Unsupervised minors and inaccurate attendance data at Leeds Festival
Leeds City Council received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 19 Jan 2021 and 21 Aug 2023.
They came from 1 coroner. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“Young people aged 16-17 are admitted to the Leeds Festival without any adult supervision.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Leeds City Council responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
“Our Clients will host and participate in a Festival S-Map Group which is to hold its first meeting on 28 April 2021. This will be a working group hosted by Festival Republic, including Registered Office - 45 Union Road, New Mills, High Peak, SK22 3EL Registered Number - 13223887 This company is not authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority representatives from Festival Republic, Leeds City Council, Reading Borough Council, the Police, Forward Leeds and a leading Child Clinician.”
Stated timescale: 28 April 2021
- 2 years 7 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
“Neither the organiser of the festival (Festival Republic) nor Leeds City Council which licenced the event had accurate information about the number of people under 18 who were attending the festival.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:festivalLeedspeople
Leeds City Council responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Leeds City Council
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2021 → 2023David Celino2 years 7 months after Anya Buckley · same coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight risks to under‑18 attendees at the Leeds Festival due to insufficient safeguards. The earlier report stresses lack of adult supervision; the later report stresses lack of accurate data on how many minors are present.
Anya Buckley · 19 Jan 2021
“Young people aged 16-17 are admitted to the Leeds Festival without any adult supervision.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ David Celino · 21 Aug 2023
“Neither the organiser of the festival (Festival Republic) nor Leeds City Council which licenced the event had accurate information about the number of people under 18 who were attending the festival.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“Our Clients will host and participate in a Festival S-Map Group which is to hold its first meeting on 28 April 2021. This will be a working group hosted by Festival Republic, including Registered Office - 45 Union Road, New Mills, High Peak, SK22 3EL Registered Number - 13223887 This company is not authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority representatives from Festival Republic, Leeds City Council, Reading Borough Council, the Police, Forward Leeds and a leading Child Clinician.”
Stated action · timescale: 28 April 2021
“Our Clients will host and participate in a Festival S-Map Group which is to hold its first meeting on 28 April 2021. This will be a working group hosted by Festival Republic, including Registered Office - 45 Union Road, New Mills, High Peak, SK22 3EL Registered Number - 13223887 This company is not authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority representatives from Festival Republic, Leeds City Council, Reading Borough Council, the Police, Forward Leeds and a leading Child Clinician.”
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- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Leeds City Council at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 → 2023 | 0.69 | 0.12 | Closely related · 0.90 | same |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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