We are consulting in order to improve our fostering service and how we communicate it to the public.
Fostering is one of a number of care options that offers children a home when they are unable to live with their birth family. In the UK around 80 per cent of looked after children live with foster families. It involves looking after children with different needs for different periods of time, receiving a weekly foster carer’s allowance.
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Central government funding for councils is reducing. The Council has already made savings of £100 million in recent years while delivering and even improving services for the residents of Stockport. Over the coming years we’ll be faced with further difficult decisions about how to prioritise our spending.
In 2020/21, we need to make savings of £10 million. We want your views on a range of proposals which would contribute £4.2m to this target.
We need your...More
Stockport Council is consulting on proposals to renew the existing Public Space Protection Order promoting responsible dog ownership in the borough.
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The Council’s overall strategic transport ambition is to increase the number of children walking or cycling to school to reduce congestion on roads, improve local air quality, and improve health outcomes. In order for this to be achieved, it is important that walking or cycling to school is a safe option for children and their families. To support this ambition, the Feasibility and Road Safety Team have been working to tackle key concerns which have been raised by schools and local...More
The Council’s overall strategic transport ambition is to increase the number of children walking or cycling to school to reduce congestion on roads, improve local air quality, and improve health outcomes. In order for this to be achieved, it is important that walking or cycling to school is a safe option for children and their families. To support this ambition, the Feasibility and Road Safety Team have been working to tackle key concerns which have been raised by schools and local...More
As a local authority Stockport Council is responsible for the licensing of a wide range gambling premises within the Stockport area, these include casinos, betting shops, bingo premises and gaming centres. The Council has a Gambling Policy which provides a framework around what issues will be considered relevant when determining gambling applications, what standards are expected, and, what action can be taken when things go wrong.
The Council is required by law to review its...More
Stockport Local Authority is the Admission Authority for all Community and Voluntary Controlled schools in Stockport, it administers matters regarding admission arrangements on behalf of the Governig Bodies of all Voluntary Aided schools and Academies in the Borough. Accordingly, Corporate Support Services are undertaking this statutory consultation process with parents and other stakeholders for the whole family of Admission Authorities in Stockport. ...More
The Council’s overall strategic transport ambition is to increase the number of children walking or cycling to school to reduce congestion on roads, improve local air quality, and improve health outcomes. In order for this to be achieved, it is important that walking or cycling to school is a safe option for children and their families. To support this ambition, the Feasibility and Road Safety Team have been working to tackle key concerns which have been raised by schools and local...More
The Active Communities Strategy was launched in 2019 and aims to support Stockport residents to become more active and to enjoy the health, social and environmental benefits of being more active. We are currently refreshing the strategy to make sure it still works for the people of Stockport.
Evidence that physical activity and movement are good for us is undisputed. However, the factors that currently result in a less active lifestyle are complex.
As a...More
Stockport’s hackney carriage trade association have approached the Council and requested the introduction of a prebooked minimum journey fee for Hackney Carriages.
Please see the related documents below to read more about how Private hire and Hackney carriage taxis differ.
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Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Stockport Council have unveiled proposals for a spiral ramp that will provide a unique way to connect Stockport’s new town centre park, located above the future new transport interchange, to the River Mersey.
You can have your say on the ramp during the public consultation which is due to take place between Thursday 6 January and Sunday 6 February 202 2.
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In October 2020, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) undertook a consultation on Active Neighbourhoods, following the initial consultation Heaton Chapel was picked to run an Active Neighbourhood trial.
An Active Neighbourhood is aimed at helping local residents to make short trips by foot, bicycle or public transport which can be achieved through new crossings, new walking and cycling routes and measures to prevent ‘rat-running’, along with a variety of other...More
The Bee Network, unveiled in 2018, is a plan to revolutionise travel across Greater Manchester, making active travel the number one choice for travelling to work, to school and to the shops. But this can only happen if trips by foot or by cycling are a safe and pleasant experience.
The network will be made up of more than 1,800 miles of routes and will be the largest joined-up system of walking and cycling routes in the UK. Once built, the network will better connect every...More
In summer 2020, Stockport Council introduced measures to improve walking and cycling along a 3.3km route of quieter streets between Heaton Chapel and Stockport Town Centre .
This was part of the national Emergency Active Travel Fund (EATF) which enabled local authorities to use temporary interventions to encourage travel on foot or by bike whilst maintaining social distancing and avoiding overcrowding on public transport.
Since the measures have been in place, we...More
In July 2020, the government released new guidance for local authorities to follow on designing high quality, safe cycle infrastructure. The Council is currently reviewing its procedures to ensure it supports this guidance alongside the current legislation in the Equality Act 2010. The Council is also working with its maintenance and design teams to implement these procedures across the borough.
The Council is aware that access controls mean that routes are not accessible for...More
Help us build your new GMP neighbourhood policing team.
We're building a new GMP and this is your once-in-a-generation opportunity to influence how we develop significant improvements to neighbourhood policing in your area.
This is your neighbourhood. We are your police. This is your time to have your say in what we do for you and your community.
Please take just a few minutes to complete this survey. The findings will contribute to our review of neighbourhood policing...More
As part of the borough wide ‘One Stockport’ initiative, Stockport Council introduced a series of traffic calming measures in Gatley and other areas within Stockport. The measures we have implemented are to make the local areas safer for everyone who uses it using the government’s Safe Streets Saves Lives grant.
The Network Management Section received a request from your Local Highway Ward Spokesperson to trial a part road closure on Stonepail Road, Gatley. With the...More
Stockport Council is seeking residents’ views on its School Streets proposals for a short-term trial in Summer 2022 before the school break.
St Josephs School has put itself forward to take part and we’d like your views to help ensure the proposed trial is appropriate and a success.
What is a School Street?
School Streets aim to make the streets around schools safer and healthier for pupils and parents to encourage more people to...More
Stockport Council is seeking residents’ views on its School Streets proposals for a short-term trial in Summer 2022 before the school break.
Adswood School has put itself forward to take part and we’d like your views to help ensure the proposed trial is appropriate and a success.
What is a School Street?
School Streets aim to make the streets around schools safer and healthier for pupils and parents to encourage more people to...More
Stockport Council is seeking residents’ views on its School Streets proposals for a short-term trial in Summer 2022 before the school break.
Bradshaw Hall Primary School has put itself forward to take part and we’d like your views to help ensure the proposed trial is appropriate and a success.
What is a School Street?
School Streets aim to make the streets around schools safer and healthier for pupils and parents to encourage more...More
Stockport Council is seeking residents’ views on its School Streets proposals for a short-term trial in Summer 2022 before the school break.
St Mary's CE Primary School has put itself forward to take part and we’d like your views to help ensure the proposed trial is appropriate and a success.
What is a School Street?
School Streets aim to make the streets around schools safer and healthier for pupils and parents to encourage more...More
Stockport Council is seeking residents’ views on its School Streets proposals for a short-term trial in Summer 2022 before the school break.
St Matthew's Primary School has put itself forward to take part and we’d like your views to help ensure the proposed trial is appropriate and a success.
What is a School Street?
School Streets aim to make the streets around schools safer and healthier for pupils and parents to encourage more...More
Stockport Council is seeking residents’ views on its School Streets proposals for a short-term trial in Summer 2022 before the school break.
Our Lady's Primary School has put itself forward to take part and we’d like your views to help ensure the proposed trial is appropriate and a success.
What is a School Street?
School Streets aim to make the streets around schools safer and healthier for pupils and parents to encourage more...More
Stockport Council is seeking residents’ views on its School Streets proposals for a short-term trial in Summer 2022 before the school break.
Cheadle Primary School has put itself forward to take part and we’d like your views to help ensure the proposed trial is appropriate and a success.
What is a School Street?
School Streets aim to make the streets around schools safer and healthier for pupils and parents to encourage more...More
Stockport Council is seeking residents’ views on its School Streets proposals for a short-term trial in Summer 2022 before the school break.
St John’s Primary School has put itself forward to take part and we’d like your views to help ensure the proposed trial is appropriate and a success.
What is a School Street?
School Streets aim to make the streets around schools safer and healthier for pupils and parents to encourage more...More
In March 2021 the Greater Manchester Independent Inequalities Commission recommended that Greater Manchester should:
Create a Community Wealth Hub to support and grow co-operatives, mutuals, social and community enterprises, staffed by people from the co-operative and community sector who understand the market.
We believe that any Community Wealth Hub should be developed and co-designed with the people and organisations who might benefit from or provide services to the Hub....More
Are you Deaf, deafened or find it hard to hear? Let us know your views on support you want!
Walthew House in Stockport, Bolton Deaf Society and Manchester Deaf Centre are exploring the needs of people who are Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing, and how the centres can best help. Your views will help them shape the type of services they provide and how they are delivered. It will take 10 mins to complete, and you will be entered into a prize draw for the chance to win a £100 High...More
This survey will ask for your views on Greater Manchester's Integrated Care Partnership's five year plan, including what we would like to achieve by working jointly across health, care and beyond and how we can all play a part to make this a reality.
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The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is seeking views on the impacts of the law on joint tenancies on victims of domestic abuse in the social rented sector. We are interested in whether:
perpetrators are using their ability to end a joint tenancy to threaten the victim with homelessness;
victims feel trapped in their joint tenancy with the perpetrator;
the current guidance for social landlords is sufficient to support...More
During the passage of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 concerns were raised relating to removing local connection tests for domestic abuse victims who apply for social housing.
The government wishes to consult on regulations to prevent local authorities applying a local connection to victims of domestic abuse applying for social housing. The consultation will consider the scope of regulations and the circumstances in which the exemption would apply.
The Department for Levelling Up,...More