Leeds will be a healthy and caring city for everyone; where together we create the conditions for healthier lives so people who are the poorest improve their health the fastest, and everyone is supported to thrive from early years to later life.
Three goals underpinning this ambition:
- ensuring children have the best start in life in a child-friendly city, where they can enjoy a healthy, happy, friendly and safe childhood, and their right to play, have fun and enjoy nature is championed
- creating a fairer, healthier city where we are reducing mental and physical health inequalities by ensuring everyone has access to the building blocks for good health and to clinical excellence in healthcare services
- building an age-friendly city where people in later life are valued and age well, leading healthy, connected, fulfilling and independent lives
Driving the ambition forward
The Leeds Ambitions are deliberately bold and will be challenging to achieve. No single organisation, including Leeds City Council, can deliver on them alone. To help us achieve this, each of the four Leeds Ambitions will be adopted by a convening organisation or partnership, supported by Leeds City Council.
Delivery partnership - Leeds Health and Wellbeing Board.
Convenor - Sara Munro, Chief Executive of Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Partnerships and strategies
Leeds is made up of a huge number of people, organisations, and partnerships that put health and wellbeing first. Through a range of activity, a real difference is being made on the outcomes of people living and working in the city and surrounding areas.
Key supporting plans and strategies
- Health and Wellbeing Strategy
- Healthy Leeds Plan
- All Age Mental Health Strategy
- Children and Young People’s Plan
- Age Friendly Strategy