Stockport Council is running an initiative to recruit more foster carers for teenagers. The ‘Create Memories and Foster Teenagers’ initiative is running throughout December and includes powerful messages on billboards and buses. Councillor Kevin Dowling, Stockport Council’s Executive Member for Children & Young People, said: “We are committed to recruiting more foster carers in Stockport. […]

Residents have been concerned that the gate to the Gatley Rec playground (at the Co-op end) wasn’t closing automatically. The problem for the Parks people turned out to be that the spring had broken on the gate. Replacing it with one spring wouldn’t have done the job, but two springs would make it too strong, […]

Operation Eagle Eye is launching in Stockport to encourage safe driving. Police and safety officers are going out with school pupils to monitor offences around the school, such as illegal parking, speeding, and failing to wear a seatbelt. Year 6 pupils from Gatley Primary School were out this week monitoring traffic speed on Styal Road. […]

From Stockport Council: Stockport Council has won a much sought after award from the National Apprenticeship Service for being an exemplar employer of apprentices. The Council has shown its commitment to developing young people’s skills through nearly 200 apprenticeships and has won the Regional Apprenticeship Award for Macro Employer of the Year. The Council will […]

From Stockport Council: Stockport’s extraordinary people are to be recognised in the borough’s popular citizen awards. The 6th annual Proud of Stockport awards will see individuals, groups or teams that go out of their way to make the borough a better place, recognised at a ceremony at Stockport Town Hall. The Council, its partners, and […]

Amid all the talk of corporate sponsorship-gone-mad, LOCOG coming down like a tonne of bricks on any business that dares to refer to the Olympics and over-zealous security, we had a great example of what’s good about the Olympics at the Stockport Plaza on Thursday evening as school children from across the Borough came together […]

The Dalai Lama is doing a world tour and is stopping off in Manchester to speak to the 14 – 25 year old youth of the city on Saturday 16th June 2012. The idea is to fill the MEN area with 12,500 young people in a show of unity across the city and promote culture […]

Stockport Council is encouraging young people to come along to an opportunities and jobs fair at Reddish Vale Young People’s Centre on Thursday 24th May, from 11.00am to 3.00pm. The event has been organised by the Council’s Services for Young People and is for Stockport young people aged 16 to 19 who are not in […]

Stockport Council supported the fourth annual International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) on Thursday 17th May. Councillors and employees dressed in the spectrum of colours represented on rainbow flag which symbolises IDAHO. The IDAHO flag was flying from Stockport Town Hall on the day. Councillor Stuart Bodsworth, champion for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender […]

While six out of the ten Greater Manchester councils are missing the target for finding adoptive parents for children placed in care, Stockport comes out top, beating the Government target by 107 days. Stockport is also one of only three Greater Manchester authorities to also meet a second target – placing children with families within […]