In July 2019, Judith Blake, the leader of Leeds City Council, replaced her fellow Labour councillor Anntoinette Bramble as chair of the Local Government Association’s children and young people board. Blake, who has been a councillor since 1996, became the first female leader of Leeds City Council in 2015 after five years as executive member for children. Before politics, she worked in education and social policy, including teaching English to refugees.
Leeds has achieved excellent results in improving outcomes for children in recent years. Do you hope to bring that learning to the role?
We have developed a first class reputation for children’s social care in Leeds. When Labour came back into minority control of the council in 2010 we inherited an “inadequate” rated service. By 2015, we’d improved to “good” and by 2018 had gone to “outstanding” across the board.
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