Manchester children in fostering due to abuse or neglect hits five-year high
The number of Manchester children in council-arranged foster care due to abuse and neglect is at its highest level in five years, MM can reveal.
All you need is love: Rise in Manchester’s LGBT adopters proves sexuality ‘not a factor’
LGBT parents in Manchester were behind nearly a quarter of the city’s adoption placements last year, according to the agency After Adoption.
LGBT adoption week: Meet Stockport’s FIRST gay couple to foster children
As part of this week’s LGBT Adopting and Fostering Week, MM caught up with the first gay couple to approach Stockport council and gain approval to foster three children following a period of struggle and alienation.
Manchester children in need of adoption face 20% longer wait to find families
Children hoping to find new families across Greater Manchester are facing a 20% longer wait to be adopted than three years ago, according to latest government figures.
Surrogate parents ‘should get minimum wage’… £40,000 for nine months’ work
Surrogacy laws across the UK are ‘woefully inadequate’ meaning surrogate parents are unable to earn the £40K minimum wage they are entitled to, according to Manchester medical and ethics experts.
Bond for life: Manchester father hopes his tale inspires others to adopt
A Manchester father is encouraging others to adopt a child after his own inspiring story has created a bond that is ‘stronger than anything else I have known’.
Manchester’s child protection services branded ‘inadequate’ for putting children at risk
An alarming number of children have been left at risk by Manchester City Council’s child protection services, which have been downgraded to ‘inadequate’ in a damning Ofsted report.
RSPCA hope to home 200 Giant African Land Snail babies… and you don’t even have to shell out
A family of 200 Giant African Land Snails are looking for forever homes