Council services Leeds City Council




1 council services

1.1 education leeds
1.2 housing
1.3 west yorkshire joint services
1.4 ict
1.5 data protection





council services

leeds city council responsible providing statutory local authority services in leeds, except provides jointly in conjunction other west yorkshire authorities. includes education, housing, planning, transport , highways, social services, libraries, leisure , recreation, waste collection, waste disposal, environmental health , revenue collection. council 1 of largest employers in west yorkshire, around 33,000 employees. summer of 2016, leeds city council have plans create biggest skateboarding park in europe. location in hyde park.


education leeds

education leeds set in 2001 non-profit making company wholly owned leeds city council provide education support services council. first 5 years operated public-private partnership between council , capita. senior councillors of council s executive board voted in march 2010 stop using education leeds provide services 31 march 2011, thereby causing cease operation.


housing

until 1 october 2013, leeds city council s housing stock managed , operated 3 arms length management organisations (almos) since 2007. wholly owned council operated autonomous , self-governing organisations. almos, arranged on regional basis were:



east north east homes
west north west homes
aire valley homes

as of 1 october 2013, almos returned leeds city council , management of council housing stock became responsibility of housing leeds. @ point, almos ceased exist.


management of more 2000 homes in belle isle carried out belle isle tenant management organisation, largest tenant management organisation in uk outside london.


west yorkshire joint services

west yorkshire joint services provides services 5 district local authorities in west yorkshire (leeds, bradford, calderdale, kirklees , wakefield) in areas of archaeology, archives, ecology, materials testing, public analyst, , trading standards.


ict

in september 2012 council announced intention introduce bring own device policy part of cost saving measures.


data protection

in 2012 council fined £95,000 information commissioner s office (ico) after sent confidential , sensitive information child in care wrong recipient. commenting on leeds , other authorities had made similar data protection breaches, ico said far easy consider these breaches simple human error. reality caused councils treating sensitive personal data in same routine way deal more general correspondence. far in these cases, councils not appear have acknowledged data handling real people, , more vulnerable members of society.








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