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Have your say on Manchester City Council’s budget 2022/23

19 Jan 2022 - 14:55 by michelle.foster

manchester city councilManchester City Council is asking for your to help make sure their priorities still reflect Manchester people's.

Manchester City Council won't need to make savings beyond efficiencies already identified but decisions they make now will affect future budgets.

Manchester City Council are also having to consider raising their element of Council Tax.

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GM Poverty Action newsletter 19 January 2022

19 Jan 2022 - 14:53 by michelle.foster

gmpaIn their latest newsletter GM Poverty Action have included details about two jobs they are currently recruiting to, there is information about a British Red Cross report and a Save the Children webinar. Their programmes are also featured with the GM Living Wage campaign gearing up for a busy 2022 and the Tameside Poverty Truth Commission sharing one of the commissioner’s stories.

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GM Poverty Action newsletter 15 December 2021

16 Dec 2021 - 14:06 by michelle.foster

gmpaThe latest GM Poverty Action newsletter looks back at 2021. Cash payments to families in financial crisis, socio-economic duty, the Referral Tool, the Greater Manchester Living Wage Campaign, the Local Authority officers forum, the Tameside Poverty Truth Commission and the Poverty Reference Group.

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GM Poverty Action newsletter 1 December 2021

1 Dec 2021 - 11:05 by michelle.foster

gmpaIn the latest GM Poverty Action newsletter is a report on Living Wage week which was a busy time in Greater Manchester and included some excellent announcements. GMPA is recruiting a Head of Advocacy, Policy and Research. National Energy Action have written an article looking at the winter ahead for those living in fuel poverty and there is a piece by the New Economics Foundation on the Levelling Up agenda focussing on community placemaking.

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Joint statement on Anti Refugee Bill – for signature by organisations in GM

12 Nov 2021 - 13:29 by michelle.foster

petitionThe Government's Nationality and Borders Bill – or Anti Refugee Bill, threatens the biggest overhaul of the UK's asylum and immigration system in 20 years, and fundamentally threatens the right to seek asylum in the UK. The Bill is currently nearing report stage in the House of Commons.

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Have your say on Greater Manchester’s Police and Crime Plan priorities

11 Nov 2021 - 09:24 by michelle.foster

gmcaGreater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has launched a public consultation on the next Greater Manchester Police and Crime Plan, which will set the direction for policing and community safety across the city-region for the next three years.

The public consultation will run until 30 November. Responses to the consultation will be collated and feed into the final version of the next Plan, which will be published in January 2022.

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GM Poverty Action newsletter 20 October 2021

28 Oct 2021 - 14:24 by michelle.foster

gm poverty actionIn the latest GM Poverty Action newsletter the leading article covers the GM Housing Providers new anti-poverty pledges.

You can find out more about socio-economic duty on their website.

There is an update on the GM Living Wage Campaign, information about Green Homes grants and the Booth Centre as well as some job and training opportunities.  

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