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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.
‘There’s only so much we can do’: School staff are calling for action to tackle child poverty
By Georgina Burt, Senior Education Policy Officer at Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) In a unique piece of collaborative research, for the first time the whole school workforce (including headteachers, senior leaders, teachers, governors, support staff, admin staff, school business managers, catering teams and facilities managers) were asked about the…
‘No crib for a bed’: 894,000 UK children share a bed or sleep on the floor
By Ivy Mullen, Policy and Research Assistant at Barnardo’s In December we set up an emergency fund at Barnardo’s to help families with the cost-of-living crisis. This was designed to help those struggling to afford essentials with things like food vouchers, winter clothing, or replacing furniture. We were surprised by…
Greater Manchester comes together for Challenge Poverty Week
By Hollie Griss, Communications and Media Officer at GMPA On Monday 16 October, individuals and organisations from across Greater Manchester came together to consider how we can end poverty in our city-region. To kick off Challenge Poverty Week, we organised an all-day event in collaboration with the Greater Manchester Combined…
How can we address health inequalities in ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods?
By Dr Luke Munford, Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at the University of Manchester England, and the UK more broadly, is a deeply unequal country. Health, wealth, and opportunities to thrive differ greatly depending on where we live, work, and play. MPs and local elected officials set-up an All-Party Parliamentary…
Living with Dignity in 2023: the Minimum Income Standard for the UK
By Matt Padley, Co-Director of the Centre for Research and Social Policy at Loughborough University What do people need to live with dignity in the UK today? What kind of living standards do we as a society agree that everyone in the UK should be able to achieve? How can…
GMPA launches new training offer
By Tom Waring, Business Development Executive at GMPA We at Greater Manchester Poverty Action are very excited to share our new training offer with you. What is our new training offer? Through our new training offer, we can share our leading expertise in how best to prevent and reduce poverty. …
Addressing Education and Health Inequity in the North of England
By Mallory Morehead, Programme Manager at the Centre for Applied Education Research and Megan Wood, Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds Children in the North of England experience rates of poverty well above those in the South. Growing up in poverty means children are more likely to experience…
Kellogg’s and GMPA urge nationwide rollout of Money Matters
Our Money Matters debt and benefits advice service in schools has seen local families boost their income by up to £24,000 in a year. Across the UK, an estimated £19 billion worth of benefits goes unclaimed each year, as many find it too complicated or time-consuming to go through the…