Education Leeds has been running education in the city since 2001, but councillors at a meeting of the council's executive board decided to terminate its contract and create an integrated in-house children's social services and education department.
The move comes amid a period of turmoil for the council's children's services team, which received an inadequate rating from Ofsted last year for its safeguarding services.
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