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’s 1,200 foster kids in ‘urgent need’ of carers as shortfall set to rise
More foster carers are needed in Manchester, according to an independent fostering agency who are launching a campaign to reduce the number of children in care this month.
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
‘We did it for the kids’: Wigan family’s emotional fostering story to air on 15,000 Kids And Counting documentary
A groundbreaking Channel 4 documentary 15,000 Kids And Counting is heading to Manchester to focus on a family’s tearful goodbye to their foster children.
‘This story needs to be told’: Manchester poet brings critically acclaimed ‘Refugee Boy’ play to Salford
The Manchester poet and playwright Lemn Sissay has brought his adaption of Benjamin Zephaniah’s 2001 critically acclaimed novel, Refugee Boy, to the Waterside Arts Centre in Salford
Promoting the voice of the voiceless: Manchester poet Lemn Sissay launches art project for care leavers
The Salander Project is the creation of Sissay
Can you give a child a childhood? Minister backs Manchester fostering campaign after personal experience
Children’s Minister Edward Timpson supports campaign
What do you know about fostering? Dramatic carers shortage due to ‘ignorance’, claims Manchester survey
Did you know you get funding for fostering? Survey reveals all
Life after care: Greater Manchester boroughs offer Britain’s best and worst opportunities for teens after adoption
Rochdale had high percentage of post-care NEET’s