{"id":822900,"date":"2026-03-13T11:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/822900\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:25:13","slug":"new-west-leeds-hub-to-boost-health-and-wellbeing-of-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/822900\/","title":{"rendered":"New West Leeds hub to boost health and wellbeing of young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong> By Don Mort,<\/strong> local democracy reporter<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a3925,000 boost for youth services is set to improve the health and well-being\u00a0of young people around the city.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds is one of eight council areas chosen by the government to set up a Youth Futures Hub.<\/p>\n<p>Children aged 10-18 will be supported by the project, which will offer mental health support, careers advice and volunteering opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>A council report said a main hub in West Leeds would be run by community organisation BARCA.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller hubs would be set up in east and south Leeds as part of the city-wide project.<\/p>\n<p>The report said: \u201cThese hubs provide coordinated, youth-led support for 10\u201318-year-olds, improving access to opportunities, well being\u00a0support and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leeds was among the first councils to test out the scheme ahead of it being expanded to 50 hubs nation-wide over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an executive board meeting, Labour\u2019s Helen Hayden praised the work of council officers in setting up the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Coun Hayden, executive member for children and families, said: \u201cTheir determination to make this happen for young people in Leeds is incredible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis programme represents a really opportunity for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report said the scheme was being led nationally by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and supported by the National Youth Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The eight councils to set up the first hubs were classed as having high levels of anti-social behaviour and knife crime.<\/p>\n<p>The report said health professionals would be involved in running the new service.<\/p>\n<p>It said: \u201cDetached and outreach work will reach individuals facing barriers such as safety, poverty or transport issues<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell being-focused environments will promote mental health, resilience and healthy relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councillors voted to accept separate amounts of DCMS funding of \u00a3500,000 and \u00a3425,000.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-18.31.46-638x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164818\"  \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Don Mort, local democracy reporter A \u00a3925,000 boost for youth services is set to improve the health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[236708,748,393,4884,1860,11743,16,15],"class_list":["post-822900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-barca-leeds","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-leeds-city-council","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116221622848393095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}