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Who Cares

Who Cares? If you knew more about the lives of young carers – you would

By Conrad Bower | December 4, 2021Features

The award-winning play documenting the lives of young carers in Salford returned to The Lowry.

The Meteor spoke to the playwright of Who Cares and Salford Carers’ Service about their campaign to improve the lives of the multitude of hidden young carers across the UK providing round the clock care to family members.

The book - No Fixed Abode: life and death amongst the UK’s forgotten homeless - on a sleeping bag

Reversing society’s dehumanisation of the homeless, McClenaghan brings to life the hundreds of homeless dying on our streets every year

By Conrad Bower | October 18, 2020Culture

An early and lonely death is the ultimate fate for many at the sharpest end of the housing and homelessness crisis. Maeve McClenaghan’s No Fixed Abode documents how the first count of homeless deaths in the UK was created and brings to life the stories of those that died.

Cartoons depicting mutual aid

Mutual aid groups have been a lifeline to many – should they continue post-pandemic?

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | October 8, 2020Features

The pandemic lockdown saw communities banding together to provide support for the vulnerable, filling the gaps to support left by a slow to act state. Mutual aiders describe the challenges they face providing help during the Covid-19 crisis.

Universal Credit hits all time low as food bank use in Greater Manchester soars

By Alex King | November 21, 2019News

Social security payments, such as Universal Credit, are at an all time low, says report by IPPR think tank. Local campaign groups GM Poverty action and GM Unite Community comment on the situation. IPPR offer solution of an emergency funding package that they calculate would benefit those in need more, and cost the public purse […]

Peterloo

The Peterloo Memorial shows a shameful lack of solidarity with the disabled community

By Guest Writer | June 5, 2019Opinion

This year is the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre. Around 70,000 people gathered peacefully in St Peter’s Field, Manchester, calling for the right to vote so that marginalised communities across England could have a say in who represented them in parliament. Representatives that could fight for the rights of the marginalised and reduce the […]

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