EVEN before the Covid-19 pandemic, Manchester was ‘on the verge of declaring a public health emergency’ of its own.
“We’re in some of the worst league tables for some of the wrong reasons,” the city’s leader says.
Manchester had not yet been hit by the virus, but its population was already facing a dire outlook - limited lifespan, children living in poverty and too many deaths from serious illnesses. Three years on, those problems have only become more pressing.
Despite being a ‘world-class city’, a man born in affluent Manchester can expect to live eight years longer than a man born in the most disadvantaged areas.
For women, that gap is six years. Some 42 per cent of children - 46,269 - live in poverty and one in three do not have sufficiently developed speech before starting school. And when they get older, poverty and the ill health which follows can severely limit their employment opportunities.
Now Manchester is taking a bold risk. In an exclusive interview with the Manchester Evening News, council leader Bev Craig says the town hall, along with a host of other organisations across the city, is ‘putting its money where its mouth is’.
Together, the council, the NHS, social and financial institutions, businesses and voluntary and community groups are launching a colossal plan to tackle inequality and prevent these deaths - and Manchester is not waiting for Westminster’s permission.
Leaders have launched the ‘Making Manchester Fairer’ plan. The radical proposals are set to unfold over the next five years, but town hall chiefs are hoping to make it last a lifetime.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة March 19, 2023 من MEN on Sunday.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك ? تسجيل الدخول
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة March 19, 2023 من MEN on Sunday.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك? تسجيل الدخول
Turnout down for mayoral elections
ANDY BURNHAM and his mayoral Labour counterparts in West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Liverpool City Region were re-elected with thumping majorities last week and used their platforms to hammer under-fire Rishi Sunak.
The route of the problem
News on Metrolink expansion could be announced soon... but will Stockport finally get tram service - and where?
Staff's anger as home-working scheme is axed
STAFF at JD Sports' HQ say they have been left furious following an announcement of a full return to office working.
This week I found myself in line at the local foodbank
Struggle to get by for victim of 'appalling miscarriage of justice'
Grrrowth industry
Booming dog business set to expand
SOAP WARS
TV favourites will battle it out at Manchester awards night
'There's nothing left at the end of the month'
Plight of almost a quarter of a million people in Greater Manchester who are 'living in the red'
Birthday love for Corrie Sal
CORONATION Street star Vicky Myers shared her love for her co-star as she helped celebrate her 43rd birthday.
CHURCH'S PRAYERS ANSWERED
A CHURCH shaken to its foundations by motorway traffic is no longer on the road to ruin.
Rebuild talks as fire-ravaged leisure centre to be bulldozed
Staff redeployed to other sites after suspected arson attack