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.

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.

A family of 200 Giant African Land Snails are looking for forever homes

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.

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

The Salander Project is the creation of Sissay

Children’s Minister Edward Timpson supports campaign

Did you know you get funding for fostering? Survey reveals all

Rochdale had high percentage of post-care NEET’s