Leeds City Council employs about 32,000 people. Our organisation is made up of seven departments (listed below), five of which deliver nearly 500 specialist services to our customers, and two that provide corporate and strategic support services.

With the exception of the Chief Executive's Department, each council department has a director who is ultimately responsible for ensuring that their department delivers on the priorities outlined for their services in the latest Council Plan. They are supported by a departmental management team, made up of chief officers who are responsible for the individual services that make up their department. 

• Chief Executive's Department
  Provides a specific range of corporate and strategic services to the council, including legal and democratic services, procurement, customer services, the Public Private Partnership unit and executive support services such as communications and equality. The Department also includes Leeds Initiative, the city's local strategic partnership, the Connexions West Yorkshire. The Director of Children's Services, Rosemary Archer, also sits within the Chief Executive's Department.
  
  
• City Services Department - Randal Brown, director
  Nine divisions deliver environmental enforcement, highways, catering and cleaning, buildings and facilities management, and transportation services.
  
  
• Corporate Services Department - Alan Gay, director
  Seven divisions deliver financial, audit, human resources and information technology (ICT) related services to the council.
  
  
• Development Department - Jean Dent, director 
  Delivers services in six key areas, including asset management, design services, economic services, planning and development services,  and strategy and policy. 
  
  
• Learning and Leisure Department - John Davies, director 
  Eight divisions deliver services including arts and heritage, libraries, parks and countryside, sport and active recreation, early years, jobs and skills and youth support.
  
  
• Neighbourhoods and Housing Department - Neil Evans, director
  Provides services in community safety, environmental health, area management, property management, as well as strategic housing services.*
  
  
• Social Services Department - Jim Wilson, Chief Social Services Officer
  Delivers social care services based around the specific needs of children and adults. Both adult and children’s service areas contain specialist service areas but in general, Social Services aims to support people to live as independently and as safely as possible in their own homes and communities.

* Responsibility for managing homes owned by Leeds City Council is held by six organisations which are separate from the council, known as arms length management organisations or 'Almos'. Each housing Almo is responsible for council-owned homes in one particular area of Leeds.

In addition, local authority education services in Leeds are managed by Education Leeds, a not-for-profit company, wholly owned by Leeds City Council. The company was established in April 2001 and is a unique partnership between the council and private sector support service company, Capita. The Chief Executive of Education Leeds is Chris Edwards.

The city's strategic partnership group, the Leeds Initiative, is also based within the council, although it brings together a range of partners from the public, private, community and voluntary sectors.