Giving new Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget “six out of ten”, GM Mayor Andy Burnham has expressed concerns that the budget was “a little high on rhetoric and a little bit low on delivery”.

A homelessness charity’s CEO has stated that Manchester’s lack of public toilets is not simply a dignity issue for rough sleepers, but crucially a drugs-related one.

It has been revealed by the Manchester Evening News that a shelter under Andy Burnham’s ‘Bed Every Night’ is to be relocated due to complaints relating to needles being found near the area.

You don’t have to be a statistician to know homelessness is rising in Manchester.

Danny now works as a ‘Homeless Tour Guide’ of Manchester for the social enterprise, Invisible Cities.

Andy Burnham has already spent the last few months working on his own measures to tackle the problem, including the extension of his flagship ‘Bed Every Night’ scheme until at least next June.

Every day people are seen sleeping in doorways, at entrances to shopping complexes and begging for money from passers-by. Living this way is clearly distressing and not a pleasant way of life.

The scheme intends to provide the homeless population with habitable accommodation at night to keep them safe from fatal temperatures which have already led to two recorded deaths in the previous weekend.

Workspace Design & Build have become the first official partner of the campaign, which donates all proceeds to the Mayor of Greater Manchester’s Homelessness fund.

St Ann’s Square is now the home to a life-size statue of a homeless Jesus sleeping.

Spencer Kay has a passion for looking after people, perhaps his studies as a nurse naturally imply this, but it goes further than that.