's fascinating, isn't it? I Remember there's something similar in London, the Strategic Cycling Analysis, and there was some scepticism about it when it first came out. Andrew Gilligan, who is the cycling commissioner of London and is now Boris's cycling advisers, he said, " Well you can see where people want to cycle, just look out the window!" And I wrote an article for The Guardian about his kind of comments and other people's comments on it, but it has actually proven for campaigners, for example, to say, well, these are the top 10 highest unmet demand routes in London and going to their councils and saying this is where you need to be building the cycle routes, and here's the evidence to show why and the kind of impact that that will have. And you said yourself that transparency leads to better decision making, and I guess this citizen science thing is part of it. It allows people to take the data and it comes alive bit more and to play with it and to come up with things. Different people have different expertise. and there's a lot of passion in the cycling community, isn't there? You know, people want to get other people on bikes. They realise how good it is and they kind of want to get involved themselves. And we see a lot of we've got a lot of evidence around why cycling is a good thing and yet not a lot happens. And this is almost another tool in the arsenal, isn't it? And just, you know, the evidence of why it's good, but also where it needs to be built. So you said that you've seen some of that citizen involvement in the tool since it was launched. Have you had some feedback from local authorities? Robin Lovelace [00:18:56] So I certainly fed into the decision-making process because I'm on a kind of citizen advisory group for with Leeds City Council. And it's been really interesting to see how they created this new forum that contains academics and advocates and also councillors. And we've each been able to input ideas and to some extent hold them to account. So just earlier this afternoon, I saw some feedback from someone on that group, that's in open discussion with the Council and they actually had a ride on Kirkstall Road, which is one of the routes that has been flagged up by our tool, and I'm very happy to say has received new segregated cycleway. However, she flagged up that there were still issues with it. Obviously, when you do things very quickly, it's unusual to get things perfect the first-time round. So she sent round photos and said, "yeah, I think this is a problem, there's lots of old leaves in the road here and also parts of the pop-up cycleway are quite narrow" and I've just been looking at the design manual for roads and bridges, which clearly states that the desirable minimum width for cycleways, cycle lanes, which are painted lines, is two metres. But when you have light segregation, which also creates a potential hazard for cycling, even with those ones, the recommended minimum width is 2.5 metres. So I think it's one thing to have strong evidence, but to some extent now are at this stage and we have a lot of good evidence, in most cities there's quite a movement to get these going. The devil will be in the detail and it's the design standards that actually come out. So at this stage, I think to a large extent that citizen engagement is really important. And the ability of local authorities to adapt and to change that designs based on feedback will be key to seeing how used and how high quality these new cycleways are in the long term. So, yeah, I think for most people, probably the best way to get the tool and see everyone else's comment and to get involved is probably through widenmypath.com. Laura Laker [00:21:30] Yeah, it's a nice map, isn't it? You can still go on there and click on it and there's little bicycle symbols and there's little shoe symbols for walking and then there's bits where people are said they need more space. Robin Lovelace [00:21:42] Yeah. And you can type in it. You can kind of go into whatever town you like. And I think the example of Kirkstall Road is, is really shows that the best people to give feedback on a particular piece of infrastructure or or even an infrastructure plan are the people who actually use it day to day. So I would really recommend everyone to take a look and think about what —you know, the great thing about a tool is that you can actually imagine what you would like to have and make suggestions on that. It's also got the update capability so you can look. So rather than duplicating. "Oh, we need a cycleway on this road that would clearly benefit from a cycleway" you can, in addition, kind of update on them. And one of the amazing things is that, yeah, they've had over 30,000 interactions with this map and it's only been up a short while. And I think that shows that there is this really strong latent demand to get involved in transport planning. And to me, it highlights the fact that's quite fundamental, that transport planning is actually part of the democratic decision-making process. It's about the public allocation of resources. So at some level, it must be informed by the citizens. And usually, historically that's been done in quite a narrow and prescribed way, where you put out a consultation and then it's closed and only certain people contribute, whereas this citizen science aspect really broadens it out and allows many more voices to come in and much more diversity of opinion. So that's great. I think the combination of far and objective data—which is our role in this is— is really a powerful combination. But I certainly urge listeners to go out and give it a try, and I've added a couple of comments on there for my area. So, yeah, hopefully local authorities will pick up on this and use it. That's another question. Laura Laker [00:23:54] I guess another thing you can do is flag that to your local councillors. Thirty thousand a week and a half is really an astonishing number. It is so easy to use, isn't it? And I've had these conversations before about the way that we discuss particularly cycling, new cycling routes and often the sort of meetings that are held around and what's going to happen or what's being proposed are held at sort of times when people are young families say are putting kids to bed or that, you know, people with busy lives don't have time to attend meetings in person. And so it does widen it out a bit more and gives people the real benefit— you know, with busy lives, with young kids, maybe— the option to say, well, actually this bit of my street is dangerous, pavement is too narrow, I'd like this two way for cycling or all of those things. It's just super easy, just to click on or like you say, and like other people's comments. And so you can see one comment has like 20 likes or something. And you see you're not the only one that thought that about that particular location. Robin Lovelace [00:24:55] Yeah, and another thing to say is I think the widenmypath.com isn't designed to replace existing structures for engagement. So it would be two use in addition to the usual way of communicating. And that's the same concept with tools such as the Rapid Cycleway Prioritisation Tool and the propensity cycle tool, which our new rapid tool builds on. It's certainly designed to complement, not replace existing processes. And I think at the moment, local authorities have so much to deal with. The fact that there's now a national, will certainly in England, we'd like to extend it to other countries evidence base. That can mean that they can make good rapid decisions based on evidence more quickly. So, yeah, and the more citizens that get involved and kind of try to highlight the evidence to a broader range of people as possible, the better. And I've seen loads of examples. It's been really good just seeing on Twitter, for example, I'm from Hereford and seeing people flagging up cycleways in Gloucester saying, look, this much is the cycle campaign's perception of where you have need for pop-up cycleways and then using that to try and get a debate going in the local authority. So, yeah, I think certainly better decisions can be made when more people are involved and certainly when more evidence is available. I think there is a danger that if there's too much evidence there, it becomes overwhelming. But the good thing about these interfaces is they kind of condense down a lot of information into a map so you can make sense of it all. Laura Laker [00:26:41] Yeah. Now, here's the line on the map. This is where the bike route. This is where you'd be best off building a fast bike route. This is where you need to do more routes to make network. And there is this very simple, isn't it? Robin Lovelace [00:26:51] Yeah. And that's another thing. As academics, we like to always make things more complicated and add features and refine the model. But with the rapid tool, because it had a different purpose, we wanted to say, okay, let's condense all of this information down to literally the top ranked cycleways. And I should say on that you can also rank it not just by cycling potential, but by the continuous length of the road as well. So if your priority is to build slightly longer distance routes, you can also use it to try to find continuous sections. But like with any data driven approach, no data set is perfect, so it's got a number of limitations. Laura Laker [00:27:39] It's not just a short-term thing, obviously. You know, this can keep being used in the long term. There's going to need to be a gradual rollout of ideally of a cycle network across the country, not only in towns, but linking in between. So I guess it could just keep on going. In terms of areas further study, you mentioned you like the idea of general tools. You mean that across different transport modes, not just cycling? Robin Lovelace [00:28:05] Yeah, definitely. So like many areas of government transport planning tends to be a bit compartmentalised and even tribal in some cases. I've seen various examples of local authorities where you have the active travel team that's kind of put in a box and then they don't often talk to the highways people. And then there you've got the the bus people in London,I know, and there's not enough cross mode or communication. And I think that's bad for everyone. So regardless of which mode of transport you use, it's certainly important to have a joined-up network so that public transport connects well to walking and cycling networks say. That's certainly something that I'm aware of and being the lead developer of the propensity to cycle tool, which is just focus on one mode, I'm acutely aware of the need to broaden it out to become more multimode. So that's just the kind of policy need that I've seen. Yeah, and I think like taking into account walking and cycling, like walking is the foundation, I think, of a healthy transport system and ensuring that walking and cycling are kind of taken into account together I think is really important. So that's something that I'd like to look into more in the future. Laura Laker [00:29:37] Yeah. And it doesn't always have to be big things as that. I think one of the most successful investments that the government has made in the last 10 years is is cycle parking at railway stations, something that's like super simple, but just allows people to ride a bike to the commuter train and then get on it. Was there anything else that you wanted to say that you feel like we've skipped over, or not covered yet?Robin Lovelace [00:29:59] Yeah, I think I think it's worth it, because at the beginning I was talking about the tool's focus on cycling potential and this idea of space race. And I think it's worth zooming in a bit on the concept of spare space. I mean, this was developed early on, earlier in the lockdown when road traffic levels hadn't rebounded. They have rebounded a bit. But the evidence that I've seen suggests that they are still below pre COVID-19 levels. And there's also evidence of many people switching to permanent working from home so that the long-term implications for the transport system are still uncertain. And in that context, I think it is good to think about why you might want to focus on road space reallocation in particular. And there's three broad reasons. The first is when you're looking at roads that are big and have this spare space, they tend to be along arterial routes where you've got high potential. Especially in Leeds, there's some key design lines that are very heavily reliant on buses. So if you're aiming to free up capacity on those busy public transport networks, building where there is high latent potential, which tends to be on those big arterial routes, is one reason. The second reason is that the nature of the cycle ways that you construct themselves, say you can build a big cycleway to allow physical distancing on these big roads and cycleways that have been created by reallocating a lane of traffic to cycling. And then finally, it's about the long-term change that you mentioned. This is part of a long, longer aim. And one of the main reasons for developing the tool is that I think should probably soon start to move away from the idea of pop-up cycleways just to new cycle ways. Many of these will become permanent and the better we can design them and the better that we can place them where there is most latent demand, the more chance they will have of being used in the long term. Laura Laker [00:32:28] So, yeah, because the government money, specifically, the 250 million for the emergency active travel fund is the first branch is for pop-up cycle lanes and the second is explicitly for stuff that's going to be longer term. Robin Lovelace [00:32:41] Yeah, exactly. And I think the Overton Window, so to speak, has shifted so that things that weren't necessarily on the table are now being discussed and are actually priorities. And a great example of that is this idea of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and road space reallocation that would not be discussed. pre COVID-19. But to me I think this could be a bit of crossroads in terms of active transport in the UK. And it's really exciting to see it all happening and to have so much evidence, like more evidence than ever before, not only of the benefits of walking and cycling, but where we need to intervene for maximum benefit. And it's certainly exciting to be a small part of that process. Laura Laker [00:33:32] Yeah, certainly in terms of the main roads, there's a reason they are so wide and widely used, because they take people where they want to go. Isn't it? Just as a final thought. And quite often we kind of want to put cycling out of the way. But then I guess there's another argument about whether we want to actually cycle on main roads next to motor traffic, but that's probably another discussion.Robin Lovelace [00:33:51] Yeah, yeah. But no, but I think it is actually relevant to this. When you put in pop-up cycleways, there are ways to change the speed limit through experimental or temporary traffic regulation orders. But also, and this is something that came out of a seminar that we did last week on the tool, which is that when you put in cones or other infrastructure, although the legal speed limit may be unchanged, the design speed changes and drivers do actually respond to infrastructure. And this is something that I see I mean everyone's got their personal kind of dream cycleway. Mine Scott Hall Road in Leeds, which is a big dual carriageway with a 40 mile an hour speed limit. And currently it does not have a cycle way on it. And I just think that reducing that speed limit could do so much. So it's not always just about infrastructure. It's about driver behaviour and a whole range of other things. And this, tool, going back to limitations, it can only do one thing which is kind of flag-up these arterial routes that have got high cycling potential. But you need a very broad range of interventions, I think, including road traffic speed reduction to make the transport networks more friendly for everyone. Laura Laker [00:35:23] Yeah. Great. Thanks, Robin, for coming on. It's great to talk to you. Robin Lovelace [00:35:28] Fantastic. Yeah, thanks for having me. And yeah, I look forward to kind of seeing how this rolls out and maybe even using some of the infrastructure that's going in that will hopefully be informed by the various tools that are going out. Yeah, thanks a lot and just for listeners, check out the widenmypath.com And the tool. And if you're interested in the data side of things, by all means, download the data and we are happy to take any kind of questions on the Website where we developed it, which is github.com/cyipt/ if there's any developers out there who wants to get involved in the technical side of things. Laura Laker [00:36:17] Great. Thanks, Robin. You've been listening to the Active Travel Podcast. You can find us online on our Web site at http://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/podcast/ We own most podcasting hosts and you can follow us on Twitter and Instagram, both at @Active_ATA. Let us know what you think. Drop us a tweet or an email at activetravelacademy@westminster.ac.uk. Thanks for listening. Until next time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children's Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special. In this episode Dr Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children's Social Care, was joined by Steve Walker, Director of Strengthening Families, Protecting Children Improvement Programme at Leeds City Council (@SteveWLeeds). Among other things, Michael and Steve discuss the importance of building strong partnerships with schools, in particular during this time, and the challenge of maintaining practical, professional and emotional support when teams are not physically together. You can find out more about the Strengthening Families, Protecting Children Programme here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/strengthening-families-protecting-children-sfpc-programme https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/research-project/family-valued-model-trial-evaluation/ Steve Walker mentions the Social Workers in Schools project. The final report will be available online soon, but you can read the interim findings here: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/blog/new-project-placing-social-worker-in-schools-shows-early-signs-of-promise/ If you have any questions, comments or suggestions for upcoming topics, please get in touch by emailing info@whatworks-csc.org.uk You can also follow us on Twitter @whatworksCSC

S01 E04 Series 1 Episode 4. This is an archive of live video Q and A's streamed online. In this episode I was delighted to be joined by Eve Roodhouse, Chief Officer for Economic Development. Answering your questions on everything from Business Grants, to Rates Relief, PPE to Testing & Business Support to How we as a region are going to recover from this.

If you aspire to being part of the impending revolution in public services, don't miss out on this podcast. Professor Donna Hall CBE is Chair of Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, and also Integrated Care System Advisor to NHS England, Chair of the New Local Government Network (NLGN) think tank, Professor of Politics at Manchester University, and former Wigan Chief Executive. You can find her on Twitter @profdonnahall. Donna studied Politics and English at the University of Leeds, following which she started her career in Human Resources with Leeds City Council. Since then she has worked in various roles in local government (and briefly in the private, and community and voluntary sectors). Most recently she spent 8 years as Chief Executive of Wigan Council, where the Council developed ‘The Wigan Deal.' Prior to that she was at Chorley, where ‘The Chorley Smile' was a forerunner of The Deal. In 2009 Donna was awarded a CBE for innovation in public services in connection with the DWP ‘Tell Us Once' programme, which allows a person to report a death to all government departments with a single phone call, reducing stress for members of the public at a difficult time. The Wigan Deal started in earnest in 2011, with Wigan Council, the ninth largest metropolitan council in the UK, having to make £160m is savings over an 8-year period. The Institute of Fiscal Studies calculated that proportionately they were the third worst affected Council in the UK in terms of the impact of austerity. Lord Peter Smith, the members of the Council, and the officers realised that a conventional cost cutting approach was not viable. The Council brokered a new deal with its citizens, in which instead of trying to ‘fix' people, the Council sought to nurture their strengths. The Council invested some £13m in grass roots community projects. One of the outcomes was that healthy life expectancy has been improved by seven years in the most deprived parts of the borough, and satisfaction with the Council increased by 50% across the borough. Organisations such as the Kings Fund that have evaluated its success have credited “constancy of purpose” as playing a major role - see ‘The Kings Fund (2019), A Citizen-Led Approach to Health and Care: Lessons from the Wigan Deal', available at https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/default/files/2019-06/A_citizen-led_approach_to_health_and_care_lessons_from_the_Wigan_Deal_summary.pdf (https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/default/files/2019-06/A_citizen-led_approach_to_health_and_care_lessons_from_the_Wigan_Deal_summary.pdf). Last month Donna presented at the NHS England “Leading Change with People and Communities Conference”, which was a sell out in both Manchester and London. She believes that we are on the cusp of a public services revolution in the UK. It's not just The Wigan Deal and similar initiatives, but the coronavirus crisis has illustrated how communities can pull together and how public servants can work with those communities differently. In her own time she chairs The New Local Government Network think tank, which is working with 70 of the most progressive councils and will shortly be working with their first NHS Trust to drive through whole-place, whole-system transformation, and deliver ‘The Community Paradigm': the 1940s saw the emergence of the state paradigm, which was very transactional and top down; in the 1980s the market paradigm sought to address the deficits in the state paradigm; the new “community paradigm… shifts power back to communities.” The Councils engaging with the community paradigm are all political colours. The original thinking came from economist Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize winner in 2009. Whilst Donna says that she can't understand why everyone isn't doing it, she concedes that it takes a different type of political and managerial leadership. It involves giving staff on the front line and residents the permission to innovate. And staff need the skills and courage to engage in human...

Guided by street tree guru Joe Coles, we explore the trees of Leeds, including Woodhouse Ridge, a pocket of urban woodland, some of Leeds' tree-lined streets and the London plane tree in Dortmund Square. Along the way, we meet Justin Williamson, woodland officer for Leeds City Council, and Dr Catherine Scott from Leeds University to chat about how trees affect air quality, urban trees as wildlife corridors, the benefits of green spaces for people and how cities will become part of the new Northern Forest.

Large organisations are often perceived as faceless and emotionless. Tom Riordan, the Chief Executive of Leeds City Council, has bucked this trend in the nine years he has held the […]

Eve Roodhouse is the chief officer for economic development at Leeds City Council where her role covers economic policy, business support, Visit Leeds, Conference Leeds, international relations and inward investment into the city. Her stated goal is to  deliver Leeds City Council’s Inclusive Growth Strategy and to aspire to be a beacon of best practice in supporting economic growth that’s inclusive. Listen on to find out:   Why Eve switched from a successful career in the NHS to working in local government. Why Leeds has an inclusive growth strategy and what that means for the everyday Leeds resident. How the council is helping every business to be more digital. How the council addressing the digital skills gap in both infrastructure and skills. How local employers and universities work together to create an education that fits the modern workplace. How the Digital Festival fits with the council’s inclusive growth strategy. How the festival supports young girls and women in tech. The exciting event that the British Library is doing for the festival. How the festival is now expanding its reach to China and how Leeds is working with MIT in Boston, USA.   You can find out more about Eve on twitter @eveyroo and the Leeds City Council’s growth strategy at http://www.leedsgrowthstrategy.co.uk/. To book tickets for the events go to https://leedsdigitalfestival.org and follow current events on twitter @LeedsDigiFest.

Councillor Judith Blake is the first-ever female Leader of Leeds City council, and Chair of the Core Cities UK city network. Whilst attending the Global Policy North Conference on Brexit, at the University of Leeds, Councillor Blake spoke with Global Policy: Next Generation Deputy Editor Emma Lecavalier about her work on the One Yorkshire Policy, Leeds’ involvement in transnational city networking, and challenges and opportunities facing cities in the North. The interview highlights key areas where devolution could benefit cities in the UK and speculates about the impact that Brexit might have on urban development across the country.

As such he is Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for the Digital Health and Wellbeing Programme for the whole of Leeds, SRO for the 100% Digital Smart Cities Programme as well as providing overall leadership for Leeds City Council's change programmes. Additionally he is accountable for Digital and Information strategy, governance, innovation, policy and assurance for LCC and NHS CCGs. In this podcast, the first of a series, Dylan describes how this wide-ranging role, that includes responsibility for NHS and local authority IT/digital programmes, came about. In future podcasts we will look at how willingness to focus on user needs, and collaborate and share across organisational and professional boundaries, is a key element of Leeds' place-based approach to building a successful and inclusive future city.

Tish Elliot, registered social worker and practice educator, outlines the process of sourcing new information about an individual’s strengths and community assets. She considers the effect this may have on people accessing services and explores the common challenges to strengths-based working. As part of the episode, Mick Ward, Chief Officer of Transformation and Innovation at Leeds City Council provides a summary of asset-based community development and how this works in practice. This is the second in a series of Podcasts to explore the subject of strengths-based conversations.

Please enjoy again: R is for Red Light District   Hi everyone!  Welcome to the A to Z of Sex.  I'm Dr Lori Beth and I am your host.  We are working our way through the erotic alphabet one letter at a time.  Just a reminder this podcast deals with adult content, so if you don't have total privacy, you might want to put on your headphones. Today the letter is R and R is for Redlight District.   A red light district is part of (usually) an urban area where sex work is practiced.  This includes strip clubs, sex shops, prostitutes/escorts and sex shows/theatres.  The term comes from the red light that was usually used as a sign for a brothel.    Some red light districts like in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and in Reeperbahn, Germany are areas where legal and regulated prostitution can take place. Many of these districts were originally formed in an effort to confine prostitution to one part of the city and to make sure that there was some regulation of the prostitutes.   In Japan, and Akasen is a red light district though it is not legal.  The term literally means red line.   The Oxford dictionary has the term first appearing in print in 1894 in a newspaper from Sandusky, Ohio, USA.   It appears the term became more widely spread when used in Dodge City, Kansas to refer to a district that contained a number of houses of prostitution including the Red Light House Saloon.   Some red light districts are monitored by the authorities though not legal and regulated.  Usually authorities are monitoring for child trafficking.  Others are regulated like the Reeperbahn in Hamburg.  This is a mile long area and is world-famous.  There are quite a few places in Thailand that are unofficial red light districts and are monitored.   In the 1950's, the Soho area of London was a well known red light district. Working girls were everywhere in the area.  The area has changed drastically though you still find sex shops, peep shows, and clubs in the area.  The area is now known for it's excellent restaurants, theatres and music venues.   The city of Leeds in the UK now has a red light district where prostitutes are legally allowed to ply their trade.  This was created in the hopes that crime would decrease. There was a 12 month pilot that legalised prostitution in this ares which was made permanent following the murder of a 21 year old prostitute.  Though crime has not disappeared in this area, sex workers are now reporting 60% more crimes to the police and prosecutions are following.   The West Yorkshire police, the Leeds City Council and a variety of support agencies are all behind keeping this area in place and working to make sure that the (mostly) women who are working here are protected.    For Westerners, the most famous red light district is located in Amsterdam in a section called, Der Wallen.  It is said that the district existed in 1200 when Amsterdam was more of a village than a city.    The area is called Der Wallen by the Dutch because it was once completely enclosed in earthen walls.    The area developed in part because of all the trade that was brought into the harbour.  In 1758, Casanova visited the district and there were many tales of his exploits.  In 1905, the prostitutes wore long dresses and sat in front of the houses waiting for customers.  They were known then as Street Daisies.   It was in the 1930's that the famous windows appeared.  This took the place of standing in doorways trying to get customers to enter (which was not legal).  They were allowed to sit in the window with the curtains opened only a little – teasing and exciting the curious to enter.  In the 1960's there were more houses of prostitution.    In 2000, prostitution and brothels were made legal.  But there was a point in the mid-2000's that window prostitution (where the brothel was just one room) was made illegal to discourage trafficking.    In March 2007, there was an open day where for the first time male sex...

I’d always seen Mick around at art openings in Leeds - often dressed more like what you might expect an artist to look like than the Deputy Director of Adults and Health for Leeds City Council. Though we’ve had a few short conversations over the years, it was wonderful to be able to talk much more at length and learn about his many years in social care, his appreciation and integration of artists into it, and his famous Grandfather; but also to talk through his difficult youth, starting work at 16, gaining confidence through trade unions and political activism, and eventually being in a position to influence his beloved Leeds United to become one of the first dementia friendly football clubs, and currently attempting to make them more LGBT+ friendly.Though I’m only in the position to try and get commissions, it was also fascinating to learn about his approach to commissioning with multi million pound budgets and wondering if certain models or methodologies could be applied to artistic commissioning.

The industry has responded with mixed reactions to the Autumn Budget. From business rates and stamp duty changes, to infrastructure investment and that capital gains tax bombshell, there was plenty for the property sector to chew over.   This podcast features analysis from the EG team with:    Bill Hughes, head of real assets at Legal & General Investment Management Ion Fletcher, director of finance at the British Property Federation Eamonn Boylan, chief executive for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Jerry Schurder, head of business rates at Gerald Eve Susan Emmett, head of housing and urban regeneration at Policy Exchange Councillor James Lewis, deputy leader of Leeds City Council

R is for Red Light District   Hi everyone!  Welcome to the A to Z of Sex.  I'm Dr Lori Beth and I am your host.  We are working our way through the erotic alphabet one letter at a time.  Just a reminder this podcast deals with adult content, so if you don't have total privacy, you might want to put on your headphones. Today the letter is R and R is for Redlight District.   A red light district is part of (usually) an urban area where sex work is practiced.  This includes strip clubs, sex shops, prostitutes/escorts and sex shows/theatres.  The term comes from the red light that was usually used as a sign for a brothel.    Some red light districts like in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and in Reeperbahn, Germany are areas where legal and regulated prostitution can take place. Many of these districts were originally formed in an effort to confine prostitution to one part of the city and to make sure that there was some regulation of the prostitutes.   In Japan, and Akasen is a red light district though it is not legal.  The term literally means red line.   The Oxford dictionary has the term first appearing in print in 1894 in a newspaper from Sandusky, Ohio, USA.   It appears the term became more widely spread when used in Dodge City, Kansas to refer to a district that contained a number of houses of prostitution including the Red Light House Saloon.   Some red light districts are monitored by the authorities though not legal and regulated.  Usually authorities are monitoring for child trafficking.  Others are regulated like the Reeperbahn in Hamburg.  This is a mile long area and is world-famous.  There are quite a few places in Thailand that are unofficial red light districts and are monitored.   In the 1950's, the Soho area of London was a well known red light district. Working girls were everywhere in the area.  The area has changed drastically though you still find sex shops, peep shows, and clubs in the area.  The area is now known for it's excellent restaurants, theatres and music venues.   The city of Leeds in the UK now has a red light district where prostitutes are legally allowed to ply their trade.  This was created in the hopes that crime would decrease. There was a 12 month pilot that legalised prostitution in this ares which was made permanent following the murder of a 21 year old prostitute.  Though crime has not disappeared in this area, sex workers are now reporting 60% more crimes to the police and prosecutions are following.   The West Yorkshire police, the Leeds City Council and a variety of support agencies are all behind keeping this area in place and working to make sure that the (mostly) women who are working here are protected.    For Westerners, the most famous red light district is located in Amsterdam in a section called, Der Wallen.  It is said that the district existed in 1200 when Amsterdam was more of a village than a city.    The area is called Der Wallen by the Dutch because it was once completely enclosed in earthen walls.    The area developed in part because of all the trade that was brought into the harbour.  In 1758, Casanova visited the district and there were many tales of his exploits.  In 1905, the prostitutes wore long dresses and sat in front of the houses waiting for customers.  They were known then as Street Daisies.   It was in the 1930's that the famous windows appeared.  This took the place of standing in doorways trying to get customers to enter (which was not legal).  They were allowed to sit in the window with the curtains opened only a little – teasing and exciting the curious to enter.  In the 1960's there were more houses of prostitution.    In 2000, prostitution and brothels were made legal.  But there was a point in the mid-2000's that window prostitution (where the brothel was just one room) was made illegal to discourage trafficking.    In March 2007, there was an open day where for the first time male sex workers stood in the...

Nine years after the last book was published, Harry Potter comes back to life in a brand new stage play by JK Rowling. Henry Hitchings reviews Harry Potter And The Cursed Child.We review listeners' reaction to this morning's debate on the cultural response to Brexit with those who run and fund arts organisations. John Wilson's guests are Victoria Pomery Director of Turner Contemporary in Margate, Fergus Linehan Director of the Edinburgh International Festival, and Councillor Judith Blake Leader of Leeds City Council who are in the process of bidding for European city of culture 2023. Plus, composers Michael Berkeley and Anthony Payne on the world premieres of their large-scale new pieces for the BBC Proms. Presenter : John Wilson Producer : Dymphna Flynn.