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Good Employment Week is an annual week of activities that aims to raise awareness of good employment across the city-region. It is taking place between 19-24 June 2023.
For this inaugural year, the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter are engaging with employees – and asking the question ‘how good is your job?’ through a short, interactive quiz.
AWS and Amazon have announced that they are delivering their first ever Pop-Up Skills Centre in Manchester 19 June - 7 July 2023.
In the latest newsletter, the End Child Poverty Coalition explores its newly launched local child poverty statistics, Just Fair updates on the latest local authority to adopt the socio-economic duty and 
Greater Sport shares new recommendations for enhancing volunteering systems in light of the cost-of-living crisis. There is also a closer look at the local child poverty statistics for Greater Manchester.
Family Hubs are looking for families, parents and carers to help decide on how the new website and brand for the Family Hubs should look.
Family Hubs are a new initiative being developed nationally to ensure services and support for families is better connected. The hubs will be based within communities – ensuring families can easily access the support they need locally.
Family Hubs are inviting parents, carers and family members to tell them more about how they access information for families online, and how this can be improved.
Do you run a Food Bank? Are you noting the same families requiring this help? Do you offer Early Help support?
So many of Manchester’s children, young people and families would have been lost without the amazing provisions through Food Banks.
The aim of Living Well is to transform community mental health services – with greater choice and more control by the people who need support as to what care is available, where to get it and how it is delivered. It seeks to be more inclusive and to encourage people to stay well and active. “Living Well Teams” are made up of a range of partners providing different services that will bridge the gap between GP and community-based services and hospital-based and specialist services.
In the GM Poverty newsletter, Child Poverty Action Group share an update on their research into the cost of going to school and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation explore the idea of a social safety net. There is an update on the Greater Manchester Living Wage Campaign, which includes details of our upcoming event for Good Employment Week in partnership with GMCVO.
Proud 2 b Parents exist to improve the health and wellbeing of LGBT+ parents/carers and their children, whilst reducing health inequalities. Proud 2 b Parents do this by providing effective social 
and support services, whilst championing social change and advocating for the community's needs locally and nationally.
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