Cookies on Kirklees.gov.uk

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best possible experience on our website. You can change your cookie settings at any time.

Please note our website will work without cookies, but you will lose some features and functionality if you choose to disable cookies.

For more information see our cookies policy.

I accept cookies I do not accept cookies

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to enable you to move about the site or to provide certain features you have requested.

Advertising cookies

We do not use any behavioural or advertising cookies on the Kirklees Council website.

Skip to content
  • Kirklees Council
  • Services
  • My accounts
  • A to Z
  • Services
    • Adult social care and health
    • Bins and recycling
    • Births, deaths and marriages
    • Business and economy
    • Children and families
    • Communities and volunteering
    • Connecting Kirklees
    • Council and democracy
    • Council tax and benefits
    • Crime and safety
    • Digital inclusion and accessibility
    • Housing and homelessness
    • Jobs and training
    • Leisure and culture
    • Licensing
    • Partners and professionals
    • Planning and development
    • Schools, education and childcare
    • Emergency contacts
    • A to Z of services
    • Make a payment
    • Report it
    • Adult social care and health
    • Bins and recycling
    • Births, deaths and marriages
    • Business and economy
    • Children and families
    • Communities and volunteering
    • Council and democracy
    • Council tax and benefits
    • Crime and safety
    • Digital inclusion and accessibility
    • Housing and homelessness
    • Jobs and training
    • Leisure and culture
    • Licensing
    • Partners and professionals
    • Planning and development
    • Schools and education
    • Transport, roads and parking
    • Emergency contacts
Council and democracy
  • Council Plan
  • Council Plan 2025/26 menu
  • Working in partnership
    • Aspire and achieve
    • Best start
    • Clean and green
    • Efficient and effective
    • Independent
    • Safe and cohesive
    • Shaped by people
    • Sustainable economy
    • Well
  • Our Council Priorities
  • How we do things
  • Council plan 2025/26

Best start


  • Home
  • Council and democracy
  • Policies and strategies
  • Council Plan 2025/26
  • Working in partnership

Children have the best start in life

Children and an adult enjoying themselves while playing with things on a table

Our shared day-to-day focus

  • Confident children ready to do well at school and in life.
  • Better outcomes for vulnerable children.
  • Child-focused activities that support families.
  • As many children as possible staying with their families.

Tracking our shared impact:

  • healthy birth weight
  • school readiness
  • children in poverty
  • emotional wellbeing at age 13-14 years.

Was this information useful?

We'd like your feedback to improve the Kirklees Council website and the information we provide.

Kirklees Council

  • Contact us
  • Emergency contacts
  • Complaints

Standards

  • Website standards and guidance
  • Accessibility statement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies Policy
  • How we use your data
  • Disclaimer and copyright

Digital Kirklees

  • My Kirklees Account
Digital Kirklees logo

Social

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Nextdoor
  • LinkedIn
  • Get email alerts
© Kirklees Council

Security warning

It looks like you're using an old, insecure browser that we no longer support.

In order to continue using secure areas of this website to do things like paying your council tax bill and searching for jobs you'll need to do one of the following:

  • upgrade to a newer, more secure web browser, or
  • change the security settings in your current web browser.
×