"Jen Rutherford, Play Strategy Officer for Leeds City Council, works to ensure children's access to play is factored into wider council decisions, and says it is limiting to just think about playgrounds.
"Play is everyone's business across a local authority because it feeds into your waste management strategy, it feeds into how you design your streets and spaces."
"We're working very closely with planning in Leeds on how we can make it so that developers when they're building new spaces in our city are focusing on children and young people and are designing through that lens of play as well."
Back on Colenso Mount, ten-year-old Mohamed is hoping he gets the chance to play football in the street with his friends again soon."
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