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Greater Manchester Poverty Action (GMPA) supports our network of stakeholders with information and knowledge about poverty, with a strong focus on policy and practice that reduces and prevents poverty.
On this page you can access our latest articles relating to different aspects of poverty, which have all featured in our fortnightly newsletter.
Please get in touch if you would like to submit an article to be considered for inclusion.
Strengthening local welfare provision
Events in March will explore strengthening local welfare provision Local welfare assistance schemes can play a central role in the local safety net, meeting people’s immediate needs and averting deepening hardship and deprivation. Lack of government guidance and support on how schemes should operate means that they have evolved differently…
Making Greater Manchester a Real Living Wage City Region
At the launch event for Living Wage Week 2020 on November 9th, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, called on every sector partner and stakeholders to work towards making Greater Manchester the first Real Living Wage City Region in the UK. He urged businesses, local government, the public sector,…
Mental Wellbeing
Greater Manchester Mental Wellbeing conversation findings published By Charlene Mulhern, Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership Findings from the Greater Manchester Mental Wellbeing conversation have been published with over 4,000 people emphasising what is important for their mental wellbeing. The aim is to use this information to understand what…
Wigan Equalities commitment
Why Wigan Council have made it their own responsibility to consider poverty GMPA is keen for socio-economic duty to be included in equalities legislation and early in 2020, as part of our work in response to the spread of COVID-19, we developed a briefing. Some public bodies, including Wigan Council,…