Attendance at work-orientated courses in Manchester has fallen since the scrapping of the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA), according to figures from the city’s largest college.
Town hall bosses have admitted they “can’t guarantee” that some families will not be left worse off when the council scraps its childcare service. Universal daycare in 14 centres across Manchester will end as soon as September, in the first wave of £11.6m cuts over the next four years.
Rumours of plans to turn Oxford Road’s Kro 2 restaurant into a Tesco have been confirmed with the publishing of a licensing application on Manchester City Council’s website.
Walk-in centres in Ancoats and Wythenshawe are due to close within months, as the council committee responsible for managing the transition from the current health service to the coalition government’s vision of ‘joined-up’ provision, held its first public meeting last week.
Trade unionists, campaign groups and community activists are holding a weekend of conferences, street parties and demonstrations across the city to tackle austerity, unemployment and the arms trade.
Manchester narrowly voted against having a directly elected mayor last night as the Liberal Democrats were reduced to a rump of just nine out of the city’s 96 councillors.
Members of a Moston residents’ group are threatening to take Manchester City Council to court over the decision to allow FC United to build their new stadium on playing fields near their homes.
